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Strawberry surprise pie?? April 21, 2009

When my husband and I were dating, I decided one day that I wanted to try and impress him by making his favorite pie: strawberry rhubarb. I went to the store looking for rhubarb. However, they didn’t have it, so I tried a different store. After going to several stores, I finally found a store that had a section in the produce aisle marked rhubarb. I bought some and went to my mom’s house. We were going to be having supper with my parents that day, so I figured it would be easier to make the pie there. When I arrived, I proudly showed her the rhubarb I had picked up, glad that I had actually found a store that carried it. That’s when she pointed out my mistake. I had bought asparagus instead! Apparently it had been mislabeled, and I obviously didn’t know what rhubarb or asparagus looked like to be able to tell the difference! Boy, was my face red, though not as red as it would have been had I went ahead and made a strawberry and asparagus pie. So instead of pie that evening, we had steamed asparagus with our meal. My husband still teases me on occasion about that mistake.