Thank you all. I have just laughed so hard my stomach muscles ache.

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Originally posted by Een:
Thank you all. I have just laughed so hard my stomach muscles ache.

Thanks! Uh, I think. . .

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Originally posted by indybob:

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Originally posted by inky:

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Originally posted by indybob:

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Originally posted by Board-O:
I and others have given sufficient examples.

Given sufficient examples of how my taste buds are wrong, and how you know everything about what anybody else might like to eat??? Do you have any idea how pompous you are? You really don't have a clue do you? (How's that for an absolute?)

Your credibility in the chocolate debate took a huge blow when you mention chocolate, and I assume you meant dark, and key lime in the same dessert. The two flavors in NO WAY will EVER compliment each other !

Oh no, I'm not credible in the chocolate debate. Boo hoo. I haven't tried them, but please give these folks a call and tell them they don't have a clue, please tell me how it goes: Clicky, and Clicky.

Geez, some of you people kill me sometimes. I've been having a fun time showing this thread to folks at work, and having to defend why I have almost 3,000 posts on a board with such blowhards. Don't worry, I pointed out that there are only a few of you out there.

You are such a bonehead sometimes. Have you ever had either of these products ? As for the Godiva truffle, this is NOT key lime pie or anything close. chocolate dipped key lime popsicles...mmmmmmmmm, puke ! My family lived in the keys for 7 years and I spent a lot of time there (on vacations and in between semesters), I never saw any locals, or tourists for that matter, huffin down a chocolate covered key lime pie thing. As Board-O said, anybody can attempt to market anything, say they are great, but does that mean they are ? Do you believe in reality TV shows ?

As far as your 3000 posts, you and Mpls make a lot of meaningless posts to accumulate the numbers, "Thanks for the note" or "I'll have to try that", etc.

Oh, and this is nothing personal, but when people make constructive replies to what you post and you attack, people will tend to attack back...

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I'm with inky on this one...of course those chocolate covered abnormalities are probably made with persian lime concentrate.

Inky,

You ask some good questions, so let me take them one at a time.

You are such a bonehead sometimes. Have you ever had either of these products? Boneheads generally can't read well. Read again, I never said I had eaten either product.

Do I believe in reality TV shows? Of course! There are plenty of them!

3,000 posts??? Thanks for the note! I'll have to try that! (side note to W+A, you've met me, I swear I'm not mwg!)

Chilepepper/Inky, you'd better get on a plane and fly on up to Indy. Tomorrow morning, I'm gonna head on over to the local super (Whole Foods in Nora), and buy up every key lime I can get my hands on. If they don't have them there, I'm heading next door to the Marsh.

I have the afternoon off, so I'm gonna make up a big giant key lime pie, and I'm getting some Valrhona 70%, no check that, some Ghirardelli Flickettes, melt them up and drizzle them all over the top. And, what's worse, I'll take the whole shebang into the office on Friday to corrupt my workmates.

The clock is ticking, you have about 13 hours to get up there. I MUST BE GOING CRAZY, STOP ME BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!

Bob, I know you are joking but this key lime and chocolat pie is hurting my poor little French-trained pastry brain.

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Originally posted by indybob:
It matters not one bit what you've accumulated in your time here on earth, I'm just sorry that you have such a bitter, closed minded life Board-O.

You confuse bitterness with an intolerance for the intellectually challenged. Closed-minded? No. Just aware that certain things are poor options, like putting chocolate on everything. People with no palates do those kind of things. Delicacy is a concept with which you are decidedly unfamiliar.

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Originally posted by Board-O:

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Originally posted by indybob:
It matters not one bit what you've accumulated in your time here on earth, I'm just sorry that you have such a bitter, closed minded life Board-O.

You confuse bitterness with an intolerance for the intellectually challenged. Closed-minded? No. Just aware that certain things are poor options, like putting chocolate on everything. People with no palates do those kind of things. Delicacy is a concept with which you are decidedly unfamiliar.

You're right! Now where's that Mollydooker!

Een, incoming.

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Originally posted by indybob:
Inky,

You ask some good questions, so let me take them one at a time.

You are such a bonehead sometimes. Have you ever had either of these products? Boneheads generally can't read well. Read again, I never said I had eaten either product.

Do I believe in reality TV shows? Of course! There are plenty of them!

3,000 posts??? Thanks for the note! I'll have to try that! (side note to W+A, you've met me, I swear I'm not mwg!)

Chilepepper/Inky, you'd better get on a plane and fly on up to Indy. Tomorrow morning, I'm gonna head on over to the local super (Whole Foods in Nora), and buy up every key lime I can get my hands on. If they don't have them there, I'm heading next door to the Marsh.

I have the afternoon off, so I'm gonna make up a big giant key lime pie, and I'm getting some Valrhona 70%, no check that, some Ghirardelli Flickettes, melt them up and drizzle them all over the top. And, what's worse, I'll take the whole shebang into the office on Friday to corrupt my workmates.

The clock is ticking, you have about 13 hours to get up there. I MUST BE GOING CRAZY, STOP ME BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!

To respond, in no particular order:

You opened the door for the 3000 posts.

Please don't go to whole foods to get your Mexican grown key limes, instead, please fly down here to South Fla and I will personally deliver to you some local grown, tree ripe, yellow key limes. By the way, did you know ripe key limes should be yellow, not those rock hard green things in a mesh bag (or taken out of the bag and sold bulk, that you get at whole foods) ?

If you are a chocolate man, please stick with the Valrhona, or even better, a limited production Scharffenberger.

Oh, and who is mwg?

Inky,

Deal. I didn't know key lime truism. Seriously, I'll have to try the real thing sometime.

Mpls=mwg.

But, I respectfully disagree, Scherffenberger is delicious, but I think their semi and bitter offerings have a "just over the edge" roasted quality to it, and there's a graininess, that doesn't approach the smoothness of V's bars and couverture, but, heck that's just my opinion, what the hell do I know? .

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Inky,

Deal. I didn't know key lime truism. Seriously, I'll have to try the real thing sometime.

Mpls=mwg.

But, I respectfully disagree, Scherffenberger is delicious, but I think their semi and bitter offerings have a "just over the edge" roasted quality to it, and there's a graininess, that doesn't approach the smoothness of V's bars and couverture, but, heck that's just my opinion, what the hell do I know? .

If you haven't already, try some of the Scharffenberger's limited production stuff, it ranges from 70% to 85% and it is labeled based on the region its from, see this, or this for example (they are cheaper at whole foods than buying online). This is totally different from the bulk Scharffenberger they sell. It is up by the registers in my store.

inky,

Cool. Not very often, once or twice a year, I'll get varied two or three kg. packs of disks from chocosphere. Mostly for snacking, but the occasional indulgent dessert (molten cake is a fave). I usually get Guittard, Val-, or Cluizel, but will check out S-Berger's premium stuff next time.

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Please don't go to whole foods to get your Mexican grown key limes, instead, please fly down here to South Fla and I will personally deliver to you some local grown, tree ripe, yellow key limes. By the way, did you know ripe key limes should be yellow, not those rock hard green things in a mesh bag (or taken out of the bag and sold bulk, that you get at whole foods)

Yep, my parents' two key lime trees are soon to be full of ripe yellow key limes. Can't wait for a nice refreshing summertime dessert.

Nan in Atlanta makes a pretty good green tea creme brulee, but I don't think anything can beat the original creme brulee.

If your palate is dead, you could always add some chocolate to it.

The poor guy who started this thread must be wondering what's going on in here

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The poor guy who started this thread must be wondering what's going on in here

Most definately.

MUCH success pairing chocolate with key limes. steve's makes a swingle(key lime pie dipped in chocolate and then frozen. on a stick. ) that simply rocks my world.

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MUCH success pairing chocolate with key limes.

And you know this how, being in brooklyn (other than doing a google search) ???? By the way, how are those key lime trees doing in your neck of the woods ?

Many stores in the Keys and S. Fla make the "chocolate dipped pie on a stick" but does that make them good ? Its called a novelty, as most other key lime products that are produced. In case you have never truly had a FRESH squeezed key lime, they have a distinct bitter taste, that if not squeezed from a truly fresh key lime and unadulterated, can be quite off-putting. Most of the oddball items made with key lime juice here (cookies, cake, candy, juices, sauces, marinades, key lime ade, etc.) have been so commercialized and masked by other flavors that you would not know its made from the key lime. They are more of a marketing ploy for the tourist/visitor to purchase a "piece of the South Florida/Keys life", just like those miniature resin alligator figurines.

Does anybody see the trend that its the native floridians dissing the key lime/chocolate mixture (the people who grew up and/or live where the key lime IS) while the people living thousands of miles away promoting it ? Hmmmmm...

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The Food Mafia never rests, it waits.

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Originally posted by indybob:
The Food Mafia never rests, it waits.

..to take all of you out (we use key lime cement shoes here)

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Originally posted by inky:
[And you know this how, being in brooklyn (other than doing a google search) ???? By the way, how are those key lime trees doing in your neck of the woods ?

You do know that it's 2008 don't you? Have you ever heard of this new invention called the airplane? For the right price it is possible to get fresh anything anywhere.

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the key lime/chocolate thing in the keys is horrid, they do use concentrate. steve's doesn't. see VT's post as to how that happens(wow, modern technology dinky. who'd a thunk'd it? )...

maybe dinky should try researching before he inserts foot in mouth. or ass.

I still think its unconscionable, but to each his own. If people enjoy it...so be it, I'm just not gonna ruin my key lime with chocolate, but certainly don't care if others do.

Some people go out to a high end steak house, order the aged bone-in ribeye, have it cooked to medium well and use A-1 sauce. They paid for it, and enjoy it that way, but I'd never do that!

Anybody know how they're prepared in Southeast Asia, where the "key lime," Citrus aurantiifolia is actually from?

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