Desire for key lime anything increasing over the last week or so, I picked up a tub of Philadelphia (cream cheese) brand “Key Lime Pie Filling” and a 9-inch graham cracker pie crust.

Yes, I know, but eye problems of late, a touch of laziness, notable lack of sleep, and half a day waiting in the service area of the car dealership makes one more likely to accept a strange idea, even green cream cheese in a plastic container.  A little over one pound of it, by the way.  And no, dear, I did not save the container.

Plastic cover removed from the green cream cheese container, plastic cover removed from the top of the graham cracker pie crust, all is ready for the simple preparation of what will undoubtedly and unexpectedly mediocre-at-best key lime pie.

Tub of green stuff is inverted slightly above pan of crust.  It is slightly off center, but with only 9-inches across crust that can’t be a major thing.

Green stuff plops into crust, and despite a slight Jell-o-ish wiggle during and after descent it maintains its shape to the greatest detail, including the little rings and dot at the bottom of the container, mirrored in what is now the top of the green stuff.

Spatula comes into play.  Will press green blob into submission, equalizing thickness across the crust.

Blob dynamics come into play.

Crushed-graham-crackers-not-secured-to-aluminum-pie-plate dynamics come into play.

Counter top to the right is approximately three feet long.

Scattered graham cracker crust and large blob of green stuff with a depression slightly off top center grace all three feet of the counter space with minimal loss of graham cracker crumbs to the floor.  Some, but little.

If one could refrigerate a counter top, one could combine cleanup and consumption over a multiple-day period. 

Consumption rapidly becomes a minimally suggestive idea.