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The Great Cherry Pie Disaster of '96
Raindawn - Keeper of Bookshelves that Defy the Laws of Physics Started conversation Dec 3, 2002
Some years ago, I had bought some tart cherries (plentiful in the summer where I'm from), and I decided I was going to make my specialty, cherry pie, for my family. Well, the pie smelled good, and looked good, coming out of the oven... but when we tried to eat it, we realised something was terribly wrong... I had used some fancy gourmet tapioca pudding mix to thicken it, (which came in the form of little round plasticky beads, about 2 mm in diameter)...
And they didn't melt down in the oven!!
The pie was *full* of hard, chewy round balls that got stuck in our teeth, and essentially made the pie unedible. From then on, I've only used cornstarch!
Cheers! 
Raindawn
The Great Cherry Pie Disaster of '96
footfoot Posted Dec 5, 2002
Here's another story of an inedible cherry pie:
I knew a girl who tried to impress her boyfriend by attempting to make a cherry pie (she had never made one before). She used all maraschino cherries in the filling...ook.
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