May 17, 2006

So that's why I hate pecan pie!

Now, I'll never eat it.

14 comments:

bill said...

The pie looks like pac-man and there's a bug on an orange wall.

Why would this make you hate pecan pie? Apparently, I'm missing something.

bill said...

after reading the comments - is it that roaches look pecans? I've always thought pecans looked like little brains.

bill said...

Little brain pies in a sweet sugary goo.

Unknown said...

Yes, I think the connection is between pecans and cockroaches. I don't see it myself, but hey, there you are.

Tibore said...

Ahhhhhhrrrrrrg! I didn't notice the similarity until now!

Your son has ruined me for that sort of dessert... now I'll never be able to walk by a restaurant's pie display without giving a noticible shudder.

Gaius Arbo said...

MMMMMM, brains! Little pecan brains......

Ruth Anne Adams said...

Chris should pecan someone his own size.

Palladian said...

Noooo! Another meal ruined by the Althouses!

Synova said...

This has just given me a craving for pecan pie. No, I don't particularly *like* roaches, but if I stopped eating because of gross stuff I wouldn't eat at all.

So my reaction to the roach is... hey, look, a bug. And my reaction to the pie is... ooooo, haven't had pecan pie in a while, I wonder if I have enough pecans to make one? (I use the pecans in a chicken-walnut curry recipie because I don't like walnuts.)

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Beth said...

Don't take Chris to an oyster bar!

Pancho said...

A couple a' roaches in a pecan pie never hurt a thang. In fact, in some of the dives where I've eaten the best pecan pies the roach factor is probably considerable.

chuck b. said...

Actually, I made the visual association with cockroaches years ago, and it's never stopped me from LOVING pecan pie. It's one of my absolute favorites. Sometimes I make a chocolate pecan pie, which really amps up the cockroach look. It's delicious.

I also like to make a two-layer version, with a pumpkin pie layer underneath the pecan layer. I have a fabulous slash white trash Ritz cracker pecan pie recipe that people always like. Once I made a chocolate cream cheese layer for the top of the pecan pie...really, really good.

(I'm the one who brings desserts for Thanksgiving and Christmas in my family.)

Matt Brown said...

I like my pecan pie to be very crunchy - I hate it when there's too much goo and not enough pecans.

Chris Althouse Cohen said...

Marghlar: A whipped-cream topped bowl of cockroaches is still a bowl of cockroaches.