Key lime pie is probably descended from a Magic Lemon Cream Pie printed in a 1931 promotional brochure by Borden, the condensed milk maker, and credited to a fictional spokeswoman named Jane Ellison. The recipe mixes condensed milk, lemon juice and egg yolks, is topped with meringue, baked and served cold. Cooks in the Florida Keys then swapped in local limes, which are tarter and more aromatic than lemons, and the pie spread from there. Food writer John Egerton dated the dessert in the Keys to at least the 1890s, but no solid written record appears before 1933, and the popular story of a cook named Aunt Sally inventing it traces only to a 1995 inn brochure. The pie was promoted as Florida's most famous treat in the 1950s.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.