It was bound to happen.
Jenn Bucci, our cook, couldn't leave well-enough alone. In her quest to bake ever-higher lemon meringue pies she finally went beyond the limits of nature.
No pie was meant to have 5 1/2 inches of sticky, lemony meringue on it. The meringue was so thick that gravity compressed the lemon filling into something no dessert eater ever wants to contemplate: a living pie!!!
Something, call it a sixth sense, told me not to get too close to the row of colossal pies. But I had to get right in there, just to record the immense thickness of meringue. I needed photographic evidence! Would you have believed me if I told you the pies had 5 1/2 inches of meringue on them? "Sure buddy, and I'm the Tooth Fairy!"
So I leaned in for the shot of mountainous meringue. I thought at first that I had just moved too close. The pies looked like the Himalayas. I backed away but the pies were still just as huge in the lens. Too late I realized that the pies were coming at me! I was backed into a corner and already stuck like a fly in a web.
My "fight or flight" instinct too over. Only this time it was more like "eat or be stuck for the rest of my life" instinct. In the end, I just licked my fingers and said cockily to the remaining pies, "Alright, who's next?"
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