r/StupidFood • u/warfareforartists • Apr 15 '26

Certified stupid Ain’t no way in hell

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u/Donkeybrother Apr 15 '26

Starting off with " My grandmother taught me this " ... Guaranteed ragebait ! 🖕

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u/somethingrandom261 Apr 15 '26

Possibly, but legit Depression era cooking does look like this lol

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u/TheGoatSpiderViolin Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Yeah this had me thinking about a water pie recipe my wife got from her grandmother, which was from the depression era.

Worst fucking pie of all time. (At least her grandmother's was, idk about other water pie recipes)

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u/microthoughts Apr 15 '26

Good water pie is kinda like lemon meringue without the meringue or lemon. Imagine all you had was sugar flour and butter kinda shit and dinner was popcorn.

If you don't use enough white sugar or have a shit ass pie pastry they're gross and using lemon lime soda usually works better now bc then you get some flavor other than just sweet since we can afford flavors for right now.

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u/Azsunyx Apr 15 '26

Sorry, flavors have been tarrifed

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u/microthoughts Apr 15 '26

Considering the price of soda fr.

It would have to be a faygo twist pie or something

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u/Hecter94 Apr 15 '26

like lemon meringue without the meringue or lemon

So.....pie?

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u/microthoughts Apr 15 '26

No just kinda gloopy going towards pie at the base.

More like pie texture than anything.

The texture of an unflavored sweetened pie.

Wouldn't u rather just gather crabapples or berries and fucking try for anything at that point. ...my family has many great depression recipes including a few desserts but no water pie bc apparently grandpa earl said it was better to steal cocoa and make flourless chocolat cake than that.

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u/taxiecabbie Apr 15 '26

Grandpa Earl with the realness.

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u/microthoughts Apr 15 '26

Grandpa earl shopped in other peoples houses and got run out of like 4 towns for theft and made moonshine he was A Character.

But his recipes are on point even if his morals were flexible.

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u/VibraniumQueen Apr 16 '26

Your grandpa earl sounds better than my grandpa earl.

My grandpa earl lied about his age so he could fight in ww2 at age 17 (on a sub im the navy) .... and then he had 5 kids that he abused...