# Key lime pie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057 "2021-04-15T09:12:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tavaritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@tavaritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavaritz)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/1 "2021-04-15T09:12:13Z")
Hello! Why is line “I’m tasting key lime pie.” used to signify that the person uttering it is about to die? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/2 "2021-04-15T09:52:59Z")
Can you quote an example of this? I can’t find one. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/3 "2021-04-15T10:10:26Z")
A quick google brought up this episode of _Dexter_, about dying and key lime pie: > **[Episode 307: Easy as Pie](https://dexter.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_307:_Easy_as_Pie)** > > Easy as Pie is the seventh of twelve episodes in Season Three of the Showtime series DEXTER, and the thirty-first overall episode of the series. It first aired 9 November 2008. Dexter angers Miguel Prado when he says no to his request for them to... > Dexter changes his mind about helping Camilla. He brings her yet another key lime pie. He closes the drapes before injecting an euthanizing agent (sodium pentothol and pancuronium) into a slice of the pie. He then feeds it to her, bite by bite. “You finally brought me the perfect pie,” she tells him. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/4 "2021-04-15T11:32:24Z")
I guess that UK Google is different. AFAIK, that show was never aired here. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/5 "2021-04-15T11:39:53Z")
It’s never aired here in South Africa either, as far as I know. I googled [“key lime pie” dying](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22key+lime+pie%22+dying) ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/6 "2021-04-15T11:45:00Z")
> [@tavaritz](#): > > Why is line “I’m tasting key lime pie.” used to signify that the person uttering it is about to die? I want to know when that line is used, outside of the original show. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/7 "2021-04-15T11:50:04Z")
That wasn’t really the question. The question was about the association of key lime pie and dying. The quote may be spurious. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/8 "2021-04-15T12:10:17Z")
I’m so disappointed this thread isn’t actually about key lime pie… ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/9 "2021-04-15T12:51:13Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > The question was about the association of key lime pie and dying. Aside from the OP, has anyone ever heard of such an association? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/10 "2021-04-15T13:05:45Z")
> [@GreenWyvern](#): > > That wasn’t really the question. The question was about the association of key lime pie and dying. There seems to be _no_ association outside of that one episode, a singular association by a single character. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/11 "2021-04-15T14:15:15Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > There seems to be _no_ association outside of that one episode, a singular association by a single character. It doesn’t even appear that the character actually says “I’m tasting key lime pie” in the episode though. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/12 "2021-04-15T14:19:17Z")
Me too. Actually I am not wanting to read further, so as to avoid any negative associations with one of my favorite foods. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/13 "2021-04-15T14:25:12Z")
I wouldn’t mind some Key Lime Pie on my deathbed. Wouldn’t have to worry about all those carbs, so bring me two pieces please and a jumbo margarita. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/14 "2021-04-15T14:26:43Z")
If one of the ingredients is raw eggs… > **[How To Kill Your Neighbor With Key Lime Pie](https://keysweekly.com/42/david-sloan-shares-how-to-kill-your-neighbor-with-key-lime-pie/)** > > Don’t waste time with arsenic or hemlock next time you feel like killing a neighbor. You can get the same results serving them a tart, delicious slice of Key lime pie. Just make sure to include raw eggs like Grandma used to do. Eggs have long been a... ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/15 "2021-04-15T14:28:47Z")
I can see it in one of Bugs Bunny’s histrionic death scenes: “(cough cough) everything’s getting dark. I’m tasting Key Lime pie. So long, pal…so long”. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/16 "2021-04-15T14:30:10Z")
Indeed. OP, when come back, bring non-rhetorical Key Lime pie. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/17 "2021-04-15T14:56:01Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Aside from the OP, has anyone ever heard of such an association? It’s from a (now deleted) webcomic called Erfworld, published on the same site as Order of the Stick. [Archived version](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0002.html) [Some discussion of the line here.](https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?34963-quot-I-can-taste-key-lime-pie-quot) Somebody in the thread suggests it might be a line from Natural Born Killers. But it’s a version of a greater meme where someone dying says that they can taste … something. A different thing in different works. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/18 "2021-04-15T14:56:18Z")
A quick google (in the UK) of “I’m tasting key lime pie.” returns this result (and this result only) :- > **[Is it just me?](https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/threads/is-it-just-me.552197/)** > > Or do you ever find yourself vaping and think to yourself "Wow, I'm getting my "fix" for nicotine, but I'm also tasting coffee without a disgusting smell". This just occurred to me recently. Vape on!! …in which a character called **realsis** says ` > “I’m not smoking and I’m tasting key lime pie! I think I’m in heaven!” I suspect this is irrelevant and non sequitorial. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/19 "2021-04-15T15:04:01Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > It’s from a (now deleted) webcomic called Erfworld, published on the same site as Order of the Stick. > > [Archived version](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0002.html) [Corrected link](https://web.archive.org/web/20070225174801/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0002.html) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057/20 "2021-04-15T15:07:09Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Corrected link Damn good pull. From that cartoon, I surmise that what he said was a random utterance due to brain damage-he could just as well have said “I smell heffalumps”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/key-lime-pie/940057.md?page=2)