Article: Seeing green over true Key lime pie

Seeing green over true Key lime pie

By NEIL ROSENBERGSpecial to the Journal Sentinel

Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Davie, Fla. -- The quickest way to a bar fight in Key West doesn't involve which of Ernest Hemingway's novels was his best. There is a more fractious issue -- whether you use egg whites or whipped cream - - or neither -- when making the custardlike filling of a Key lime pie.

Key lime pie, you see, is to a citizen of the conch republic, or any South Floridian for that matter, as critical to the culinary culture as a lobster roll in Cape Cod, a bratwurst in Sheboygan, a Philly cheese steak in the city of Brotherly Love or a Taylor Pork Roll in New Jersey.

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