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◼   ► you're a nerd I think that's yeah Wow

◼   ► are you just realizing this now is this

◼   ► is this new no no it's not it's not it's

◼   ► definitely not new but I didn't I I I

◼   ► thought I had the most digits in my

◼   ► brain and it was hardly any okay

◼   ► honestly compared to other nerds I'm

◼   ► hardly any oh yeah that's like nerds can

◼   ► go pretty far I just thought I would win

◼   ► digits over you but I don't have any at

◼   ► all I need to turn around and start

◼   ► memorizing yeah fail we are talking

◼   ► about pi not on pi day not it's not pi

◼   ► day which i think is kind of BS e yeah I

◼   ► don't want to pile on the pi day right

◼   ► with my PI urban mode

◼   ► we're being innovators our innovators

◼   ► anyway so yeah we're gonna talk about

◼   ► pies because this is the pie season it's

◼   ► really in his pies I mean you can make

◼   ► pies pretty much any time you want but

◼   ► it does feel like they are you know

◼   ► along with other indulgent and dessert

◼   ► foods it seems like pies are seemingly

◼   ► more permitted and more socially

◼   ► acceptable and and for some reason you

◼   ► consider them like oh I have to ignore

◼   ► all health and reasonability for this

◼   ► month or whatever piece of pie right

◼   ► exactly and pie for breakfast after you

◼   ► know because you eat leftover pie

◼   ► obviously and but I always find it

◼   ► strange that holiday season is for pies

◼   ► but most fruit pies are best in the

◼   ► summertime because you have the fruit

◼   ► available yeah that is kind of weird

◼   ► isn't it right but like you I think of

◼   ► pie like making pie for the holiday but

◼   ► I guess like you make apple pie and

◼   ► pumpkin pie and like holiday pie anyway

◼   ► so yeah we're talking about pies we're

◼   ► go we're not eating them right now we

◼   ► don't have 14 pies in front of us that

◼   ► we're gonna taste we're gonna test all

◼   ► these pies actually but for one of these

◼   ► it's kind of oh but one of your

◼   ► birthday's I had that key lime pie party

◼   ► yeah and we have all different key lime

◼   ► pies and if anyone was like what should

◼   ► I bring I'm like bring a key lime pie

◼   ► and so we had a lot of different key

◼   ► lime pies to try that was awesome that

◼   ► was a really fun party I like a good

◼   ► theme yeah can I say

◼   ► turns out my key lime pie was the best

◼   ► pie who knew who knew we knew Arthur

◼   ► Arthur knew anyway so I thought it was

◼   ► actually I had some trouble deciding

◼   ► what counts as a pie so everything

◼   ► counts as a pie that's kind of yeah

◼   ► that's I was gonna lean towards a more

◼   ► permissive attitude here well that's

◼   ► what wikipedia says you should see some

◼   ► of the things they were counting

◼   ► empanadas as pies wells okay so if you

◼   ► go into finishin it's like a hand pie

◼   ► suggestions like I think the British

◼   ► definition of pie is much more broad

◼   ► than the American definition of pie no

◼   ► because we call those things hand pies

◼   ► also sort of but if you ask most

◼   ► Americans yeah I think most Americans

◼   ► don't know what mincemeat pies or hand

◼   ► pies are are you kidding anyone who is a

◼   ► relative of an immigrant of some sort

◼   ► has definitely heard of various I guess

◼   ► that fringe pies you would say because I

◼   ► don't know my grandpa is made meat pies

◼   ► yeah they were like Italian meat pies

◼   ► they waited thirty forty pounds I don't

◼   ► know yeah you just like put like a whole

◼   ► bunch of entire animals in a tray yeah

◼   ► and like but all the salted meat animals

◼   ► from the Italian you know butcher shop

◼   ► so you have various salted meat log

◼   ► animals that go in there exactly but

◼   ► yeah he made those things that's like a

◼   ► meat pie yeah yep all right I guess we

◼   ► should dive into this we should so do

◼   ► you have any honorable mentions I do

◼   ► actually I have two okay

◼   ► I do too all right well but it's a whole

◼   ► category well that's fair because yeah

◼   ► III think the definition of pie here is

◼   ► so broad and and on that note my first

◼   ► honor mention is chicken pot pie whoa

◼   ► honorable mention yeah because if I want

◼   ► pie chances are I don't want chicken pot

◼   ► pie however I do want chicken pot pie

◼   ► well if you want dessert you don't want

◼   ► that however can you just buy again

◼   ► because I really like that when you save

◼   ► up chicken pot pie is really good

◼   ► the best day yes I love my needs I don't

◼   ► know why I think that the word potpies

◼   ► and Marco refuses to say it for me I

◼   ► don't know why because he's holding yeah

◼   ► because you care so much about this one

◼   ► weird word for some reason anyway say it

◼   ► so I think chicken pot pies are amazing

◼   ► I we've had a couple other kinds of pot

◼   ► pies but none of them are as good I

◼   ► think if you're going to talk about pot

◼   ► pies chicken pot pies or the pot pies to

◼   ► be pot pies so like that's day

◼   ► those are great and they definitely

◼   ► deserve a list a spot in any pie list

◼   ► even though they are not desserts and

◼   ► when Americans think pie they think

◼   ► dessert but I think you can't you can't

◼   ► ignore the wonderful wonderful

◼   ► everything about chicken pot pie chicken

◼   ► pot pie is my number two I'm so sorry I

◼   ► was so worried that you would get mad

◼   ► that I included it yeah it's a pie it's

◼   ► it's pot pie like it's a pie it looks

◼   ► like a pie it tastes like a pie it has

◼   ► crust that's made exactly the same as a

◼   ► sweet pie and we didn't say this is like

◼   ► top for sweet pies top for savory pies

◼   ► top for pies like period like three

◼   ► point one four point three point period

◼   ► that's how most decimals have two

◼   ► periods alright so what is your first

◼   ► honorable mention my honorable mention I

◼   ► only have one it's a whole category it

◼   ► is the quiche that's why you know I

◼   ► didn't think about quiches it is kind of

◼   ► like an egg pie right yeah I crust right

◼   ► and it has there are other various

◼   ► breakfast tea egg concoctions that do

◼   ► not have a crust and I would not

◼   ► consider those pies but a quiche is on

◼   ► is on the border and we have a table is

◼   ► not a pie frittata in the rest yeah so

◼   ► the only reason that quiche is a

◼   ► honorable mention and not on the list is

◼   ► because it doesn't have pie in the name

◼   ► like a pot pie so I felt a little bit

◼   ► strange putting it into my pie top for

◼   ► well but I think if you look at the

◼   ► construction in the ingredient I mean

◼   ► they're like the ingredients are not

◼   ► that different from like a custard pie

◼   ► you have milk cream butter and some

◼   ► flavoring things in it like that's

◼   ► cheese the eggs and eggs do yeah and

◼   ► like so you have eggs yeah yes but like

◼   ► that that's many of the same ingredient

◼   ► as a custard pie that you know

◼   ► differently prepared and differently

◼   ► seasoned probably and with different

◼   ► flavor profiles that you're going for

◼   ► but a quiche is like a well-made quiche

◼   ► is I would I would call that a pie by

◼   ► any reasonable definition quiche is one

◼   ► of my favorite breakfasts or meals in

◼   ► general I just love a good quiche it's

◼   ► quite good carmelize onion

◼   ► oh yeah yeah what goat cheese that's a

◼   ► very subtle pick mm-hmm all right my my

◼   ► other on would mention is oreo

◼   ► cheesecake wait is cheesecake up hi-c I

◼   ► thought about this but I think I don't

◼   ► think no I don't think cheesecakes or

◼   ► pies well so why not I'm curious okay

◼   ► cuz it doesn't have a crust her toes

◼   ► no it doesn't it doesn't have that kind

◼   ► of crust it doesn't have like a I've

◼   ► constructed this crust it's like crumbly

◼   ► cookie crust that is packed down it's

◼   ► not up the sides usually you're right it

◼   ► isn't usually up the sides however I

◼   ► would say that the that the crust being

◼   ► packed down made of like crumbly stuff

◼   ► there's lots of pies where they have

◼   ► graham crackers or Oreos as as a crushed

◼   ► down crust like I don't think it needs

◼   ► to be a baked pastry crust for it to

◼   ► count as a pie but a graham cracker

◼   ► crust is a baked pastry crust if you do

◼   ► it right well you can actually bake the

◼   ► graham cracker well but and and

◼   ► cheesecakes can have that too and

◼   ► sometimes do but riddle me this mm-hmm a

◼   ► cheesecake it's more of a the crust is

◼   ► more of a layer of the Cheesecake that's

◼   ► true and also the name says cake

◼   ► well quiche doesn't say pie but we

◼   ► classified it as well that's why it's an

◼   ► honorable mention and this is not

◼   ► mention make it all the way I need just

◼   ► want to make sure that you don't have

◼   ► any cheesecake sneaking into your top

◼   ► four pies because I do not think that

◼   ► cheesecake is a pie I don't have any

◼   ► cheesecake in my top four but that's

◼   ► only because I don't like them that much

◼   ► I like them a little bit now there are

◼   ► cheese pies I'm aware of and they're

◼   ► very different than a cheesecake so you

◼   ► are allowed to pick cheese pie yes you

◼   ► are not allowed to pick cheesecake

◼   ► because I only in classify this as an

◼   ► honorable mention I'm gonna let you have

◼   ► this one but I think the the actual

◼   ► difference between many types of pies

◼   ► and cheesecakes is not that big

◼   ► a difference to the point where I think

◼   ► cheesecakes should be classified as pies

◼   ► even though the rest of the world will

◼   ► you know we'll get you down for that

◼   ► similar to how Tomatoes are clearly

◼   ► fruits even though the entire world says

◼   ► they're vegetables they are by most

◼   ► reasonable metrics fruits yes of course

◼   ► so you don't taste delicious like fruit

◼   ► tastes delicious

◼   ► they're pretty good and yeah but it's

◼   ► biting into a tomato that's that's rough

◼   ► if it's a bad tomato just like like a

◼   ► picket hold a good tomato like an apple

◼   ► all right and not to mention anyway all

◼   ► right I just need to I need you to say

◼   ► this what these cakes are not pies I

◼   ► refuse to agree to this Tim and I will

◼   ► also further derail the conversation by

◼   ► saying within the category of

◼   ► cheesecakes oreo cheesecake is the best

◼   ► cheesecake and that includes both the

◼   ► oreo bits that are throughout the white

◼   ► cheesecake and also the crumbled Oreo

◼   ► crust on the bottom see now are you

◼   ► talking New York cheesecake or are you

◼   ► talking like Italian cheesecake which I

◼   ► which is which I don't really know I I'm

◼   ► calling an Italian because it's made

◼   ► with like the I don't want to say this

◼   ► name of this cheese gotta no matter how

◼   ► I say it someone hates it yes the games

◼   ► that we will so we will call ricotta if

◼   ► you have a problem with how to pronounce

◼   ► we apologize we know that many people

◼   ► have problems with how this is

◼   ► pronounced however you all can't agree

◼   ► on how it should be pronounced so we're

◼   ► gonna go with the one that everyone can

◼   ► recognize and that is simply saying

◼   ► ricotta even though we are so sorry but

◼   ► I cut that yes something like that this

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◼   ► number four it's pie time you want to go

◼   ► first or shall I do you want to do you

◼   ► want to finish last go for now okay

◼   ► now I'm second-guessing right I wonder

◼   ► how many times they say that oh if you

◼   ► actually think that quiche might be pie

◼   ► I would it look if chicken pot pie

◼   ► counts

◼   ► then I think he should count because

◼   ► neither of them are our dessert pies

◼   ► they're both savory meal pies but if

◼   ► that is you know it's up to you which

◼   ► would you rather have would you rather

◼   ► have quiche or chicken pot pie or the

◼   ► other pies re-enlist my number four that

◼   ► I wrote down is peach raspberry that's

◼   ► it yeah because you made that ya choice

◼   ► right yeah I make peach raspberry pie

◼   ► in the end of the summer like when

◼   ► peaches are really good and I like the

◼   ► little bit of raspberry because it

◼   ► brings the tart into the peaches and

◼   ► it's really nice do you don't not a lot

◼   ► of raspberry just a little bit yeah and

◼   ► I really like peach pie because you can

◼   ► like sweat the peaches and get the

◼   ► juices really goopy and make it kind of

◼   ► like a a peach simple syrup and then

◼   ► pour it back into the pie so you don't

◼   ► have a lot of water because if you do

◼   ► that if you don't do that then you have

◼   ► like a pretty watery pie but yeah I

◼   ► really like the peach raspberry pie that

◼   ► I make lattice top for that one it's

◼   ► it's you construct it very similarly it

◼   ► appears as an apple pie yeah I'm also

◼   ► going off of pies I like to make mmm

◼   ► yeah and by the way behind this isoh but

◼   ► I will TIF is really freaking good at

◼   ► making pies like freakishly so

◼   ► especially the cool the kind with all

◼   ► the cool crust work like apple pie with

◼   ► Lilith lattice top and everything so

◼   ► that's that definitely plays in here I

◼   ► think you should be you're really

◼   ► freaking good at pies and it's a great

◼   ► because then I get pie and I get good

◼   ► pie it's fantastic so I really like

◼   ► peach raspberry pie I think that that

◼   ► would be my number4 but if quiche counts

◼   ► I might bump peach raspberry to my

◼   ► honorable mention and bump up quiche but

◼   ► again it depends on the meal so I don't

◼   ► know like what they're tied fair enough

◼   ► yep it wouldn't be topped for if we had

◼   ► a top four yes honestly I don't like

◼   ► most fruit pies yeah actually I had a

◼   ► hard time coming up with four total

◼   ► actually because you know I was looking

◼   ► I I can't believe looking online to see

◼   ► like you know a list of you know

◼   ► America's favorite pies whatever just to

◼   ► see like am I forgetting anything am I

◼   ► missing anything and and there actually

◼   ► were not that many that I really had in

◼   ► contention here yeah there's like I

◼   ► don't really care for blueberry pie

◼   ► honestly

◼   ► because I don't like blueberries that

◼   ► strongly I find cherry pie to be too

◼   ► sweet most of the time I do not care for

◼   ► I don't know what else is there there's

◼   ► like so many other things every rhubarb

◼   ► is a popular one here for strawberries

◼   ► that much I came to that realization

◼   ► pretty recently yeah I felt like you're

◼   ► supposed to like strawberries for so

◼   ► long and I was just so indifferent about

◼   ► them and now I think I'm done I'm done

◼   ► with the lies I think not liking

◼   ► strawberries is kind of like not liking

◼   ► vanilla like in the sense that like

◼   ► there are people out there who don't

◼   ► like vanilla but there aren't that many

◼   ► strawberry I'm like cry about it right

◼   ► but like the whole world kind of assumes

◼   ► that certain flavors are universally

◼   ► liked vanilla is one of them and I think

◼   ► strawberry is one of them too I think

◼   ► pretty much everyone assumes that

◼   ► everyone likes strawberry yeah but if

◼   ► you don't like and I like it so I've

◼   ► never felt this but if you don't like

◼   ► strawberry it's probably really hard for

◼   ► you how do you how does it make you feel

◼   ► I don't know the texture is a little off

◼   ► I prefer raspberries over strawberries

◼   ► any day definitely pick a raspberry or a

◼   ► strawberry I find I I do like the flavor

◼   ► of rhubarb but I don't like the texture

◼   ► of rhubarb so it's really iffy if you're

◼   ► gonna get a good rhubarb pie or not

◼   ► because if they don't properly cook the

◼   ► rhubarb or treat it beforehand it I

◼   ► don't know how to do it I've never made

◼   ► a rhubarb pie but I know it's just too

◼   ► iffy to even put in the effort

◼   ► so what also like oh they're you know

◼   ► making a pie is a good amount of work

◼   ► because it cuz the way you make it you

◼   ► make the crust from scratch you you know

◼   ► easy part well for you anyway so the

◼   ► point I bet if most people tried to make

◼   ► a pie crust with someone who knows how

◼   ► to make pie crust they would see that it

◼   ► literally takes ten minutes don't want

◼   ► the motor built yeah don't let the

◼   ► butter melt but like there's tiny little

◼   ► techniques to learn and as long as you

◼   ► make it with someone who's already made

◼   ► it you will see it only takes ten

◼   ► minutes it has like three ingredients

◼   ► and you are done and you have pie crust

◼   ► and it's awesome and there's no need to

◼   ► buy pie crust from the store anymore

◼   ► because you almost always have the

◼   ► ingredients for pie crust is just like

◼   ► butter flour and water right and so yeah

◼   ► unless you're doing for like

◼   ► more complicated crust that has like you

◼   ► know some cream cheese or something in

◼   ► it for some reason but you don't have to

◼   ► there's lots of things Oh God baking so

◼   ► fun I love how much fun you have baking

◼   ► that way I have all those fun stuff to

◼   ► taste all right well what's your number

◼   ► four

◼   ► all right we're talking about for worst

◼   ► pies my number four you were going to

◼   ► despise this pick but fortunately it's

◼   ► not cheesecake it is cherry cheese pie

◼   ► well that's fine it's disgusting but

◼   ► it's still a pie so cherry this this is

◼   ► a staple of mine growing up so it's a

◼   ► laughably disgusting that's part of it's

◼   ► part of the the value for me a

◼   ► sentimental value but I think it's also

◼   ► really good it's one of the recipes that

◼   ► is on the can of sweetened condensed

◼   ► milk there you go if you buy the

◼   ► candidate gets eagle brand like the big

◼   ► brand of sweetened condensed milk it's

◼   ► like it's on their website it's on some

◼   ► of their cans I think and it also on the

◼   ► cherry can maybe cuz that's all father's

◼   ► yes so you pretty much don't make any of

◼   ► this it's more than that you assemble

◼   ► this pie so so you you get a premade

◼   ► graham cracker crust it has to be a

◼   ► grandpa crust you know so the pre-made

◼   ► ones of those and don't bother making a

◼   ► fresh one to put in these horrible

◼   ► ingredients into the pie because you

◼   ► know know know where the filling is

◼   ► cream cheese sweetened condensed milk

◼   ► and lemon juice blended together and

◼   ► then the topping you pour that into the

◼   ► graham cracker crust and you top it with

◼   ► a can of those red syrupy cherry

◼   ► cherries from cherry pie filling it's a

◼   ► it's literally can of pie filling so

◼   ► it's just like cherries in a really

◼   ► thick goopy sugary red sauce is so 70s

◼   ► it really is and it's really delicious

◼   ► and like is it it's it really delicious

◼   ► it really is mm-hmm yeah so cherokees

◼   ► pie it's very easy you pretty much can't

◼   ► screw it up and it's it's really you

◼   ► know it's already screwed up it's really

◼   ► junky flavors it's all like junk food

◼   ► and and sugar and everything but it's

◼   ► delicious and I love it

◼   ► I don't love it as much as fancier pies

◼   ► but it's definitely my number four this

◼   ► is like the time when I was in school

◼   ► for like first grade or something and my

◼   ► parents came to open school night and my

◼   ► mom cooked us beautiful homemade meals

◼   ► every night it was always something

◼   ► different she

◼   ► very much prided herself in having

◼   ► amazing dinners and being a great mom

◼   ► when it came to pretty much everything

◼   ► but when it came to making dinners for

◼   ► her family and what does her daughter

◼   ► her firstborn daughter the firstborn

◼   ► granddaughter of the family put on the

◼   ► wall of my favorite foods when for a

◼   ► little interview thing that for open

◼   ► school night stovetop stuffing stovetop

◼   ► stuffing was my favorite food I probably

◼   ► had it once right and my mom was

◼   ► horrified I don't have ever had so this

◼   ► is like one of those moments where it's

◼   ► like you're like please it's not your

◼   ► number one no it's my number four it

◼   ► just barely made the list but I do like

◼   ► it I bake a lot I know and to four of

◼   ► you only have four choices you have four

◼   ► slots don't worry the rest is all things

◼   ► that you either make or can make okay

◼   ► but still to lose one of the four to

◼   ► that pie I know it does sting a little

◼   ► I knew you would be upset about this I

◼   ► have been okay I had to be honest it's

◼   ► my number four it's okay

◼   ► I know it's sentimental value yeah and

◼   ► it's also just really good it's I mean

◼   ► it's pure sugar but it's really good

◼   ► anyway what is your number three apple

◼   ► pie really okay and simple apple pie and

◼   ► you and your referring only to the

◼   ► lattice top four already not the crumble

◼   ► top right I don't really mind as long as

◼   ► it's kind of like a brown Betty apple

◼   ► pie I like a lot of brown sugar and

◼   ► cinnamon and you know all those little

◼   ► flavors lately from my mom's recipe of

◼   ► apple pie that I normally make I've been

◼   ► adding a little ginger and I've been

◼   ► really liking that so and when you make

◼   ► I will pie you have to make it with all

◼   ► different kinds of apples if you make it

◼   ► with one kind of apple if you just go to

◼   ► the store and you buy a bag of apples

◼   ► you're doing it wrong don't do that by

◼   ► lots of different apples and have more

◼   ► green apples than any other variety yeah

◼   ► slightly more because they they hold up

◼   ► really well in a pie so yeah my mom's

◼   ► and my brown Betty apple pie

◼   ► it's great crumble top or full top or

◼   ► lattice top that's it to me that is a

◼   ► different pie is like they are but I

◼   ► like

◼   ► all tops of an apple pie that's fair

◼   ► okay I'll give you that because it can

◼   ► it can hold all of those different tops

◼   ► it's okay

◼   ► and your pie is also excellent because

◼   ► you you find a way to have the apples

◼   ► not be too watery like that's often one

◼   ► of the I think the biggest challenge

◼   ► when people make apple pies besides

◼   ► under doing the crust in the middle

◼   ► which is kind of related is if you have

◼   ► just if the inside just full of water

◼   ► yeah I reduce a little bit of the excess

◼   ► apple liquid if I end up letting them if

◼   ► I let them sweat for too long so those

◼   ► of you bakers out there if you are while

◼   ► you're preparing the crust if the apples

◼   ► are sitting in the cinnamon and sugar

◼   ► mixture too long or depending on the

◼   ► temperature outside or in your kitchen

◼   ► you the apples will sweat more or less

◼   ► so if I have a particular day where I'm

◼   ► making a pie and the apples sweat a lot

◼   ► and leave behind a lot of liquid I don't

◼   ► just pour all of that into the pie I

◼   ► reduce some of it on the stove and kind

◼   ► of make a little like caramel syrup and

◼   ► then put that back in the pie but you

◼   ► don't want to do that too much because

◼   ► then you'll get a dry pie so it's very

◼   ► tricky back yeah it's very much a you

◼   ► have to see the day late on the day what

◼   ► what it looks like it took you a couple

◼   ► years to get it right but I think the

◼   ► last year's I didn't have I brought one

◼   ► of those I brought a dry pie once when I

◼   ► just did it too much I know that was not

◼   ► good yeah the last couple years you've

◼   ► been pretty pretty silent thanks all

◼   ► right my number three it's boring but

◼   ► it's good it is the lemon meringue pie

◼   ► yeah I actually I had a little bit of a

◼   ► hesitation when putting this here

◼   ► whether I wasn't sure whether I wanted

◼   ► lemon meringue or lemon tart a lemon

◼   ► tart despite being named tart is clearly

◼   ► a pie and you know and a lemon meringue

◼   ► is very good but I have not had a lot of

◼   ► good meringues I've made a couple that

◼   ► were great but the actual like having

◼   ► someone else's pie or having out at a

◼   ► restaurant oftentimes the meringue part

◼   ► of lemon meringue pie is just like this

◼   ► really cheap flimsy foamy stuff that

◼   ► just falls off and it's it's kind of

◼   ► taste like plastic like well sometimes

◼   ► they over meringue it like it they over

◼   ► whip it and it gets too funny it just

◼   ► breaks down a little bit and gets

◼   ► crystallized a little bit yeah it's too

◼   ► dry sometimes so I didn't have any lemon

◼   ► on mine cuz I don't know I don't really

◼   ► like a lemon curd flavor yeah a bit too

◼   ► strong I really do like I well it's

◼   ► lemon curd but the the the kind of

◼   ► filling that's usually the base of a

◼   ► lemon meringue pie that's usually not

◼   ► very you know bitter or egg yolky at all

◼   ► it's pretty it's pretty sugar yeah I

◼   ► definitely based my picks on consistency

◼   ► mmm based on where you can get it so

◼   ► right if I you know for a peach

◼   ► raspberry I don't really think you could

◼   ► screw that up most of the time it's just

◼   ► peach and raspberry and I like those

◼   ► flavors just as is apple pie I almost

◼   ► like all apple pies there aren't really

◼   ► in any apple pie that I would eat and be

◼   ► like whoo this is terrible who says that

◼   ► that's fair and the same goes for my

◼   ► other two picks all right what was your

◼   ► number three well did you want to finish

◼   ► talking about your lemon pie oh I mean

◼   ► yeah just remembering I'm a big fan of

◼   ► citrus flavors in desserts I really

◼   ► enjoy them and it's just a really great

◼   ► pie you know it's it's basically lemon

◼   ► custard in a crust

◼   ► the crust is often a little bit bland

◼   ► because it's usually not a graham

◼   ► cracker crust ring like that so I that's

◼   ► one of the reasons didn't ring a little

◼   ► bit higher for me but and it's hard to

◼   ► find one that's made well but when it is

◼   ► made well I love love meringue pie and

◼   ► honorable mention for this lot

◼   ► lemon lemon tarts which are basically

◼   ► just the bottom half of a meringue okay

◼   ► well tarts are I would definitely

◼   ► classify tarts as pies they're just

◼   ► skinny pies yeah yeah exactly

◼   ► tarts it's a skinny cousin of pies all

◼   ► right what is your number two

◼   ► so you can pop by we already Popeye you

◼   ► have anything any more say in the matter

◼   ► no love me a pop pie my favorite Popeye

◼   ► ever is Tania's potpie yeah it's really

◼   ► good my best friend down the block shout

◼   ► out to Tania

◼   ► sometimes she listens I love your Popeye

◼   ► please make it very soon it has a lot of

◼   ► time in it it is delicious oh my gosh

◼   ► she makes the best pot pie she like does

◼   ► the whole roofing and every ah yeah

◼   ► every it on all counts it's amazing I'm

◼   ► dreaming over right now I might just

◼   ► call her up tomorrow the show first we

◼   ► just did a show about pies Dania you

◼   ► need to feed the beast

◼   ► give me the Popeye Popeye my number two

◼   ► with a full crust top and bottom

◼   ► oh yeah of course I mean you can't have

◼   ► any like I don't I don't know understand

◼   ► those pot those pot pies that only have

◼   ► like the crusts on top it's like no no

◼   ► there's no pot pie

◼   ► go full pot pie no if the crust is only

◼   ► on top then you've used made a really

◼   ► sad version of chicken and biscuits you

◼   ► have not made Bob I know how flaky pot

◼   ► pie

◼   ► alright my number two related to the

◼   ► lemon meringue category but better in

◼   ► every way the key lime pie hey you know

◼   ► the key like key lime you know for me it

◼   ► doesn't even have to be actually

◼   ► actually made from key limes key limes

◼   ► are pretty hard to find

◼   ► bottled key lime juice is easier but but

◼   ► it's still not that easy to find so

◼   ► pretty much any kind of lime custard pie

◼   ► that now labeled key lime pie this is

◼   ► where you are wrong no because key lime

◼   ► pie is my number one okay so you're

◼   ► gonna you're gonna defend the priority

◼   ► we're gonna talk about key lying lahiri

◼   ► laws yeah key lime juice is very

◼   ► different than lime juice it tastes

◼   ► different and it looks different if you

◼   ► make key if you make pie out of lime

◼   ► it's gonna taste very different than if

◼   ► you make pie out of key lime now you

◼   ► don't need for the flecks of lime bits

◼   ► that go into the pie yeah the zest does

◼   ► not need to be genuine key limes exam

◼   ► very hard to find yeah I've only done it

◼   ► for you like twice once for your key

◼   ► lime birthday party and I think once

◼   ► another time that we happen to find key

◼   ► limes but the juice is important it does

◼   ► not it cannot be substituted so you are

◼   ► making lime pie or you were making key

◼   ► lime pie okay well and there's a bunch

◼   ► of different variations minor variations

◼   ► really on how to make it I think one of

◼   ► the bigger questions is whether it's

◼   ► cooked or not and then how much it's

◼   ► cooked these are all I made my number

◼   ► one because it doesn't matter all key

◼   ► lime pie is good the frozen lime pie

◼   ► yeah yep yes

◼   ► martha stewart's key lime pie super good

◼   ► there is also I made and in kind of like

◼   ► an icebox key lime pie with sweetened

◼   ► condensed milk and like a whipped cream

◼   ► kind of emulation yeah an assembly pie

◼   ► and that was very good key lime pie bars

◼   ► very good there's so many ways to make

◼   ► key lime pie did you basically have like

◼   ► graham quadrats key lime custard on top

◼   ► of a graham cracker crust everything

◼   ► else is optional some people put a

◼   ► little bit whipped cream on top

◼   ► I like a little bit of that to help no

◼   ► rang on there key lime pie I think

◼   ► that's wrong I agree and I like lemon

◼   ► meringue pie

◼   ► however again I will still eat more

◼   ► because I like healing pie yeah I will

◼   ► still I would still eat it too but yeah

◼   ► meringue has no place on a key lime pie

◼   ► anyway my number two is key lime pie

◼   ► made pretty much any way but it has to

◼   ► have a graham cracker crust it has to be

◼   ► I guess since you're telling me all this

◼   ► it has to be made with key lime juice

◼   ► and ideally with a small dollop of fresh

◼   ► whipped cream on top

◼   ► wonderful absolutely love it the colder

◼   ► the better in the fridge is great and

◼   ► the freezer is great absolutely love it

◼   ► yeah I always try to make you key lime

◼   ► pie for your birthday in July which is

◼   ► horrible

◼   ► every time I serve it it just giant blob

◼   ► of Key Lime just is that everywhere it's

◼   ► horrible exactly I try I try so hard

◼   ► all right so number one so your number

◼   ► one is Key Lime you said key limes that

◼   ► we're done with your list right yeah no

◼   ► I just I really love Key Lime Pie you

◼   ► are the one that introduced me to loving

◼   ► Key Lime Pie I think before before you I

◼   ► don't know maybe like six years ago I

◼   ► would have been like what are you crazy

◼   ► I don't like that at all I'm

◼   ► occasionally right but it turns out it's

◼   ► really good and every time that I've

◼   ► like had a spoonful of yours when you've

◼   ► gone for dessert I've loved it and

◼   ► wished I had it for my dessert and

◼   ► usually will end up eating half of yours

◼   ► anyway that's how it works cuz you know

◼   ► you love me like that mm-hmm that's okay

◼   ► with you

◼   ► so yeah it's okie lime Key Lime Pie I

◼   ► just I've never come across one that I

◼   ► didn't like so it has to be number one

◼   ► fair enough

◼   ► all right my number one is something

◼   ► that I would be a lot less willing to

◼   ► share with you that much the New York

◼   ► style fruit tart oh now I figure about

◼   ► fruit tarts right and that does count

◼   ► yes I you figure like if key lime pies

◼   ► can

◼   ► yep or and of lemon tarts can't like if

◼   ► there are so many other things that are

◼   ► various types of tarts that are in pie

◼   ► crust that I have a custard filling that

◼   ► are topped with something sweet that's

◼   ► what a fruit tart is mm-hmm

◼   ► and so by all accounts a fruit tart

◼   ► counts as a pie if all those other

◼   ► things do and then clearly do especially

◼   ► like key lime pie is named pie and is

◼   ► like nobody would ever say key lime pie

◼   ► is not a pie and if a key lime pie is a

◼   ► pie then definitely fruit tarts or pies

◼   ► that's true yeah all right yeah fruit

◼   ► tarts are pies mm-hmm when I was looking

◼   ► at lists of pies and everything I

◼   ► actually didn't for this was one of the

◼   ► very last things added to my list

◼   ► because I also was not thinking of it

◼   ► and I thought well you know I wonder how

◼   ► many tarts count as pies and I started

◼   ► looking a list of tarts and that came up

◼   ► and like oh my god of course that's of

◼   ► course that's number one yes so I've

◼   ► seen a lot of different interpretations

◼   ► of what a fruit tart is so forgive me

◼   ► listeners I'm going to tell you just in

◼   ► case you don't know it for those of you

◼   ► who do know I'm sorry so a fruit tart is

◼   ► a sweet pastry crust in the crust is a

◼   ► usually vanilla flavored custard on top

◼   ► of the custard is fresh pieces of fruit

◼   ► usually strawberries blueberries and

◼   ► raspberries or some combination there

◼   ► may be just two of those sometimes

◼   ► Keeley yeah sometimes Kiwi or like maybe

◼   ► a little a little like peach wedge might

◼   ► be on there sometimes it depends on when

◼   ► you get it and where but almost always

◼   ► they're they're mostly berries

◼   ► blueberries and strawberries and

◼   ► raspberries seem to be like the main

◼   ► ones and then on top of the fresh fruit

◼   ► is a thick glaze made of honey apricot

◼   ► jam and sugar that is to me the the best

◼   ► dessert like if I have to just pick like

◼   ► a one dessert like an half at the end of

◼   ► a meal like give me like an espresso and

◼   ► a fruit tart oh my god that's the best

◼   ► like just I love fruit tarts the only

◼   ► major downside of fruit tarts is that to

◼   ► make them really well takes a lot of

◼   ► work as you know TIFF when you make them

◼   ► Cornish it takes a lot of work cuz like

◼   ► you can you can skip a lot of the steps

◼   ► on pretty much every part of it you can

◼   ► make uh you can get like premade crust

◼   ► you can make a really crappy crust you

◼   ► can get I did and I tried to jello

◼   ► filling or pudding filling instead of

◼   ► instead of like making a whole custard

◼   ► after making it the hard way I tried

◼   ► making it an easy way and they

◼   ► not as good yeah and they're still good

◼   ► but mamatha difference between good and

◼   ► great for fruit tarts and the great ones

◼   ► do take way more effort because you do

◼   ► have to make the custard from scratch

◼   ► when you're like and you're like

◼   ► scratching out the vanilla bean

◼   ► and and like pushing the custard through

◼   ► the through the sieve thing it kind of

◼   ► does feel pretty awesome going through

◼   ► all the steps like you kind of like a

◼   ► mad scientist yeah and making the glaze

◼   ► is not easy usually I make the glaze for

◼   ► us and I've it is surprisingly difficult

◼   ► to get that apricot glaze to be the

◼   ► correct consistency and flavor the

◼   ► spoiler you have to strain it and

◼   ► secondly you you have to use a lot of

◼   ► simple syrup in it as well not like only

◼   ► use a little bit of apricot jelly and

◼   ► most of it is simple syrup and maybe

◼   ► honey if you go that way but anyway when

◼   ► fruit tarts are made well they are

◼   ► wonderful things I first got addicted to

◼   ► them when we were coming home through

◼   ► Ghent through Grand Central every day

◼   ► there's a couple of little markets like

◼   ► in the like kind of off to the side and

◼   ► then in the main area of Grand Central

◼   ► that you can basically get a fruit tart

◼   ► every day like as you go home on the

◼   ► train every day and boy it's that it's

◼   ► dangerous and glorious and and when you

◼   ► make them your easy ones we're not as

◼   ► good as those but your hard ones are

◼   ► even better than those they better be my

◼   ► god I did all the work

◼   ► so yeah look I love of good fruit tart

◼   ► it is definitely my number one as soon

◼   ► as I realized that it should be included

◼   ► in a category of pies it was a

◼   ► no-brainer that's why you were so

◼   ► excited about doing pies I was yeah

◼   ► I totally got I thought you'd be really

◼   ► mad about the cheesecake and the chicken

◼   ► pot pie being included I'm very angry at

◼   ► the Cheesecake yeah it's cake it's cake

◼   ► pot pies is pie I don't it's not

◼   ► marketing it's right there it's totally

◼   ► pie anyway it literally says cake if it

◼   ► were like he should have said nothing

◼   ► that would be up for debate but it

◼   ► literally says cake the other one says

◼   ► pie I don't know what the problem is