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(Big Pine Key, Fla.) -- The Florida Keys’ 200th “birthday party” featured the world’s largest and best Key lime pie...ever.
“In order to make a really good Key lime pie, you must have the perfect graham cracker crust; you must surround it and fill it with condensed milk and the juice of fresh Key limes,” said Monroe County Commissioner Michelle Lincoln.
According to Lincoln, the giant pie required more than 16 gallons of Key lime juice, almost 100 gallons of sweetened condensed milk and some 125 pounds of graham crackers.
Exactly 200 years after the establishment of Monroe County and the Florida Keys in 1823, residents celebrated the anniversary with a huge Key lime pie measuring 13 feet in diameter.
Monday night’s patriotic bicentennial gathering was held at Big Pine Community Park on the Gulf of Mexico in the Lower Keys.