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Chrissy Teigen Made Pies After Postmates Accidentally Delivered 200 Limes

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Elizabeth Licata|

Life gives most of us lemons; it gave Chrissy Teigen way, way too many limes. This weekend Teigen attempted to order five limes from Postmates, which is a perfectly ordinary number of limes for a person to order. Instead she received five bags of limes. Each bag contained 40 limes, so Chrissy Teigen was left with 195 limes she hadn't meant to order. Clearly, it was time for key lime pie.

This sort of thing has happened to Teigen before. In January, she tried to order six bananas and received six bunches of bananas instead. In September, she tried to order five bottles of steak sauce and even wrote "five bottles" in the description field, and she still wound up with 25 bottles. So she didn't seem too shocked when she announced to Twitter that, "it has happened again."

Ordering groceries online is a fantastic convenience of modern life, but it can be tricky. Just last month the Norwegian Olympic team mixed up an online grocery order in South Korea and wound up with 15,000 eggs, which was way too much protein, even for an entire Olympic team. So Chrissy Teigen is in good company.

Teigen posted a photo of her "couch lime command station," where she was zesting and juicing her 200 limes.

Six hours later she posted an update to say she was still making pies. "I don't even like lime," she said.

Two hundred limes turns into a lot of pies. Teigen wrote that she was making a key lime cheesecake, a piña colada key lime pie, and a key lime banana custard. But then tragedy struck, and she posted a photo of video showing the cheesecake, dropped on the floor.

Fortunately, Teigen was able to save her work by putting the smashed cheesecake into ramekins and declaring it "cheesecake puddings with crust crumbles."

They still looked great. Maybe cheesecake puddings with crust crumbles will be in her next cookbook. If anyone can turn a kitchen disaster into a hot new food trend, it's Chrissy Teigen, which is just one of the reasons the food world is completely obsessed with her.

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