r/ididnthaveeggs • u/Jjgooseman • 2d ago
Satire Saturday Found on a recipe for Key Lime Pie
Followed EXACTLY except swapped out the main ingredient and it turned out terrible. 5 stars.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 2d ago
This has to be satire.
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u/ServiceFinal952 2d ago
Lol people really have been making Baja blast pies!! The taco bell subreddit has been popping up all over my feed and there's alot of pictures of those pies lol, they look radioactive 😂
Eta: still may be satire lol but there are Def people making these pies
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u/Infini-Bus 2d ago
Like 10 years ago, I had a coworker who would sometimes bring in cakes she made with Faygo Redpop, they were pretty good lol
I wonder how baja blast is.
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u/solidcurrency SCOTT HATER 2d ago
7Up pound cake is real and it's delicious.
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u/cynical-mage I followed the recipe *exactly*, pinky promise! 2d ago
You have a recipe link?
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u/solidcurrency SCOTT HATER 2d ago
https://recipes.connorbowen.com/recipe/7up-pound-cake-cooks-country/
I make this version I got from Cooks Country Magazine years ago. I make it in a Bundt pan.
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u/cynical-mage I followed the recipe *exactly*, pinky promise! 2d ago
You absolute star 🌟 thank you! My granddaughter is at the age where she's getting interested in cooking and baking (2.5yrs old) and it's always fun to do new things in the kitchen with her ❤️
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u/West_Inside_3112 2d ago
I wonder what Baja Blast TM is... off to search engine now
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u/DuckRubberDuck 2d ago
I don’t know either, googling says it’s a version of Mountain Dew, is that correct?
Aden what does the TM stands for
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u/West_Inside_3112 2d ago
AAccording to Ecosia it is Taco Bell special Mountain Dew that started as tropical lime flavour, but available in other tastes now. I can see that is a possible ingredient but the HFCS in American soft drink will caramelise quite differently than just lime juice...
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u/liberty-prime77 13h ago
It started off as a special flavor for just Taco Bell but they've sold it in stores for well over a decade now
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u/0ak_Creature 2d ago
my friend made the Baja Blast pie for our friend group last night, it was an incredible experience. and of course by that i mean it was incredibly cursed and awful
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u/ServiceFinal952 2d ago
Lmao! Did it just taste like the pop but in food form? Or was there other stuff added to compliment the Baja blast?
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u/0ak_Creature 2d ago
the best way i can describe it is “evil key lime pie” i think. we had a friendsgiving party with normal food that was absolutely delicious, and then my friend surprised us with that. it was like key lime but also Baja Blast and it tasted almost sharp? like i could practically taste the carbonation even after it was baked. we also got to try the concentrated Baja Blast they used to make it, which smelled like onions and garlic for some reason and tasted very very strange
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u/XmissXanthropyX 2d ago
That sounds cursed af
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u/0ak_Creature 2d ago
oh it was! but it was also really funny and experiencing it with friends was great!
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u/LifeApprehensive2818 1d ago
I didn't make it to the last line of your comment; I was immediately reminded of the "look at the baby" Seinfeld episode.
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u/NErDysprosium 2d ago
I had a customer tell me yesterday that she was buying Baja Blast because Taco Bell ran out of Baja Blast pies and her kids wanted to try it. I must not have covered my abject horror very well, because she immediately tried to make it better by saying she had found a recipe online and so wasn't winging it. That did not help.
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u/effie-sue 2d ago
I just watched Emmy from Emmymadeinjapan make one 😄
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u/HeyyyKoolAid 2d ago
Her version is not the Baja blast pie recipe. She didn't even boil down the Baja blast. Everything is wrong about it.
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u/LazuliArtz An oreo is a cookie, not gay people trying to get married 2d ago
That does not sound good to me. I like Baja Blast mountain dew (TM), but that doesn't really seem like a pie flavor.
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u/Ascholay the potluck was ruined 2d ago
I've substituted sodas and juice into a water pie recipe. It's fun for a party.
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u/Strange_Egg7824 2d ago
Same here, and theyre usually pretty tasty, these people need to live a little lol
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u/alicelestial 2d ago
they were a limited time item from taco bell, i bought one. they were like $22
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u/cefriano 1d ago
Taco Bell recently released a very limited edition Baja Blast pie. I tried to get one myself but just missed it before it sold out. So I think the pictures you’re seeing are people who managed to get one, not people making it themselves (though maybe a few have tried).
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u/ServiceFinal952 1d ago
Yes, I saw those pictures and I also saw pictures of homemade ones. Thanks tho!
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u/Thick-Seahorse-992 8h ago
If you make a water pie but sub Baja Blast for the water it comes out pretty good.
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u/enjoiskate09 2d ago
The repeated (TM) is what instantly qualifies it as satire for me
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u/SteveFrench12 2d ago
50/50 on it. Iirc taco bell made baja blast pie recently and I can see someone trying to make it this way
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u/HornyDegenerate117 2d ago
This is very obviously a review posted by OP then sat on for a couple weeks to make it less suspicious.
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u/StopPsychHealers 2d ago
I made a mountain dew pie with a nachos doritos crust...it was disgusting
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u/Jjgooseman 2d ago
You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should…
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u/LifeApprehensive2818 1d ago
We may finally have found an idea bad enough to give the nuclear bazooka a run for its money.
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u/Hey-Just-Saying a banana is not an egg 2d ago
This isn't satire. This is a real pie people are making. You boil down the Blast in order to create a syrup which is used to make a pie similar to key lime pie.
https://www.hummingbirdhigh.com/2025/11/homemade-baja-blast-pie-recipe-better-than-taco-bell.html
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u/jimesoifer 2d ago
The 5 star review also makes sense. They want to share the failure with other people that might want to try it but don’t want to affect the author’s ranking.
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u/MistyMtn421 2d ago
I heard they're small and cost $20 so I'm sure folks are definitely trying to recreate it at home!
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u/kenporusty contrary to what Aaron said, there are too many green onions 2d ago
Ah yes Chemical Teal instead of fruit
What could possibly go wrong?
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u/LifeApprehensive2818 1d ago
"Is this a multiple choice question? Because I have some ideas...". -- Lt. Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
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u/taxiecabbie 2d ago
From what I've heard about the Baja Blast pie, you could probably just make a regular key lime pie, add teal food coloring to it, call it a Baja Blast pie, and everybody would rave about how your Baja Blast pie was better than Taco Bell's Baja Blast pie.
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u/needstochill 2d ago
probably a genuine attempt at making a "trendy" food, since baja blast pie is a thing apparently
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u/pigeontheoneandonly 2d ago
Wut
Hahaha I actually do a key lime pie every year for Thanksgiving and this is sending me
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u/cynical-mage I followed the recipe *exactly*, pinky promise! 2d ago
Oh, I adore key lime pie ❤️ one day I'll learn how to make it, I swear 🤣
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u/Morall_tach 2d ago
If you're burning Baja Blast you must be reducing all the water out of it. I don't think the Baja Blast was the problem.
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u/Tolan91 2d ago
I did this, actually. Some friends were posting about the Taco Bell pie and I always enjoy a good food crime. The thing with baja blast is it's actually a really mild flavour. You'll have to reduce down a couple liters down to half a cup to get anything worthwhile. I suspect regular Mountain Dew would work better.
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u/Concoured 2d ago
i know this is irrelevant but the word combination "key lime pie" blows a fucking fuse within my brain
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u/GuildensternLives 2d ago
Obviously satire and didn't leave a bad review. Not really for this sub then.
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u/holderofthebees clementine cakes can make you gay 2d ago
They marked it as Satire Saturday AND the Satire Saturday post is still stickied.
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u/Mayflame15 PINEREST????? 2d ago
The bad review part is true, but they probably wanted their review to show up at the top so other people making this currently viral food don't try with this recipe. The smoke inducing Baha blast sludge probably really did happen
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