Key Lime Pie is one of those quirkily delicious Florida culinary exports that seems to inspire a lot of debate. Whether it’s graham cracker or meringue crust, lime vs lemon, whipped cream or none at all, whether or not it should be made with authentic Key limes or a tin of condensed milk – people love to argue about the details.
What most people don’t know is that Key lime pie can also be used as a tool for sexy steganography. It’s a form of cryptography where hidden messages are encoded by using things like order of words, length of certain letters, and even punctuation. It’s a bit like reverse graffiti where you write messages in secret code that only the receiver knows.
The message the KLP Poster was leaving behind was that he or she loved the Key Lime Pies and Goody Cheese Burgers at Captain Kutchie’s in Asheville, NC. The poster went on to write thousands of comments across multiple websites before eventually disappearing in 2009. The mystery surrounding who this person was (and why they spent so much time talking about a fictional restaurant and its food) would go down in internet history as one of the strangest online mysteries.
Join Aly and Nat along with special guests Tyler and Charlie from Believing the Bizarre as they delve into the mysterious world of KLP and try to figure out who this anonymous user was. Was it a disgruntled employee, the actual Captain Kutchie himself, a SEO botscript gone rogue, or something else entirely?