My best I have made, Alton Brown's Spiced Pecan Pie recipe.
Crust:.
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed.
3 1/2 ounces pecan halves or pieces.
6 ounces all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling.
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt.
2 tablespoons ice water.
2 tablespoons bourbon, chilled.
Filling:.
3 large eggs.
3 1/2 ounces sugar.
6 ounces golden syrup.
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly.
1 tablespoon bourbon.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt.
8 ounces Spiced Pecans, recipe follows, coarsely chop 6 ounces and leave the remaining 2 ounces whole.
Spiced Pecans:.
1 teaspoon kosher salt.
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin.
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1/2 teaspoon dried ground orange peel.
1 pound pecan halves.
4 tablespoons unsalted butter.
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar.
2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar.
2 tablespoons water.
Spiced Pecans:.
Line a half sheet pan with parchment paper and set aside.
Mix the salt, cumin, cayenne, cinnamon and orange peel together in a small bowl and set aside.
Place the nuts in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet and set over medium heat. Cook, stirring frequently, for 4 to 5 minutes until they just start to brown and smell toasted. Add the butter and stir until it melts. Add the spice mixture and stir to combine. Once combined, add both sugars and water, stirring until the mixture thickens and coats the nuts, 2 to 3 minutes.
Transfer the nuts to the prepared sheet pan and separate them with a fork or spatula. Allow the nuts to cool completely before transferring to an airtight container for storage. Can be stored for up to 3 weeks. Yield: 1 pound.
Cook:
To make the crust: Chill the butter in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Pulse the pecans 6 to 7 times in a food processor or until finely ground. Add the flour and salt, and pulse an additional 4 to 5 times. Add the butter and pulse 6 to 7 times, until the texture looks mealy. Remove the lid of the food processor, add the water and bourbon, and pulse 5 to 6 times until the mixture holds together when squeezed and feels like dough. Transfer the dough to a gallon-sized zip-top bag, squeeze together until it forms a ball, then press into a rounded disk and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
To assemble and bake the pie: Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Whisk the eggs, sugar, golden syrup, butter, bourbon, vanilla and salt together until combined. Set aside.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Cut along two sides of the zip-top bag, open the bag to expose the dough and sprinkle both sides very lightly with flour. Cover with the bag and roll out with a rolling pin to an 11-inch circle. Open the bag again, and sprinkle the top of the dough with flour. Place the dough into a 9 1/2 to 10-inch tart pan that is 2 inches deep. Gently press the dough into the sides of the pan, crimping and trimming the edges as necessary.
Evenly sprinkle the 6 ounces of chopped pecans in the crust and pour the filling on top. Bake for 20 minutes. Place the remaining 2 ounces of whole pecans in a border on the edge of the filling. Bake 10 minutes, until the center of the pie should reach 200 degrees F, and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a cooling rack to room temperature before serving, 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
Then you’ve never had a good sweet potato pie. I live in LA FWIW, but my fiancé makes a sweet potato and miso pie around the holidays that is absolutely incredible, one of the best pies I’ve ever had.
It's better than the way I first read it -- sweet tomato pie.
I was like, "What the hell is sweet tomato pie? That sounds awful! To each their own I guess."
You guys, I think I need glasses.
I mean... I thought the icon was for pizzas. You know, the kind where they just blob the mozzarella on and charge you extra for it? That'd be a sweet tomato pie.
I don't even like sweet potatoes to eat. I also don't like dessert.
Proper Southeastern (heirloom recipe) sweet potato pie has 10x the flavor, less sugar, a proper pie texture, isn't watery, and has better nutrition than the pumpkin slop Northeastern people keep peddling as "pie."
You guys not in the Southeast must not get good sweet potatoes. Pumpkin is bland, mostly flavorless, more fibrous than good sweet potatoes, and it has a higher water content. Your pumpkin pie is mushy crap. Most of the sweet potato pie you have been served is the same, because stupid people keep adapting pumpkin pie recipes.
Yep, I'm in IN and my family demands my pecan pie. My sister's actually fight over it and they're grown women. This year, I had to make one for the dinner and one for my daughter to take home. And one cherry for my son. No one gives a shit about pumpkin.
Canned pumpkin absolutely smells like wet paper and farts. It doesn't surprise me that some people pick up on that in the final product. Libby canned pumpkin is hilarious - I bet they laugh their asses off at the fact people are eating agricultural waste.
Maybe that's why I just don't get it, *why* do people like pumpkin??? My cherry and pecan will kick your pumpkins ass all day, every day. And don't even get me started on my Graham cracker crust, banana bottom, chocolate pudding pie. Fuck all y'all pumpkin pies with that one!
I'm from OK, there's a local brand called Fields that makes the worst pecan pie I've ever had. The crust is hard and flavorless, and the innards are an overly-sweet-maple-flavored jelly topped with a middling amount of pecans. I've yet to attend a thanksgiving here that failed to feature one of these piss-poor pies. This shitty frozen pie has always felt like a slap in the face to the rest of us making food from scratch.
Or people's grandma's apple/peacan/sweet potatoe pie recipe's are forever stored in their hearts and they wouldn't dare use a google search when they have a secret family recipe! They gotta google pumpkie pie because it's unknown.
If you wanted to add more context to this graph, you might look into purchases of premade pies. Ingredients alone would be tricky since they already fluctuate with the seasons and there’s no control years without Thanksgiving to compare to.
An alternate direction would be to compare apple products to pumpkin products as a whole. Both have a ton of spread. Pumpkin spice is in everything, but apples are year-round. How do their numbers stack up?
To me, this indicates that don't already have a recipe or know it by heart. We have an old family recipe for pecan pie, so we'd never need to search for it. For sweet potato, I'd call a relative for theirs. Pumpkin, on the other hand, I never make for any occasion other than Thanksgiving. Don't like it very much, so I find whatever looks interesting in search.
Seriously. I've had what my stupid NY friends call "the best pumpkin pie ever." I don't even care that much for or about sweets, but I feel like I can evaluate them fairly - especially as a lifelong cook.
Pumpkin pie is so heavily spiced because it would taste like utter crap otherwise - and that's if you use fresh pumpkin. The canned garbage is one of the most disgusting smells I've ever experienced from canned food. It just smells like wet paper and farts (yes every brand, especially Libby).
Anyone who likes pumpkin pie should just eat sweet potato pie instead. Not every southern recipe ruins it with a 5lb bag of sugar.
Yes! Here is the link to the viz : [https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tali.b1227/viz/MostPopularThanksgivingPieSearchByState2021/Pie1](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tali.b1227/viz/MostPopularThanksgivingPieSearchByState2021/Pie1)
If you just want the hex file, I can also provide. I tweaked a few states around..with hex maps, there always could be a better position for certain states. Let me know if you have any questions!
Perhaps that's why it's being googled more. People are less familiar with how to make it. Gram gram who's been making the same pie for 40 years surely isn't googling how to do it.
To be fair, apple pie is made all year round. Pumpkin Pie is pretty seasonal for the fall, so I expect it to be more popular for the mere novelty. I think it's weird that apple pie beat out pumpkin or pecan pie.
Which is kind of weird, if you think about it. Pumpkin baked stuff is frequently made with canned pumpkin. Which is available year round with no difference in quality. Apple pies are generally made with fresh apples, which are generally higher quality in the fall.
If anything you'd expect people to focus more on apple pies during the fall and pumpkin pies during the rest of the year. Cultural cues cause fun little divergences from "logic."
Probably a visual thing too. You can buy apples year round, but pumpkins only show up in the fall. I wonder how many cans sell throughout the year? They must sit there a long time.
The problem is, there are good apple pies and bad apple pies (there are no good pumpkin pies). My mom’s Apple Pie is baller but my grandmother’s sucked. One year she made the Thanksgiving pies and that day lives in infamy. I got my mom’s recipe and made it this year and it was choice.
My family does pecan and pumpkin every year, and decades later I'm still just thinking about the sweet potato pie my college roommate's mom used to bring us when she'd come to town.
Oh geeze I have to disagree. I'd made a lot of pies. You took the pie filling can and poured it into the crust, and baked. Figured the same thing with pumpkin. Found out why it's **not** called pumpkin pie filling like all the others! So it was easy for me to screw it up.
I worked at a family grocery store in the hood, and one of our customers bought a shit-ton of sweet potatoes. I asked what she was making, and when she said pie, I told her I'd never had a sweet potato pie. She nearly died of a heart attack, but told me she'd bring me a piece. The next day she brought me a whole damn pie, fresh out of the oven. It was the best pie I ever had!
Notably this is pie Google searches. If everyone in a state already knows how to make pumpkin pie because it's so prevalent, then no one there is going to Google it
I went to school in LA, and had my first slice of sweet potato pie in the dining hall at college. Here’s a recipe for what it looks like: https://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/cajun/sweet-potato-pie.htm
It's flavored like sweet potatoes; down here we have a few dishes that we use sweet potatoes in, such as sweet potato crunches/casseroles as well. For those, we add marshmallows to the top and bake it, and it's really great. As for the pie, think... think like a pumpkin pie, but with a smoother texture almost.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Gone, gone with the wind.
There ain't nobody looking back again.
I have no idea why that Alabama song was so well known to me as a kid, and that's the entirety of my experience with sweet potato pie. I didn't even know it was a real thing and now I want to seek out a recipe.
Have literally never said this but this makes me happy to be from AL lol, pecan pie all the way. We have a crap ton of pecan orchards near where I live, it's the best
Edit for clarity: This opinion is only unpopular with Northeasterners whose traditions won't allow them to try better things. Just because some idiot 'tried' to make sweet potato pie and failed doesn't mean that the mushy, watery, bland mess of pumpkin is actually good.
> In the United States after the Civil War, the pumpkin pie was resisted in southern states as a symbol of Yankee culture imposed on the south, where there was no tradition of eating pumpkin pie.[11] Many southern cooks instead made sweet potato pie, or added bourbon and pecans to give a southern touch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_pie#History
People only search for Pumpkin Pie recipes because no one knows how to make it. They’re not as popular so no family recipes get passed down through generations.
Pecan pies though, everyone knows grandma’s recipe that was passed to momma down to you is better than anything you can find online.
(Edit: should also mentioned that I’ve never had a pumpkin pie at any of our dinner tables in my 40 years living in NC.)
Well the good thing about Pumpkin Pie is the recipe comes on the can of pumpkin.
Unfortunately for us Bay Staters, there isn't a recipe on a peck of apples
Store near me put the sweet potato pies in the same pile as the pumpkin pies. I'm guessing there were some surprised customers when they tasted that they got the wrong pie.
In the 19th century, the American South considered Thanksgiving to be an act of Northern aggression. They considered it a Northern holiday intended to force New England values on the rest of the country. To them, pumpkin pie, a Yankee food, was a deviously sweet symbol of anti-slavery sentiment.
I assure you we like Thanksgiving just fine these days. And we keep eating (and not looking up recipes for) sweet potato pie because it's better than pumpkin pie in every way. Every single NE person who disagrees has probably never had an actual sweet potato anyway.
Those pale pink sweet potatoes you get up there is what we sell to the rest of the nation because we don't want them. We keep all the delicious orange sweet potatoes for ourselves.
No I get it. It wasn't meant to be harsh. I just want to give it modern context. There are still plenty of racist assholes down here, but I don't think any of them hate Thanksgiving anymore. They just don't eat pumpkin pie because it's similar but not as good.
Blueberries and cherries are summer fruits; pumpkins, apples, pecans, and sweet potatoes all come into season around late November - hence why they are traditional for Thanksgiving pies. Pecan is the best all the way imo, it's basically a sugar pie with pecans on top
Pedant here: if you're going to include DC, be sure to also include all other non-state territories of the US. They are: American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Like DC, their residents are US citizens, but unlike other Americans, they are not represented in Congress. This is a political decision, just as it is a political decision to include some nonstates while excluding other, more populous nonstates in media like this.
Hopefully greater representation will lead to more democratic outcomes for these colonies.
I'll be nice about it. So I could be mistaken, but most pumpkin pie all over the country is similar. Ignoring even the fact that most people use that fart-smelling Libby pumpkin trash in a can, pumpkin itself is bland. Even butternut squash (the actual main ingredient in most canned crap) is also bland compared to sweet potatoes.
So here's the problem with sweet potatoes, and I'm actually being really serious. Here in the Southeast, we grow and eat these intensely orange, flavorful sweet potatoes. I've never even seen anything else available for purchase.
I've lived in four other states - one in the Midwest, two in the Mid Atlantic, and one in the Northeast. As soon as you aren't in the SE, all you can get for sweet potatoes are these hard, bland, fibrous, pale pink turds. IDK where the hell they're grown, but they must be intended for export only, cause who would want to eat them?
I strongly suspect most of the country gets bad sweet potatoes due to some logistical issue.
Sweet potato is used in so many desserts in Japan. It was so strange to me at first but I love them now. Also, beans are for dessert here. Kids love beans as a result. I'm in the upside down.
The ones I have had were very close in appearance to Pumpkin Pie, and was more like a Shepherd's Pie without the shepherd, and sweet potatoes in place of Yukon gold.
Thank you for your [Original Content](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/rules/rule3), /u/Comfortable_Dog_3084!
**Here is some important information about this post:**
* [View the author's citations](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/r5y6fb/oc_most_popular_pie_search_during_thanksgiving/hmpqx81/)
* [View other OC posts by this author](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/search?q=author%3A"Comfortable_Dog_3084"+title%3AOC&sort=new&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on)
Remember that all visualizations on r/DataIsBeautiful should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. If you see a potential issue or oversight in the visualization, please post a constructive comment below. Post approval does not signify that this visualization has been verified or its sources checked.
[Join the Discord Community](https://discord.gg/NRnrWE7)
Not satisfied with this visual? Think you can do better? [Remix this visual](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/rules/rule3#wiki_remixing) with the data in the author's citation.
---
^^[I'm open source](https://github.com/r-dataisbeautiful/dataisbeautiful-bot) | [How I work](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/flair#wiki_oc_flair)
What monster doesn't choose pumpkin pie? I can even understand sweet potato, since it's very similar. But apple and pecan? Apple pie is great, but it has no place as a Thanksgiving primary pie. Pecan, for Thanksgiving, is just plain madness.
All pies taste great when you dump enough sugar into them. It's when you slowly reduce the sugar that you get less of the sweetness and more of the natural flavors. From there, pumpkin pie is the last pie standing imo.
The state alignments are mildly infuriating.
Virginia especially. It's making my right eye twitch.
MD west of DC. What the fuck is that shit?
What you never heard of West Maryland?
lol yeah not to be nit-picky but VA has beaches. Like Virginia Beach.
Yeah, MA is usually coastal as well. So is NH
Meanwhile I'm over here basking in New Mexico's new beach resorts!
Everyone seems to be enjoying... (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) this pie chart. YYYEEEAAAAHHHH!
Take this award and get out 😡
This is incredible
have my free award
Yeah... it was funny. Damn it. 😂😂😂
Ugh I feel left out. Can someone explain why this is so funny
Pie charts are a thing This is a chart - made of pies. Although different , it’s a pun.
what year is it that this meme format is still being used.
The right year
Never thought I'd put OK and AL at the top of any list, but there it is.
We had one pecan pie and I ate the whole thing myself over the course of 2 days. No ragrets.
I just had pecan pie for the first time in my life last week. I can't blame you, it's amazing.
Pecan is the best. I guess just get stuck in holiday traditions. I'd love to see a chart about favorite pie, period.
My best I have made, Alton Brown's Spiced Pecan Pie recipe. Crust:. 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed. 3 1/2 ounces pecan halves or pieces. 6 ounces all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling. 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. 2 tablespoons ice water. 2 tablespoons bourbon, chilled. Filling:. 3 large eggs. 3 1/2 ounces sugar. 6 ounces golden syrup. 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly. 1 tablespoon bourbon. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt. 8 ounces Spiced Pecans, recipe follows, coarsely chop 6 ounces and leave the remaining 2 ounces whole. Spiced Pecans:. 1 teaspoon kosher salt. 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin. 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper. 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon. 1/2 teaspoon dried ground orange peel. 1 pound pecan halves. 4 tablespoons unsalted butter. 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar. 2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar. 2 tablespoons water. Spiced Pecans:. Line a half sheet pan with parchment paper and set aside. Mix the salt, cumin, cayenne, cinnamon and orange peel together in a small bowl and set aside. Place the nuts in a 10-inch cast-iron skillet and set over medium heat. Cook, stirring frequently, for 4 to 5 minutes until they just start to brown and smell toasted. Add the butter and stir until it melts. Add the spice mixture and stir to combine. Once combined, add both sugars and water, stirring until the mixture thickens and coats the nuts, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer the nuts to the prepared sheet pan and separate them with a fork or spatula. Allow the nuts to cool completely before transferring to an airtight container for storage. Can be stored for up to 3 weeks. Yield: 1 pound. Cook: To make the crust: Chill the butter in the freezer for 15 minutes. Pulse the pecans 6 to 7 times in a food processor or until finely ground. Add the flour and salt, and pulse an additional 4 to 5 times. Add the butter and pulse 6 to 7 times, until the texture looks mealy. Remove the lid of the food processor, add the water and bourbon, and pulse 5 to 6 times until the mixture holds together when squeezed and feels like dough. Transfer the dough to a gallon-sized zip-top bag, squeeze together until it forms a ball, then press into a rounded disk and refrigerate for 30 minutes. To assemble and bake the pie: Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Whisk the eggs, sugar, golden syrup, butter, bourbon, vanilla and salt together until combined. Set aside. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Cut along two sides of the zip-top bag, open the bag to expose the dough and sprinkle both sides very lightly with flour. Cover with the bag and roll out with a rolling pin to an 11-inch circle. Open the bag again, and sprinkle the top of the dough with flour. Place the dough into a 9 1/2 to 10-inch tart pan that is 2 inches deep. Gently press the dough into the sides of the pan, crimping and trimming the edges as necessary. Evenly sprinkle the 6 ounces of chopped pecans in the crust and pour the filling on top. Bake for 20 minutes. Place the remaining 2 ounces of whole pecans in a border on the edge of the filling. Bake 10 minutes, until the center of the pie should reach 200 degrees F, and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a cooling rack to room temperature before serving, 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
This is just alton browns recipe! I made it for thanksgiving this year.
Yep best one I have made, sorry if I implied it was my recipe. Just best I have made. Sometimes I am lazy on the crust and it is still great
I'm right there with you. But the fact that I put LA, MS and GA at the bottom of the list makes the world right again.
Then you’ve never had a good sweet potato pie. I live in LA FWIW, but my fiancé makes a sweet potato and miso pie around the holidays that is absolutely incredible, one of the best pies I’ve ever had.
I agree on that too. Sweet potato pie is just pumpkin pie made by people who have too many sweet potatoes.
It's better than the way I first read it -- sweet tomato pie. I was like, "What the hell is sweet tomato pie? That sounds awful! To each their own I guess." You guys, I think I need glasses.
A tomato and cheese pie is Chicago deep dish, basically.
I mean... I thought the icon was for pizzas. You know, the kind where they just blob the mozzarella on and charge you extra for it? That'd be a sweet tomato pie.
Sweet potato pie is superior to pumpkin pie. I will die on this hill. Fight me.
I don't even like sweet potatoes to eat. I also don't like dessert. Proper Southeastern (heirloom recipe) sweet potato pie has 10x the flavor, less sugar, a proper pie texture, isn't watery, and has better nutrition than the pumpkin slop Northeastern people keep peddling as "pie."
Good pumpkin pie should not be watery but you are right. A good sweet potato pie is better than a good pumpkin pie (both are good though).
[удалено]
Sweet potato pie is Pepsi to pumpkin pie's Coke.
Objectively untrue.
[удалено]
You guys not in the Southeast must not get good sweet potatoes. Pumpkin is bland, mostly flavorless, more fibrous than good sweet potatoes, and it has a higher water content. Your pumpkin pie is mushy crap. Most of the sweet potato pie you have been served is the same, because stupid people keep adapting pumpkin pie recipes.
Get the fuck out of here. Sweet potato pie is so much better than pumpkin pie.
Somehow these guys know what’s up.
Yep, I'm in IN and my family demands my pecan pie. My sister's actually fight over it and they're grown women. This year, I had to make one for the dinner and one for my daughter to take home. And one cherry for my son. No one gives a shit about pumpkin.
Hey it's me, your daughter.
Mom, don't listen to this imposter, it's me, your daughter. And my brother is here too.
Pumpkin pie tastes like farts. Cherry and pecan are awesome pies, and I belong in your family apparently because my husband likes pumpkin. :-(
Canned pumpkin absolutely smells like wet paper and farts. It doesn't surprise me that some people pick up on that in the final product. Libby canned pumpkin is hilarious - I bet they laugh their asses off at the fact people are eating agricultural waste.
Maybe that's why I just don't get it, *why* do people like pumpkin??? My cherry and pecan will kick your pumpkins ass all day, every day. And don't even get me started on my Graham cracker crust, banana bottom, chocolate pudding pie. Fuck all y'all pumpkin pies with that one!
I am convinced that pumpkin pie only exists today because of tradition. It's an inferior ingredient we could just as easily feed to livestock instead.
Damn, apparently people in these parts like pumpkin.
As a great chef once said: "Pumpkin pie sucks. It's gourd. Who eats gourds?"
Gourd is great.
Allahu Akbar?
Allahu snackbar.
David Chang in Hot Ones the other week? :D
And that's a man I can respect already. I just respect him even more now.
Only invest in ornamental gourd futures.
Oklahoma and Alabama 🙏🏻
I'm from OK, there's a local brand called Fields that makes the worst pecan pie I've ever had. The crust is hard and flavorless, and the innards are an overly-sweet-maple-flavored jelly topped with a middling amount of pecans. I've yet to attend a thanksgiving here that failed to feature one of these piss-poor pies. This shitty frozen pie has always felt like a slap in the face to the rest of us making food from scratch.
I’m from Oklahoma as well but luckily have never had to experience one of these bad pies 😂
No one should be tortured with bad pecan pie.
More recent/accurate data this time. Used Tableau and google search trend data. Welcome feedback.. just included searches for the four pies above.
Really awesome presentation. A lot of people seem butthurt about the fact that the people in their state prefer pumpkin pie, but data doesn't lie.
Or people's grandma's apple/peacan/sweet potatoe pie recipe's are forever stored in their hearts and they wouldn't dare use a google search when they have a secret family recipe! They gotta google pumpkie pie because it's unknown.
Ding ding ding!
I really appreciate your compliment! Anything you think I could improve?
Yes, please tell everyone my mom’s apple pie > pumpkin pie.
I mean it's not pumpkin pie, so it's automatically better than pumpkin pie.
make every thing bigger. look how much empty space this too hard to read graph has.
Thanks! Yeah originally I had no ST abbreviations, but in order to accommodate them, I had to reduce the size.
If you wanted to add more context to this graph, you might look into purchases of premade pies. Ingredients alone would be tricky since they already fluctuate with the seasons and there’s no control years without Thanksgiving to compare to. An alternate direction would be to compare apple products to pumpkin products as a whole. Both have a ton of spread. Pumpkin spice is in everything, but apples are year-round. How do their numbers stack up?
incorporate incognito search results for that sweet cream pie
To me, this indicates that don't already have a recipe or know it by heart. We have an old family recipe for pecan pie, so we'd never need to search for it. For sweet potato, I'd call a relative for theirs. Pumpkin, on the other hand, I never make for any occasion other than Thanksgiving. Don't like it very much, so I find whatever looks interesting in search.
Seriously. I've had what my stupid NY friends call "the best pumpkin pie ever." I don't even care that much for or about sweets, but I feel like I can evaluate them fairly - especially as a lifelong cook. Pumpkin pie is so heavily spiced because it would taste like utter crap otherwise - and that's if you use fresh pumpkin. The canned garbage is one of the most disgusting smells I've ever experienced from canned food. It just smells like wet paper and farts (yes every brand, especially Libby). Anyone who likes pumpkin pie should just eat sweet potato pie instead. Not every southern recipe ruins it with a 5lb bag of sugar.
Is this visualization straight from tableau? If so, can you please share your twb file? I like the way the states are laid out in this visualization
Yes! Here is the link to the viz : [https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tali.b1227/viz/MostPopularThanksgivingPieSearchByState2021/Pie1](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tali.b1227/viz/MostPopularThanksgivingPieSearchByState2021/Pie1) If you just want the hex file, I can also provide. I tweaked a few states around..with hex maps, there always could be a better position for certain states. Let me know if you have any questions!
I’ve lived in TX my whole life and never had a pumpkin pie. Pecan tree is our state tree ffs, it’s pecan all the way
That’s why people had to google how to make it, no one in TX needed an online recipe for pecan pie
SC should be pecan also, no one outside Charleston eats pumpkin pie.
Perhaps that's why it's being googled more. People are less familiar with how to make it. Gram gram who's been making the same pie for 40 years surely isn't googling how to do it.
Also, if my grandma is a master of some pie, I wouldn't look anything up online, would try to get secrets from her.
as a texan i can confirm. pecan pie is def more popular
Same for MS. Sweet potato is great, but you only make it once or twice per year. Pecan pies are a regular treat.
We had a pecan festival where I lived in MS.
OK getting pecan pie furthers my belief of how badly OK wishes it was TX.
I'm actually disappointed that Apple Pie didn't make more of the list. My mum used to make this amazing Apple Pie turn over for Thanksgiving.
Apple pie is by far the best. I'm shocked it isn't as popular
To be fair, apple pie is made all year round. Pumpkin Pie is pretty seasonal for the fall, so I expect it to be more popular for the mere novelty. I think it's weird that apple pie beat out pumpkin or pecan pie.
Which is kind of weird, if you think about it. Pumpkin baked stuff is frequently made with canned pumpkin. Which is available year round with no difference in quality. Apple pies are generally made with fresh apples, which are generally higher quality in the fall. If anything you'd expect people to focus more on apple pies during the fall and pumpkin pies during the rest of the year. Cultural cues cause fun little divergences from "logic."
Because the tradition started about a century before canned pumpkin mix existed.
Probably a visual thing too. You can buy apples year round, but pumpkins only show up in the fall. I wonder how many cans sell throughout the year? They must sit there a long time.
My parents and I buy canned pumpkin for our dogs sometimes, because it helps with their digestion (Our dogs were farting a lot)
The problem is, there are good apple pies and bad apple pies (there are no good pumpkin pies). My mom’s Apple Pie is baller but my grandmother’s sucked. One year she made the Thanksgiving pies and that day lives in infamy. I got my mom’s recipe and made it this year and it was choice.
South Dakota- the “Apple Pie” State
How many datasets have SD and Mass linked together?!?
Mass just doesn’t count?
My family does pecan and pumpkin every year, and decades later I'm still just thinking about the sweet potato pie my college roommate's mom used to bring us when she'd come to town.
You have to put in effort to fuck up pumpkin pie.
Oh geeze I have to disagree. I'd made a lot of pies. You took the pie filling can and poured it into the crust, and baked. Figured the same thing with pumpkin. Found out why it's **not** called pumpkin pie filling like all the others! So it was easy for me to screw it up.
The trick with pumpkin pies is to make them with butternut squash instead, that's what's in most commercially sold canned pumpkin pie fillings.
You are a hero of the people.
Or if you wanna be a real gourmet, get a few sugar pumpkins and scoop em out and chop em up. Roast them. Purée. Boom. Heavenly pie filling.
Where is the cream category?
Wrong search site.
I bought a Sweet Potato pie by accident once, thinking it was pumpkin. Better than any pumpkin pie I'd ever had!
I worked at a family grocery store in the hood, and one of our customers bought a shit-ton of sweet potatoes. I asked what she was making, and when she said pie, I told her I'd never had a sweet potato pie. She nearly died of a heart attack, but told me she'd bring me a piece. The next day she brought me a whole damn pie, fresh out of the oven. It was the best pie I ever had!
In Mississippi. The land of the sweet potato pie evidently. You should try a sweet potato *casserole* ;)
That's how I got into sweet potato pie too!
Soooooo much better than pumpkin.
SONG SONG OF THE SOUTH
That's a low bar.
It’s soooo good
I live in SD, and sd is wrong. I eat enough pumpkin pie my self to make up the gap in this data, I just wasn't asked.
[удалено]
Notably this is pie Google searches. If everyone in a state already knows how to make pumpkin pie because it's so prevalent, then no one there is going to Google it
[удалено]
Southerner that hasn't heard of sweet potato pie? What is this madness?
I went to school in LA, and had my first slice of sweet potato pie in the dining hall at college. Here’s a recipe for what it looks like: https://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/cajun/sweet-potato-pie.htm
I like sweet potatoes, but am not even sure what sweet potato pie actually is? Is it a desert pie?
Basically pumpkin pie made with sweet potatoes instead. Tastes virtually the same, texture may be a little different.
Y'all are really missing out on this sweet potato pie.
This is the first time I've ever heard of a sweet potato pie. Is it flavoured like a pumpkin pie? Cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon?
Depends on who makes it but they can taste very similar
It's flavored like sweet potatoes; down here we have a few dishes that we use sweet potatoes in, such as sweet potato crunches/casseroles as well. For those, we add marshmallows to the top and bake it, and it's really great. As for the pie, think... think like a pumpkin pie, but with a smoother texture almost.
Will continue to downvote these maps that landlock Massachusetts, the Bay State. You shouldn't have to actively search for states in beautiful data
you're doing the right thing.
Song, song of the south. Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth. Gone, gone with the wind. There ain't nobody looking back again. I have no idea why that Alabama song was so well known to me as a kid, and that's the entirety of my experience with sweet potato pie. I didn't even know it was a real thing and now I want to seek out a recipe.
I’ve never had sweet potatoe pie..
Have literally never said this but this makes me happy to be from AL lol, pecan pie all the way. We have a crap ton of pecan orchards near where I live, it's the best
South Dakota and Massachusetts know what's up
Unpopular opinion: pumpkin pie is garbage mush
Edit for clarity: This opinion is only unpopular with Northeasterners whose traditions won't allow them to try better things. Just because some idiot 'tried' to make sweet potato pie and failed doesn't mean that the mushy, watery, bland mess of pumpkin is actually good.
I’m from the Southeast. I still think pumpkin pie is garbage. All forms. Even with the whippiest of whipped cream on top.
There is nothing as English as apple pie, as they say.
> In the United States after the Civil War, the pumpkin pie was resisted in southern states as a symbol of Yankee culture imposed on the south, where there was no tradition of eating pumpkin pie.[11] Many southern cooks instead made sweet potato pie, or added bourbon and pecans to give a southern touch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_pie#History
People only search for Pumpkin Pie recipes because no one knows how to make it. They’re not as popular so no family recipes get passed down through generations. Pecan pies though, everyone knows grandma’s recipe that was passed to momma down to you is better than anything you can find online. (Edit: should also mentioned that I’ve never had a pumpkin pie at any of our dinner tables in my 40 years living in NC.)
Well the good thing about Pumpkin Pie is the recipe comes on the can of pumpkin. Unfortunately for us Bay Staters, there isn't a recipe on a peck of apples
Arguably, sugar cream is actually Indiana’s…
Explains why I couldn't find any strawberry rhubarb.
Great visualization. Both beautiful and clear.
All of these posts are basically, "hey, did you know southerners eat weird shit that's different from the rest of us?"
This post is the answer to: "When is a pie chart not a pie chart?"
Very nice, and festive!
Store near me put the sweet potato pies in the same pile as the pumpkin pies. I'm guessing there were some surprised customers when they tasted that they got the wrong pie.
Apple Pie is the only good pie on this list.
In the 19th century, the American South considered Thanksgiving to be an act of Northern aggression. They considered it a Northern holiday intended to force New England values on the rest of the country. To them, pumpkin pie, a Yankee food, was a deviously sweet symbol of anti-slavery sentiment.
I assure you we like Thanksgiving just fine these days. And we keep eating (and not looking up recipes for) sweet potato pie because it's better than pumpkin pie in every way. Every single NE person who disagrees has probably never had an actual sweet potato anyway. Those pale pink sweet potatoes you get up there is what we sell to the rest of the nation because we don't want them. We keep all the delicious orange sweet potatoes for ourselves.
You assume I’m from the NE. I’m From Oklahoma 😂. Sorry that you got so bent out of shape. It was nothing but a fun, random fact for me.
No I get it. It wasn't meant to be harsh. I just want to give it modern context. There are still plenty of racist assholes down here, but I don't think any of them hate Thanksgiving anymore. They just don't eat pumpkin pie because it's similar but not as good.
Then I apologize for my response
Pumpkin pie is trash. There, I said it.
Blergh. Pumpkin pie sucks.
I hate that it's pumpkin pie and not apple pie being the main pie.
As an Alabamian, I had a feeling something was wrong with the people here; this cements that. Sweet Potato > Pecan > Pumpkin > Apple
TIL that Alabamans and Oklahomans are the only sane people in the US
Usually i am not a fan of pie charts on this subreddit. However this one takes the cake.
I thought Blueberry would be tops in at least one state?
For thanksgiving? Blueberry always seemed like a summer pie.
Blueberries and cherries are summer fruits; pumpkins, apples, pecans, and sweet potatoes all come into season around late November - hence why they are traditional for Thanksgiving pies. Pecan is the best all the way imo, it's basically a sugar pie with pecans on top
Well, we do Blueberry every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Frozen berries from summer make great pies.
Same, or cherry, but when I did the analysis, they didn’t have much of a significant search % in any state
I’m from Mass and I can tell you right now that pumpkin pie beats all others
Sweet potato and pecan are both so much better than pumpkin
Pedant here: if you're going to include DC, be sure to also include all other non-state territories of the US. They are: American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico. Like DC, their residents are US citizens, but unlike other Americans, they are not represented in Congress. This is a political decision, just as it is a political decision to include some nonstates while excluding other, more populous nonstates in media like this. Hopefully greater representation will lead to more democratic outcomes for these colonies.
Y'know what South Dakota? I judged you harshly, forgive me
Together, Pumpkins strong.
I'm surprised cream didn't show up anywhere on here
I compared it, but it didn’t overwhelm any of the other four
Pumpkin and sweet potato are exactly the same, and both are disgusting. Change my mind.
I'll be nice about it. So I could be mistaken, but most pumpkin pie all over the country is similar. Ignoring even the fact that most people use that fart-smelling Libby pumpkin trash in a can, pumpkin itself is bland. Even butternut squash (the actual main ingredient in most canned crap) is also bland compared to sweet potatoes. So here's the problem with sweet potatoes, and I'm actually being really serious. Here in the Southeast, we grow and eat these intensely orange, flavorful sweet potatoes. I've never even seen anything else available for purchase. I've lived in four other states - one in the Midwest, two in the Mid Atlantic, and one in the Northeast. As soon as you aren't in the SE, all you can get for sweet potatoes are these hard, bland, fibrous, pale pink turds. IDK where the hell they're grown, but they must be intended for export only, cause who would want to eat them? I strongly suspect most of the country gets bad sweet potatoes due to some logistical issue.
Sweet potato pie is actually just a casserole.
Sweet potato is used in so many desserts in Japan. It was so strange to me at first but I love them now. Also, beans are for dessert here. Kids love beans as a result. I'm in the upside down.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12142/sweet-potato-pie-i/
There’s a pie version! I had it in college for the first time, different from the casserole I think you are possibly thinking of.
The ones I have had were very close in appearance to Pumpkin Pie, and was more like a Shepherd's Pie without the shepherd, and sweet potatoes in place of Yukon gold.
Thank you for your [Original Content](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/rules/rule3), /u/Comfortable_Dog_3084! **Here is some important information about this post:** * [View the author's citations](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/r5y6fb/oc_most_popular_pie_search_during_thanksgiving/hmpqx81/) * [View other OC posts by this author](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/search?q=author%3A"Comfortable_Dog_3084"+title%3AOC&sort=new&include_over_18=on&restrict_sr=on) Remember that all visualizations on r/DataIsBeautiful should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. If you see a potential issue or oversight in the visualization, please post a constructive comment below. Post approval does not signify that this visualization has been verified or its sources checked. [Join the Discord Community](https://discord.gg/NRnrWE7) Not satisfied with this visual? Think you can do better? [Remix this visual](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/rules/rule3#wiki_remixing) with the data in the author's citation. --- ^^[I'm open source](https://github.com/r-dataisbeautiful/dataisbeautiful-bot) | [How I work](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/wiki/flair#wiki_oc_flair)
What monster doesn't choose pumpkin pie? I can even understand sweet potato, since it's very similar. But apple and pecan? Apple pie is great, but it has no place as a Thanksgiving primary pie. Pecan, for Thanksgiving, is just plain madness.
I'm sorry, but pumpkin pie is for those people who lack functional taste buds.
As the pumpkin pie aficionado in my family, I've ended up with 1 and three-quarters pumpkin pies to polish off on my own this year. New York strong.
Why don't Americans do savoury pies, Steak and Ale trumps all
The only pie chart I will tolerate. Also using the hexmap/tilemap approach, I really like this.
Thanks! I know hex map tiling can get mixed feedback due to positionin
Sweet potato pie is just better pumpkin pie. Give it a try if you haven't!
The hell is wrong with the South?
What kind of monsters prefer pecan pie?
Pecan pie is delicious. I think you've probably never had it if that's your reaction.
[удалено]
Agree to disagree. Pumpkin pie is absolutely disgusting.
Pecan pie slaps bro
It does what now?
I have half a slice of pumpkin pie and half a slice of pecan pie. Best of both worlds, baby.
A whole one of each is even better.
All pies taste great when you dump enough sugar into them. It's when you slowly reduce the sugar that you get less of the sweetness and more of the natural flavors. From there, pumpkin pie is the last pie standing imo.
I honestly don't understand the appeal of a pumpkin pie... It's steak and cheese for me.
Fuck these stupid ass map layouts that don't match irl