Great Caesar's ghost - hand me my smelling salts! And this is why I am half-fainting right here at the keyboard. Briefly - I came across what I thought of as a lovely compromise pie (more of which in a minute) and, spurred on as always, to be accurate I delved into the online belly of the beast known as Google. I wanted to make sure that pumpkin was the pie of tradition and, more importantly, by how much.
Brace yourselves:
Apple 20%
Strawberry 19% (and don't mortgage the house to pay for them in the Northeast)
Pumpkin (a respectable third) 16%
Cherry 13%
Blueberry 9%
Pecan and Lemon Meringue tied at 8%
Chocolate 5% in
Unwelcome statistics indeed. And here I thought I'd found the perfect compromise...
PECAN PUMPKIN PIE
Layer by layer, we discover - bottom layer, the crust of choice (store-bought Graham cracker here)
Spread carefully over it, the pumpkin mixture, all smoothed out to receive the final layer - the pecan mixture gently made to nestle atop the pumpkin.
This would have seemed to be a nearly perfect finish to the traditional turkey dinner. Especially since pumpkin is 16th in popularity and pecan 8% for a total of 24%. Take that apple pie.
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