Why Black People love Sweet Potato Pie

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @mstaytaye115
    @mstaytaye115 Год назад +483

    My mom used to make sweet potato pie every thanksgiving and Christmas. My family will fight over the last piece of the pie so she made everyone their own pie. I miss her so much 🥺🥺

    • @carolyngardner4999
      @carolyngardner4999 Год назад +10

      Tay Taye my mother did the same thing but she made the small sweet potatoes pie.

    • @p.gizzle90
      @p.gizzle90 Год назад +9

      My gma did the same thing. Bc it use to b damn near a brawl over her pie. Argue all day bout it🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️😅…not me cus ion like it! Hate Sweet Potato’s of any kind

    • @nicoleraheem1195
      @nicoleraheem1195 Год назад +7

      I like that she was considerate and loving enough to make each of them their own pie. ❤

    • @nineteenfortyeight
      @nineteenfortyeight Год назад +2

      A smart lady

    • @jayov4044
      @jayov4044 Год назад +1

  • @sill1chi
    @sill1chi Год назад +549

    I'm black, and I like and make both pies. The ingredients are the same. I stepped out of my comfort zone and made a butternut squash pie using the same ingredients. It was very good. Don't let people put you in a box.

    • @seanswinton6242
      @seanswinton6242 Год назад +8

      That works! I first had butternut squash when Kenny Rogers' Roasters restaurant had it in a casserole. Ever since then, I've eaten both butternut squash and sweet potato.

    • @lm9712
      @lm9712 Год назад +20

      I learned that canned pumpkins are more butternut squash than pumpkin so makes sense.

    • @scottowensbyable
      @scottowensbyable Год назад +25

      ​@L M My father once told me that most of the canned pumpkin sold in stores was cushaw squash. I raise gardens and try many varieties of squash and melons not sold to the public. Most all of the fruits and vegetables that are grown commercially are developed for high yield and long trucking life. Some taste and texture is lost. Many of the old varieties have the better flavors. My garden is a mixture of native American, African and old European varieties. I enjoy something from everywhere.

    • @lm9712
      @lm9712 Год назад +8

      @@scottowensbyable sounds like you have a wonderful garden. I'm still working on my indoor greenthumb in a desert region.

    • @kevinwhite3237
      @kevinwhite3237 Год назад +11

      Thank you for this. I hate when folks pigeonhole a group of people for dumb shit like this topic.

  • @WJW41528
    @WJW41528 Год назад +270

    Sweet potato PIE, sweet potato FRIES, sweet potato PANCAKES...LOVE sweet potatoes cooked any way!

    • @laryanryan9170
      @laryanryan9170 Год назад +8

      Sweet potato pancakes are good as f. I don't care for the fries tho. Give me regular seasoned fries.

    • @alphaomega1351
      @alphaomega1351 Год назад +3

      Sweet! 😶

    • @Typical.Anomaly
      @Typical.Anomaly Год назад +9

      Mashed with brown sugar and butter

    • @WJW41528
      @WJW41528 Год назад +3

      @@Travelbug92 OH I must try, thank you!

    • @sassyluv1242
      @sassyluv1242 Год назад

      Its sad they did that to the real Jews by putting them in slavery

  • @patrickdavenport6254
    @patrickdavenport6254 Год назад +435

    If there is any way that we can stop having one person describe us as if we're all the same in every way, that would be great.

    • @blenderbanana
      @blenderbanana Год назад

      Don't worry
      His next video is "Taking the N-Word back, from the white man!"

    • @thatgirlinokc3975
      @thatgirlinokc3975 Год назад +49

      Thank you! We are all individuals with so many other factors that determine our likes and dislikes. This title is reductive

    • @patrickdavenport6254
      @patrickdavenport6254 Год назад +39

      @@thatgirlinokc3975 I'm tired of it. I just call them out at this point. We can't expect other people to see our diversity if we keep reinforcing that there is none.

    • @MrEazyE357
      @MrEazyE357 Год назад +11

      Are you saying Blackness is not a monolith?

    • @SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648
      @SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648 Год назад +6

      @@patrickdavenport6254 You've got a point there, same as not all white people are the same. There are black people with ancestries from different regions and tribes in Africa, and there are white people with ancestries from various regions around the world. The main determiner of skin melanin content (darkness) with respect to ancestral region is that more melanin tends to mean an ancestry close to the equator, which is something science showed us and has a good explanation for. The more direct sun, the more melanin needed to protect the skin, and vice versa. Global mingling is a factor of modern modes of travel that are capable of it.

  • @Sweetrottenapple
    @Sweetrottenapple Год назад +15

    I am white and I am from Europe. I am so glad I found channels like this one. The dark spot on history like slavery is not something I've been thought of in school. Thank you for the knowledge. ❤

  • @carolmerlini9971
    @carolmerlini9971 Год назад +232

    In 1969, I spent Thanksgiving with my parents in Delaware and then took the Amtrak Metroliner back to my home in New York City. As I was standing on the station platform in Wilmington holding the home-made Pumpkin Pie my mother had given me, I could see as it pulled into the station that the train coming from down south was very crowded and I worried I would have to stand all the way to New York. Fortunately, I found a seat next to a black guy traveling from Georgia and also going to NYC. And yes he had a pie on his lap. It was Sweet Potato. We talked the rest of the trip and he told me about some of the things mentioned here as to why his family preferred Sweet Potato Pie instead of Pumpkin. So I have known about this for a long time and this video brought back some very nice memories for me. Thanks for posting it.

    • @DerekWill-qp5ge
      @DerekWill-qp5ge Год назад

      Black people love to be blissfully ignorant! And are cowardly and stubborn to try new things! I would know! Because I was the same way! However pumpkin pie rules! 😂 Lol 😆😆😆

    • @maried3717
      @maried3717 Год назад +41

      If you ever tasted a sweet potato pie, you're gonna it's superior to pumpkin pie. And I'm not black.

    • @DerekWill-qp5ge
      @DerekWill-qp5ge Год назад +10

      @@maried3717what part of my text mentioned that I never eat sweet potato pie? And I am still black! Lol 🤣🤣🤣

    • @dnitagill7
      @dnitagill7 Год назад +17

      Not all Black People love Sweet Potato Pie....I grew up in the North my Maternal Grannie was from Louisiana she cooked for a living and when she cooked she cooked , she learned how to bake Sweet Potato Pie and Pumpkin Pie in Louisiana my mother followed in her foot steps when it came to baking pies.
      During Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday several pies were baked back then,
      I tasted my first sweet potato pie at a very young age as well as pumpkin and to this day I will take pumpkin pie over sweet potato pie any day .....if you know the secret to preparing a good pumpkin pie you can bake both types of pie and you can't tell the difference between sweet potato and pumpkin pie 💜 my granny ate sweet potatoes with all her meals daily.
      Rich in vitamin A
      sweet potatoes and pumpkin!:) 💜

    • @Yofatima
      @Yofatima Год назад

      w h o l e s o m e

  • @thegiftedseer6764
    @thegiftedseer6764 Год назад +173

    I eat pumpkin pie and drink pumpkin latte; speak for yourself 😂

    • @theninjacat7200
      @theninjacat7200 Год назад +9

      I eat sweet potato pie...and love spiced pumpkin latte with lots of whipped cream!!! : )

    • @lavender6500
      @lavender6500 Год назад +16

      Pumpkin candles. The whole nine yards!

    • @noahbarnhartandit2365
      @noahbarnhartandit2365 Год назад +14

      That being said, a sweet potato spice latte would be fire

    • @mrmacho41
      @mrmacho41 Год назад

      I'm not going to lie I got my Cali white girl on this past holiday season. That pumpkin spice latte was hittin.

    • @pamelamays4186
      @pamelamays4186 Год назад +1

      My Mamma made lots of pumpkin pies.

  • @rollingrocker666
    @rollingrocker666 Год назад +450

    Seeing people who are grossed out by either pumpkin or sweet potato yet love the opposite is as weird as seeing those who hate Pepsi but love Coke.

    • @sammyk702
      @sammyk702 Год назад +49

      They taste different pumpkin isn't as sweet and the spice throws it way off. Pepsi on the other hand is not only sweet as hell it has more caffeine than coke and it goes flat faster

    • @Call-me-Al
      @Call-me-Al Год назад +5

      I don't hate pepsi but the default pepsi is only for a sip or two before it's too much sweetness, while the default coca cola is for drinking more of. Pepsi twist (extra lemon flavour) was really good though. It was more lemony than coke which I appreciated.
      I have never had pumpkin pie nor sweet potato pie, but I love making savory soup with both of them mixed together with stock and herbs, and some toasted seeds or nuts sprinkled on top.

    • @mc365mc
      @mc365mc Год назад +14

      ​@@sammyk702 They taste 99% the same to me only when extremely cold like on the verge of freezing I can tell and prefer Pepsi, coke taste more syrupy and pepsi has more carbonation bite.

    • @sunrae7680
      @sunrae7680 Год назад +5

      Love Pepsi and hate coke.😀

    • @serenityq26
      @serenityq26 Год назад +2

      pepsi and coke are the same, pumpkin and sweet potatoe are not.........

  • @Brambrew
    @Brambrew Год назад +146

    Fun fact: what's advertised as Libby's canned "pumpkin" or "100% pumpkin pie" is in reality a mixture of Dickinson squash, winter squash, butternut squash, sugar squash, and acorn squash. But because they're close cousins of the pumpkin family, the FDA lets the "pumpkin" label slide. Actual pumpkin is almost never used. My life is a lie.

    • @danbev8542
      @danbev8542 Год назад +2

      I have heard the same, but could not list all the vegetables.

    • @Brambrew
      @Brambrew Год назад +6

      @Dan Bev
      Technically they're fruit though. They're gourds.
      But yes indeed, I'm always happy to help.

    • @rebeccahicks2392
      @rebeccahicks2392 Год назад +6

      Dickinson squash is a type of pumpkin. It's usually called Dickinson pumpkin. There are different species of squash that get called "pumkins", that's why it's so complicated.

    • @earthwyrm6756
      @earthwyrm6756 Год назад +6

      Pumpkins ARE squashes: *Cucurbita pepo.*

    • @Brambrew
      @Brambrew Год назад +13

      @@earthwyrm6756
      Yeah, of course
      Pumpkins are squashes
      But not all squashes are pumpkins

  • @clarissathompson
    @clarissathompson Год назад +26

    Thank you for the history lesson! Though I will add that Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was not an American story. Roald Dahl was a British author and the chocolate factory angle was inspired by his experiences as a young teen working in the Cadbury’s factory in Derbyshire. Also, his first name has no “n”. Roald, is pronounced like “row-ald”

    • @deboralee1623
      @deboralee1623 Год назад +2

      thought i imagined hearing "Ronald" not "Roald". nope.

  • @janicefrost4190
    @janicefrost4190 Год назад +1257

    Because sweet potato pie taste much better.

    • @J-Hue
      @J-Hue Год назад +80

      Better taste and better texture.

    • @lamelwinston7101
      @lamelwinston7101 Год назад +36

      Easy answer, dont think this needs a video but ok.

    • @tay4093
      @tay4093 Год назад +62

      im full nigga but i love pumpkin pie that shit is good idc love my sweet potato tho

    • @cuturu8724
      @cuturu8724 Год назад +12

      Case closed lmaooo

    • @FredJ2091
      @FredJ2091 Год назад +2

      Ahahaaa!!!

  • @angelagoodwin5758
    @angelagoodwin5758 Год назад +425

    I'm black, and I like both, but sweet potato pie is the pie of choice in my family.

    • @SitchCorp
      @SitchCorp Год назад +5

      I'm black and I don't like either--I can't tell the difference.

    • @oceanlover2426
      @oceanlover2426 Год назад +14

      I’m also black and I love both. I think that many people just don’t make pumpkin pie “right” to my taste buds, but made right, it’s so delicious to me. I love my yam and cassava too.

    • @dulcilass
      @dulcilass Год назад +10

      I'm white and I love sweet potato pie. I think of the two pies, it's my favorite. I like sweet potatoes baked, boiled, broiled, candied, mashed, as fries, in cakes, as sweet potato butter, etc and so on. In pies is just another way to serve one of my favorite foods. I only eat pumpkin in pie form.

    • @janschild
      @janschild Год назад +1

      Same here.

    • @Rastaferrari829
      @Rastaferrari829 Год назад +1

      @@Neil-ht8fv i don’t think it’s that serious lmao. They can taste pretty similar.

  • @dwaynejordan6750
    @dwaynejordan6750 Год назад +175

    My Family is Black and We Love "Pumpkin Pie" just like Potato salad it depends on Who made it 😅

    • @garymayfield5995
      @garymayfield5995 Год назад +17

      I'm Black and I agree 100%

    • @SclountDraxxer
      @SclountDraxxer Год назад +8

      I've never in my life had a good pumpkin pie. But to be fair, I've only ever had store bought trash. None of my white friends make it at home, either.

    • @brownamerican5786
      @brownamerican5786 Год назад +10

      I make a crazy good pumpkin cheese cake every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Love pumpkin pie!!!!!

    • @killmongermyhero1169
      @killmongermyhero1169 Год назад +10

      Nah someone not really black in here..Pumpkin pie over Sweet potato pie is one of the ways we can tell who is black or nah 😂

    • @francisturner2482
      @francisturner2482 Год назад +1

      Thank You 🙏🏿

  • @GirliP0p182
    @GirliP0p182 Год назад +6

    wait... what? I'm black and I've NEVER heard this. pumpkin pie is my (and my family's) favorite

  • @bobcarn
    @bobcarn Год назад +16

    I grew up eating pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, but I really do love both. My 90-year-old mom likes me to stick to traditions, which is why I keep having pumpkin pie even though I want to try sweet potato pie. She'll admit that even if she likes some other dish or recipe better, she likes to have the same ones as when she was growing up. Maybe this year I'll serve both!

    • @retrokidbk83
      @retrokidbk83 Год назад +1

      Make both one holiday and make a few for the fam (of both) do a blind taste test. I have my money on sweet potato pie lol. But try it for fun this holiday.

  • @lovingdensi2467
    @lovingdensi2467 Год назад +52

    I grew up eating sweet potato pie, my mom didn’t cook pumpkin pie. But as an adult, I like them both.

  • @greenbyrd3665
    @greenbyrd3665 Год назад +69

    I like both, but I think pumpkin has a milder, more bland flavor (no matter how many spices used). I'll eat either one though. I love pie.

    • @veronica-c8199
      @veronica-c8199 Год назад +1

      Same for me 🥧🙂

    • @firepuppies4086
      @firepuppies4086 Год назад +1

      Sweet potato is a bit more of a dessert by default.

    • @josephine4s
      @josephine4s Год назад

      Also, I think it usually has more sugar added to it to make up for that, as its more often almost too sweet, in contrast to sweet potato pie. I've also had chunks of pumpkin in soup before, and it was not that flavorful.

  • @Intentionaltia
    @Intentionaltia Год назад +158

    That sweet potato “pound” is called “sweet potato pudding” or “pone” in the Caribbean!

    • @nagone11
      @nagone11 Год назад +5

      Derived from the Portuguese word for bread called ''Pão" pronounced "Paouwwn" or Spanish called "Pan"

    • @denisebycapricorn
      @denisebycapricorn Год назад +16

      Pone is a North American Indian word for bread NOT Portuguese. Old Black Americans from the South would say Corn Pone. As for you foreigners, I doubt that anything you said is your own indigenous culture considering FBA were exiled to plantations on the island for being rebellious

    • @nagone11
      @nagone11 Год назад

      @@denisebycapricorn You are fuckin' up, first of all I'm FBA like a maahhfaka' and yes, the word is derived from that because it exists similarly in the Caribbean and South America...almost just like the path of the Atlantic slave trade. I speak Portuguese fluently and write it as well as Spanish and French Creole. I was born here in the states as well as all my people but have studied languages. You best get up on your history and study a bit more about the indigenous. Anyway I'm not here to get into any big debate with you but knowing the derivation of many words here come from those origins which make most of FBA of the diaspora..if you understand what I'm saying..

    • @charenzo95
      @charenzo95 Год назад +2

      My children prefer "tater pudding" to pie. I do too. 😁

    • @TommyStrategic
      @TommyStrategic Год назад +14

      Yes! We Gullah Geechee still make sweet potato pone (or poon, or ‘tato bread), and even still bake them slow in the skin, 😋

  • @maeylamoy8148
    @maeylamoy8148 Год назад +2

    We always had pumpkin pie and candied sweet potatoes for the holidays.

  • @renegadewolfhound8786
    @renegadewolfhound8786 Год назад +2

    Thank you for making your videos! I learn so much, and it pisses me off how many things are not taught in public schools.

  • @gwendolynhawkins4452
    @gwendolynhawkins4452 Год назад +80

    I'm an Afican American and I love sweet potatoes 🥔 any way they are prepared and pumpkin may not be everyone favorite buy it make a delicious bread.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 Год назад +2

      Pumpkin soup was a favorite of
      George Washington. So, pumpkins
      (and probably sweet potatoes)
      were being grown at Mt. Vernon
      in the 1700's.

    • @nashambenyisrael7689
      @nashambenyisrael7689 Год назад +10

      Facts pumpkin bread is so good especially with some
      Coffee or tea 😊

    • @Isinforblood
      @Isinforblood Год назад +3

      Sweet potatoes is legitimately my freaken favorite I can eat it with any food as a side lol

    • @shaundramanning769
      @shaundramanning769 Год назад +2

      I enjoy sweet potato pie, hands down. I, too, agree that pumpkin makes a better bread than pie.

    • @henriettaparks4266
      @henriettaparks4266 Год назад

      LIKE PUMPKIN SEEDS BREAD!! THATS IT!✔😂 MY PREFENCE SWEET POTATO PIE!!✔❤❤✔

  • @And3aPet
    @And3aPet Год назад +24

    Thank you for this bit of history! I actually like both pies but just thought they were different pies - like apple, blueberry etc. This historical context is fascinating - and I’ll think of it at least every thanksgiving. Oh, and I AM a white New Englander. I appreciate these looks into black history and culture. We’ve been ignorant of this part of American history for too long.

    • @patrickdavenport6254
      @patrickdavenport6254 Год назад

      Don't put too much into this. Many of us love pumpkin pie as well, or even prefer it.

  • @TheOtherSideoftheLookingGlass
    @TheOtherSideoftheLookingGlass Год назад +6

    *My Montserratian grandma would make both sweet potato pie and pumpkin pie for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. Her pumpkin pie is great! However, she makes her sweet potato pie with dark brown sugar instead of light and it is one of my top three favorite pies!!! It's amazing how one ingredient can completely change the taste of a dish! Absolutely delicious!* 🤤😋🥧

  • @johncremeans969
    @johncremeans969 Год назад +1

    Country boy you are doing great work talking about sensitive issue s with. calm Straightforward talk bravo

  • @johnschindler8433
    @johnschindler8433 Год назад +25

    In Baltimore, I met a vendor in a bus depot that sold mini versions of seasonal pies, each variety was tasty but I was really surprised and impressed by the Navy Bean Pie. Absolutely delicious 😋

    • @sunrae7680
      @sunrae7680 Год назад +5

      In Philly, the Muslims first sold bean pies. They are fire !! A cup of tea and a slice, relieves all of my stress.😀

    • @KlingonPrincess
      @KlingonPrincess Год назад +2

      I have got to look up a recipe for navy bean pie. I love beans of all types. Except for Lima beans 😁

    • @alienvomitsex
      @alienvomitsex Год назад

      The best city!

    • @drennyvision6141
      @drennyvision6141 Год назад +4

      No fair. Why can't Cleveland have a mini pie guy😢

    • @kimberlyrobinson3992
      @kimberlyrobinson3992 Год назад +3

      @@drennyvision6141 : Maybe YOU can be that pie guy for your city!

  • @dreajam870
    @dreajam870 Год назад +13

    I prefer pumpkin over sweet 🍠pie, because of the sweetness and the texture. I only eat sweet potato candied (a lil sticky & a lil burnt). Never knew the history behind it. Learn something everyday👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

  • @LAZ773
    @LAZ773 Год назад +39

    Depending on how well the pie is made determines if I will like it or not. Some people know how to make delicious pies and some people don't.

  • @davidb3852
    @davidb3852 Год назад +145

    Now I want some sweet potato pie hella bad

    • @nashambenyisrael7689
      @nashambenyisrael7689 Год назад +1

      Lol what do you think about pattie labelles sweet potato pie ?

    • @garymayfield5995
      @garymayfield5995 Год назад +1

      You can keep it

    • @rheddhawkmariea5875
      @rheddhawkmariea5875 Год назад

      You are probably a foreigner. Lol.

    • @earleneworrell
      @earleneworrell Год назад

      I don't care for it I wonder did someone drop a can of nutmeg in it never again.

    • @nashambenyisrael7689
      @nashambenyisrael7689 Год назад

      @@Neil-ht8fv trust me i agree my grandmother use to make them around fall season.

  • @CarolineBoyce1
    @CarolineBoyce1 Год назад +1

    I like both pumpkin and sweet potato pie! Thank you for this video! ❤

  • @eaglessixersfankeepingitre3247
    @eaglessixersfankeepingitre3247 Год назад +1

    I hear what you are saying but me being an American of African descent I grew up eating pumpkin pie in Pennsylvania, and I know fellow Americans of African descent who also delight in eating pumpkin pie. I eat sweet potato pie as well, but pumpkin is my first choice along with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream which compliments the pumpkin spice.

  • @Illstatefishing
    @Illstatefishing Год назад +238

    I love me some sweet potato pie!! 🥧 😋

  • @marcilk7534
    @marcilk7534 Год назад +8

    My boyfriend is Bahamian, not African American, but he’s mentioned at least a couple times that he loves sweet potatoes. When he comes to the US, I’m going to have to make sweet potato pie for him.

  • @VitaInDC
    @VitaInDC Год назад +4

    Fascinating! Especially the Willie Wonka background, wish that was included in your title for easy google or YT search.

  • @728huey
    @728huey Год назад +32

    There is a difference between pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie based on the nature of the vegetables themselves. Pumpkins are part of the squash family, and they're much like spaghetti squash, butternut squash, and zucchini while the sweet potato is a root vegetable, so the very texture is going to be different. However, they use much of the same spices to derive their flavor, so that's why most people see them similar in taste. BTW, when everyone goes nuts over "pumpkin spice" flavored stuff every fall, it's not that everything tastes like pumpkin; instead, it's the mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, and vanilla.

    • @shamarirose7288
      @shamarirose7288 Год назад

      Pumpkin is a fruit, sweet potatoes are vegetables.

    • @Munchkin.Of.Pern09
      @Munchkin.Of.Pern09 Год назад +4

      @@shamarirose7288 That is correct in a biology sense, but incorrect in a culinary sense. Context is important. You wouldn’t put pumpkins and tomatoes in a fruit salad.

    • @asafoetidajones8181
      @asafoetidajones8181 Год назад +3

      Pumpkin beer, which has actual pumpkin and not the pumpkin spice blend, tastes like ass.

    • @nahometesfay1112
      @nahometesfay1112 Год назад +1

      ​@@shamarirose7288sweet potatoes are tubers if we're getting technical.

  • @b.w.vanalstyne7197
    @b.w.vanalstyne7197 Год назад +51

    Very interesting history. I am black and I love pumpkin pie. In fact, I have created a maple walnut pumpkin pie recipe, which I make every season. I grew up in Boston and have always had pumpkin pie for holidays. My wife, who is from New Orleans, loves my pumpkin pie and makes me bake 1 or two, every year.

    • @InGrindWeCrust2010
      @InGrindWeCrust2010 Год назад +4

      Dang, that sounds good!

    • @theinvisiblewoman5709
      @theinvisiblewoman5709 Год назад +6

      That sounds good but I point out you had to add to the pumpkin a little something special to make it good. Sweet potatoes don’t need the extras but they are appreciated.

    • @InGrindWeCrust2010
      @InGrindWeCrust2010 Год назад +2

      @@theinvisiblewoman5709 Nah. My family doesn't make sweet potato pie right. Chock it down to us being white and Western/Rockies. Always missing something so it needs something, too. If the pumpkin doesn't have enough butter or cream or cinnamon and nutmeg and sugar it's missing something, too.

    • @Mr_Joseph979
      @Mr_Joseph979 Год назад +4

      I'm black and I love pumpkin pie but hate sweet potato pie. I would rather have sweet potato fries.
      Your ideas for pumpkin pie sounds delicious.

    • @pixiepanbookspublishing4289
      @pixiepanbookspublishing4289 Год назад +1

      @The Invisible Woman actually not. Instead of adding sugar, I substitute maple syrup. Both pies, traditionally, use sugar in the recipe.

  • @chocolatestraw3971
    @chocolatestraw3971 Год назад +23

    Interesting history about pie. I made sweet potato pie one year in the fall to see if it could be something I brought to my family's Thanksgiving, but to me it tasted just like pumpkin pie. A few weeks later, I was close to a food truck parked in a mall that was run by an older Black gentleman, and I saw he had sweet potato pie on the menu. I got my lunch and after finishing it went back to ask for a slice telling him about my attempt. He told me (nicely), "You must not have made it right," and he handed me a slice of his and told me to take a bite out of it. After I did, he said, "You can taste the difference now, can't you?" and grinned.
    "Sure can!" I lied, which pleased him. 😁
    I must not have a very developed palette.

    • @brycemedvin8765
      @brycemedvin8765 Год назад +5

      Worry not, the difference can be... very subtle.

    • @adambaum5824
      @adambaum5824 Год назад

      They taste the same to me, as well.

    • @daddiesgurl1968
      @daddiesgurl1968 Год назад +1

      The spices are the same; they might be different amounts.

  • @LexDiamond270
    @LexDiamond270 Год назад +175

    I eat both but most of my family you better not even think of offering some pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving 😂

    • @truthseeker9679
      @truthseeker9679 Год назад +9

      🤣😂🤣Amen!!!

    • @deloreswillis9224
      @deloreswillis9224 Год назад +8

      Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I feel you now

    • @deloreswillis9224
      @deloreswillis9224 Год назад +15

      I don’t care 4 pumpkin pie .. my family ALWAYS make sure we have several SWEET POTATO PIES

    • @Ladybhive71
      @Ladybhive71 Год назад +5

      💯. Now that pumpkin spice cake ain't no joke!

    • @TheAverageServant
      @TheAverageServant Год назад +16

      If u bringing pumpkin pie just say you don’t wanna bring nothing

  • @johnsummonsrevsummons7212
    @johnsummonsrevsummons7212 Год назад +23

    Im black and my mom raised us eating pumpkins and sweet potatoes but i like pumpkin pie better , my nine sisters and brothers like swee potatoes i guess its just a difference in people 😊

  • @gandolfthegardener
    @gandolfthegardener Год назад +2

    I grew up on pumpkin pie as a white kid. I wanted to continue the tradition after my mother's passing. I waited too long that season to buy pumpkin pie I'd thought I'd try sweet potato pie. I incorporated another region's specialty into my own holiday celebrations. I haven't gone back to pumpkin pie.

  • @bobbun9630
    @bobbun9630 Год назад +1

    I grow both butternut squash (vine borers are a problem with traditional "pumpkin" varieties) and sweet potatoes in my garden. Guess which I use for pie? I actually mix them, and create a blended pie. No need to fight over it, it's both and neither.

  • @emilyali2519
    @emilyali2519 Год назад +72

    I love me some pumpkin pie.. it’s always been a fav of mine.. yum😊

    • @nashambenyisrael7689
      @nashambenyisrael7689 Год назад +14

      Pumpkin bread gives me some type of feeling in the fall. I love fall :)

    • @leeolie3728
      @leeolie3728 Год назад +3

      Always held both in the same regard. Slightly different but both give me the same feeling

    • @Typical.Anomaly
      @Typical.Anomaly Год назад +2

      @@nashambenyisrael7689 Pumpkin bread French toast is awesome too!

    • @timetogetsaved1302
      @timetogetsaved1302 Год назад +2

      I did not like Pumpkin pie until I tasted Giant supermarket pumpkin pie. Some people make pie and it does not taste anything like what they told you it was.

    • @nashambenyisrael7689
      @nashambenyisrael7689 Год назад +1

      @@Typical.Anomaly never tried but sounds good

  • @bougiequeen8261
    @bougiequeen8261 Год назад +13

    That was very informative about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory story 🤯

  • @angelaefferson8620
    @angelaefferson8620 Год назад +5

    I love pumpkin pie , I will jump over 10 sweet potato pies to get to one pumpkin pie 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🤪🤪🤪

    • @MrDFJohnson
      @MrDFJohnson Год назад +3

      Of course you would. Many other white people would do the same

    • @FUNNYMANERICWHITE
      @FUNNYMANERICWHITE Год назад +1

      @@MrDFJohnson 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @brendaturner5015
    @brendaturner5015 Год назад

    Good morning, I'm going to benge listen to your videos, I've missed a few. Thank you again for sharing the information and how we as blessed black folks fit into it all😊😊❤❤

  • @southbug27
    @southbug27 Год назад +1

    The best is Sweet Potato Casserole with a Pecan Topping. It’s both a side dish & dessert in one. The base is basically a sweet potato custard (smoothly, mashed up sweet potatoes, white sugar, evaporated milk, pumpkin pie spice) that you put in a buttered baking dish & top with pecan topping (is softened butter, flour, brown sugar all rubbed together into a paste & then mix in the chopped pecans). Bake at something like 350 for 45 minutes. The pecan layer should completely cover the surface & not be too thin, & it’s kind of like the melted sugar topping on creme brûlée. It’s the same smooth custard on the bottom & the pecan layer on the top. Somebody is going to have to make it before Thanksgiving this year. 😋

  • @MarvinResper
    @MarvinResper Год назад +6

    Thanks for that awesome information

  • @rhondaherbert9282
    @rhondaherbert9282 Год назад +9

    Love pumpkin pie. Grew up on it. My granddaughter lovs it too.

  • @LittleMissSunshine721
    @LittleMissSunshine721 Год назад +23

    Slowly raising my hand as a Black woman that loves pumpkin pie better than sweet potato pie. 🙋🏾‍♀️😅 It’s a milder, denser pie that’s sweet, but not overtly so. I won’t turn down a slice of sweet potato pie, but pumpkin pie wins my heart. Kev On Stage knows what I’m taking about. 😁🥧😋

    • @handl3869
      @handl3869 Год назад +1

      There is no need to feel awkward. You're free to prefer any cuisine you like...and you don't need me or anyone else to tell you so.😊

  • @Tubes12AX7k
    @Tubes12AX7k Год назад +1

    I love pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie - they're delicious. I had no idea about the history of these pies.

  • @soulbreeda
    @soulbreeda Год назад +1

    I’m a country negro and I love pumpkin pie, sweet potatoe pie etc.

  • @judithkcolbert8483
    @judithkcolbert8483 Год назад +14

    My sister did not like sweet potato pie so she started making pumpkin pie. I did not care for the taste of pumpkin. She blended sweet potato spices with the pumpkin pie and it is good. She taught me to like pumpkin pie. My sister is now deceased so I no longer eat pumpkin pie.😕🥲

    • @andiralosh2173
      @andiralosh2173 Год назад +1

      Oof, I love pumpkin pie and this hurt to read to the end... my grandma always made the best pies 🫶

  • @Powernknowledge
    @Powernknowledge Год назад +24

    But wow I really dig these stories of my peoples❤❤❤❤❤

  • @sapphirelane1714
    @sapphirelane1714 Год назад +27

    Haha! I introduced my white husband to sweet potato pie and casserole. He loves it all now. Doesn’t even remember pumpkin pie!😂

  • @mikecarter5631
    @mikecarter5631 Год назад +1

    I’ve been black my whole life, and I love both pumpkin, and sweet potato pies. My grandmother used to make both on Xmas, and Thanksgivings, and I ate both.

  • @patrickdavenport6254
    @patrickdavenport6254 Год назад +2

    I'm black and had no idea that "we" don't like pumpkin pie. Most black people I know, including me, tear some pumpkin pie up if you put it in front of them. Maybe the dislike is regional. I will accept a plate of both.

  • @hotcaramel3455
    @hotcaramel3455 Год назад +8

    I'll have an occasional piece of pumpkin pie far in between. Potato pie is good all of the time. Yay 🖐️😁🎉!

  • @ElanyeWalker
    @ElanyeWalker Год назад +11

    Sweet Potato Pie is one of my favorite desserts

  • @pookiewood
    @pookiewood Год назад +8

    I love both! 🤣. I loved Pumpkin for so long until I started making sweet potato pie. SP is better but I also still love Pumpkin pie.

  • @riden30
    @riden30 Год назад +1

    Who said black people hate pumpkin pie? I’ve never once heard this as being a thing, sure we love sweet potato pie but that doesn’t mean we automatically hate pumpkin pie??? My family growing up loved both, they’re both great!

  • @grovermartin6874
    @grovermartin6874 Год назад +3

    Pie is a treat made by the talented cook!
    I really enjoyed these slices of history! You opened a lot of windows to view, thank you!
    P.s. That author's name was pronounced ROE-uld Dahl, no "n" in it. I thought it was a typo when I first read it, too. His feelings won't be hurt...

  • @robinanthony7345
    @robinanthony7345 Год назад +44

    I’m black and love pumpkin pie.

  • @victoriaandrews9968
    @victoriaandrews9968 Год назад +34

    I'm a Black woman who actually loves pumpkin pie over sweet potato pie. I found that not a lot of my friends had even had pumpkin pie before, but though I love sweet potatoes, but as a pie, to me pumpkin pie is creamier and tastes better warmed up with some whipped cream and ice cream! It's the bomb!

    • @robinanthony7345
      @robinanthony7345 Год назад +8

      Im with you

    • @Ladybhive71
      @Ladybhive71 Год назад +3

      Me too 👍

    • @andredardy6957
      @andredardy6957 Год назад +4

      I love pumpkin pie during the fall. What a blanket statement. This is why we can't make it in this country. Making a mountain out of a molehill

    • @Ladybhive71
      @Ladybhive71 Год назад +4

      @@andredardy6957 Me too and pumpkin spice cake is delicious

    • @angelicsoulz
      @angelicsoulz Год назад +3

      Warmed up? Blasphemy! Cold with vanilla ice cream.

  • @davidmitchell6873
    @davidmitchell6873 Год назад +8

    I'm a white guy and I love them both.

  • @KM-yw2yb
    @KM-yw2yb Год назад

    Please continue this content. It is valuable. Thank you.

  • @imari2305
    @imari2305 Год назад +4

    Growing up my family never made pumpkin pies but always made sweet potato pies for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. I always thought it was because they never liked the taste of pumpkin pie and for so many years I never ate or made it because I didn't like the taste of it growing up. I had no idea the history behind both pumpkin and sweet potato were connected to slavery. I also had no idea that one of my favorite childhood movies had such an impact that the NAACP got involved regarding representation of our people and that the story was based on a black little boy. Now having a family of my own, I make both pumpkin and sweet potato pies and it's just a matter of choosing which one I'll make during the holidays. Thanks so much for posting.

  • @DerekWill-qp5ge
    @DerekWill-qp5ge Год назад +76

    That is not true! Of course I love sweet potato pie more ! However in NYC we have excellent pumpkin pie! And yes I am African American! Lol 😅

    • @MrDFJohnson
      @MrDFJohnson Год назад +29

      Yes it "is" true. But if you think New York City has as you said, great pumpkin pie , then please enjoy yourself. But, historically yams, and "sweet potatoes", and thus sweet potato pie, comes from Africa, and that's actually our preference. And in the Deep South, as the video said, we will take yams and cook them over fire. It is an African thing and it's a black southern thing. But please enjoy your pumpkin pie. Ain't nobody mad at you. But if you coming to a black holes hold in the Deep South talking about you want pumpkin pie, be prepared to be looked at like something wrong with you 😅

    • @janetwilliams1767
      @janetwilliams1767 Год назад +2

      ​@MrDFJohnson that part 😂😂

    • @lanardfletcher1422
      @lanardfletcher1422 Год назад +23

      You're from New York bro. In the south, where all the black people and black culture is, we don't mess with no pumpkin pie. If you're not from the south, you just gotta sit this one out my good brother. Lol

    • @DerekWill-qp5ge
      @DerekWill-qp5ge Год назад

      @@lanardfletcher1422 And just what is black culture? Single parenting.violence and gangs! Lowest in education! Ignorance is bliss! Rampant homelessness witchcraft and idolatry! Epidemic mental illness! Awful drug addiction! etc.. you can keep it! SMH

    • @Ladybhive71
      @Ladybhive71 Год назад +3

      @@lanardfletcher1422 Tell it 😁

  • @marshamunger6004
    @marshamunger6004 Год назад +5

    Gotta have both, won't refuse either ❤.

  • @ivyteacherwilson
    @ivyteacherwilson Год назад +173

    I love me some Black history!💯⚜️👍🏾

    • @stephencarter2664
      @stephencarter2664 Год назад +6

      You're being played.

    • @Bouldah
      @Bouldah Год назад

      This guy acts like he's speaking for all black folk like there ain't a single black man that enjoys pumpkin pie 🤣 absolute propaganda merchant

    • @davidwest7978
      @davidwest7978 Год назад +3

      ​@@stephencarter2664 how?

    • @tammygamble8313
      @tammygamble8313 Год назад +3

      @@davidwest7978 Exactly

    • @stephencarter2664
      @stephencarter2664 Год назад +1

      @@davidwest7978 For those who understand, no explanation is needed; for those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial Год назад +2

    It's crazy how things like fruits and vegetables can become so divisive; like for a country which would one day have an obesity epidemic, the irony there'd be conflict the ingredients of random baked goods shouldn't be lost on anyone. Also Roald Dahl's name is pronounced "Rolled" not "Ronald"

  • @crystaljanai2229
    @crystaljanai2229 11 месяцев назад

    That's crazy the truth behind things we don't know. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

  • @TylerDawnRosenquist
    @TylerDawnRosenquist Год назад +2

    Fascinating! I only had sweet potato pie once and it must have just been a bad one but I will definitely need to make one myself and try to do it right! I will never look at Charlie the same way again.

  • @rosiepowell7344
    @rosiepowell7344 Год назад +64

    Do you know the history behind Thanksgiving ? Well, you should find out ! Find out what's behind all of these holidays !😊

    • @canufi6my
      @canufi6my Год назад +1

      Jewish merchants? They had to do something with the 50 million turkeys left over from WWI.

    • @holycow1697
      @holycow1697 Год назад +1

      Yes

    • @robertjones8771
      @robertjones8771 Год назад +2

      🙏🏾😎💪🏾✌🏽😊

    • @aarondigby5054
      @aarondigby5054 Год назад +5

      Where the hell you get that from? Thxgvn was legitimate holiday slightly after the civil war it became an observed national holiday shortly after to try and reconcile the divide in the nation.

    • @canufi6my
      @canufi6my Год назад +3

      @@aarondigby5054 Yep, and at that time goose was prefered 10 to one over turkey. Turkey didn't become popular until after WWI. And that was thanks to a big push to get rid of thousands of leftover turkeys.

  • @ChristianJoyD
    @ChristianJoyD Год назад +11

    I eat both but only one publicy 👀

  • @JTheTeach
    @JTheTeach Год назад +2

    I grew up with pumpkin pie, and had quite a few Thanksgivings with my friend's family (they are black) and had the sweet potato pie. I like em both, and since then they both get a seat on Thanksgiving.
    A few other differenes I noted when I was eating Thanksgiving over with them as opposed to my house, they had "dressing" instead of stuffing. Ham was not uncommonly included with a turkey as well or instead of turkey in some cases. Are these dishes a common thing in a lot of Black households or was my experience more rare?

  • @icecreamhero2375
    @icecreamhero2375 Год назад +1

    I'm black and Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite foods.

  • @H.D.B.3
    @H.D.B.3 Год назад +5

    My Maternal side is Black* via the Northeast* originally; and I've always eaten "Pumpkin Pie*." My Paternal side is also Black; via Southeast*. My Paternal relatives have always prepared "Sweet Potato Pie." I had a neighbor during childhood whom was from the Southeast; and her "Sweet Potato Pie" was scrumptious*!" However; I have a preference for "Pumpkin Pie*" which was prepared upon my Maternal* side for years since the late 19th. Century (1800s).
    Sister H.D.B.3

  • @Mikki220
    @Mikki220 Год назад +19

    My college cafeteria labeled something sweet potato pie and I got it. I told people it was spoiled or something "if you got it, throw it away!" My boyfriend tasted mine and told me it was pumpkin pie. I had never had pumpkin pie before. I thought I was saving lives.😂

  • @dalehoward3704
    @dalehoward3704 Год назад +7

    I love both sweet potato and pumpkin pie. Delicious! How about bean pie--YUM😋

  • @cackleberrywilson5956
    @cackleberrywilson5956 Год назад +1

    An older lady from Tennessee that I worked with gave me her recipe for sweet potato pie. She used a pumpkin pie recipe but omitted the spices and put in a teaspoon of black walnut extract. She made a crumb topping with chopped walnuts in it. She said that when she was growing up they seldom had the luxury of spices. This pie is Fantastic, worth trying ❣️

  • @planeandsimple431
    @planeandsimple431 Год назад +1

    My mother used to boil sweet potatoes in pineapple juice, mash them with butter, brown sugar, a little cinnamon and nutmeg, then bake in a casserole dish, and brown some marshmallows on top at the end. There was never left overs of that.

  • @thorium9503
    @thorium9503 Год назад +79

    My grandfather cooks about 150 sweet potato pies for church on Thanksgiving, he’ll keep about 20 of them and we go through those pies like water. Let me tell you something, it’s some good ass pie. I remember I tried pumpkin pie once and I was like what the hell is this 😂

    • @TheBlvdjewel
      @TheBlvdjewel Год назад +8

      I know that's right. During the holidays, I can eat sweet potato pie for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner.

    • @clarity-re3mn
      @clarity-re3mn Год назад +4

      As a child, I only knew what I liked and didn't like. And I definitely didn't like pumpkin pie. Ugh

    • @cnwil4594
      @cnwil4594 Год назад +4

      LMAO - I was the same way, got pumpkin pie PTSD - LMAO

    • @wareforcoin5780
      @wareforcoin5780 Год назад +3

      A good pumpkin pie is heavenly. You need to find someone to home make it, it'll change your outlook on life.

    • @tamaraallen2013
      @tamaraallen2013 Год назад

      😂😂😂😂😇🌷

  • @Bane35755
    @Bane35755 Год назад +4

    Pumpkin isn't a potato. I don't understand how you can compare them together. You can use sweet potatoes to make pies 🥧. Yam can be use for candied Yam. But it doesn't matter, you can switch or mix them together. They will taste the same. The same with white potato, when making French Fries, potato chips or Mash potato. You want know the difference. Food manufacturers does this a lot.

    • @denisebycapricorn
      @denisebycapricorn Год назад +1

      We don't actually eat yams. We are eating candied sweet potatoes. There is very little difference between a yam and sweet potatoe except continent origin

    • @angelaefferson8620
      @angelaefferson8620 Год назад +2

      @@denisebycapricorn your right , been gardening for years, and there is no difference between yams and sweet potatoes, they come from the same family, certain part of the world calls them yams and other parts calls them sweet potatoes

  • @amour4627
    @amour4627 Год назад +4

    I love both pumpkin and sweet potato pie and make breads from both

  • @joanhuffman2166
    @joanhuffman2166 Год назад +1

    Because most African Americans are culturally Southern. Sweet potato pie is Southern and pumpkin pie is Northern. While there are some African Americans who are Northern back to the colonial era, most are Southern even when they live up North.

  • @Peppurr1
    @Peppurr1 Год назад +1

    It’s funny because several in my family love pumpkin more than sweet potato. Feel like since we already have candy yams why do we need sweet potato pie too.

  • @sandevieira5674
    @sandevieira5674 Год назад +18

    This is fascinating. I never really thought about the lack of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. My mother's baked sweet potatoes might as well have been a dessert but we always had pecan pie for the holidays, or blackberry cobbler.

    • @garymayfield5995
      @garymayfield5995 Год назад +1

      It's not better than pumpkin pie It's systematic that's all

    • @marietaylor5174
      @marietaylor5174 Год назад +2

      The blackberry cobbler was so so good; oh I wish I had a serving of it right now.

  • @lifeofjoy4950
    @lifeofjoy4950 Год назад +20

    I've had bad sweet potato pie and bad pumpkin pie. I love both pies when made well. And in most cases, I can't tell the difference between the two. You put it in front of me and I'll eat it. 😋

    • @MrDFJohnson
      @MrDFJohnson Год назад +13

      If you can't tell the difference between sweet potato pie and pumpkin pie, then I suggest you have your palate checked by a board certified palate-tologist 😂

    • @waynebaker5720
      @waynebaker5720 Год назад +4

      ​@@MrDFJohnson lol

    • @lifeofjoy4950
      @lifeofjoy4950 Год назад +1

      He said he couldn't tell the difference either. 😁

    • @Ladybhive71
      @Ladybhive71 Год назад +2

      Life of joy@, 💯

    • @kelvincook4246
      @kelvincook4246 Год назад +2

      I've had good and bad pumpkin pie, but the worst sweet potato pie I ever had was still pretty dang good.😊

  • @Lornicopia
    @Lornicopia Год назад +6

    I love them both! What is fascinating about pygmy culture is that they know how to make nets and snares from plants that are around them. They know what is poisonous. What is medicinal,what is edible. They are masters of their environment! They literally can create and survive in their environment perfectly. They are masters. Ultimate survivalist and I am in awe and greatly appreciate them. If I were to choose a population to colonize a habitable planet,somewhere out there,Pygmy and Romonian pastoralist would be the first on the list. They could survive and adapt anywhere and would be the ultimate asset.

    • @traceymills4393
      @traceymills4393 Год назад +1

      Seems like you are marveling at the cultures of people who have been unfortunately labeled because of a physical attribute. Pygmy means small, and is used in biology-- like with animals. When used for people it's pejorative Random groups of people around the globe are called this belittling term because they are short and dark skinned. How about using the names people actually call themselves? Baka, Mbuti, Twa, Batwa, Bongo, etc. Just a thought.
      Oh, and "choose a population to colonize a habitable planet"... WTF???

    • @Lornicopia
      @Lornicopia Год назад

      @@traceymills4393 I love these names they call themselves! I did not know them. I will have to learn more and look them up. I didn't really think about pygmy being pejoritive,but I get that point. It's like calling Natives in the America's Indians.

    • @traceymills4393
      @traceymills4393 Год назад

      @@Lornicopia 😉

  • @PinkLipstick1996
    @PinkLipstick1996 Год назад +1

    I absolutely love Pumpkin Pie, matter of fact I love all things Pumpkin in the fall. I tried Sweet Potato Pie once and didn’t care for it but to each his own 🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @laysworld9029
    @laysworld9029 Год назад +2

    My mother liked pumkin pies,so I learned to cook them for her. My family originally preferred sweet potato pies. Over the years they have gotten used to eating my pumkin pies, and request their own personal pies. I have one sister who will still make a couple of sweet potato pies. But them pumkin pies is what's happening! Me Ive always liked both. 😊😊😊

  • @moa8121
    @moa8121 Год назад +4

    I like both pies; and I’m a 66 year old black man.

    • @MrDFJohnson
      @MrDFJohnson Год назад +1

      I doubt that you are.

    • @moa8121
      @moa8121 Год назад +3

      @@MrDFJohnson why are you doubting that I’m not a 66 year old black man; I was born on 04/18/1957 in Boston,Massachusetts.

  • @johnsomn2148
    @johnsomn2148 Год назад +9

    I've tried to use the same seasonings used in sweet potato with a pumpkin, didn't work. Found there a different types of pumpkin s maybe I'll try again😊

    • @angelaefferson8620
      @angelaefferson8620 Год назад

      Try again

    • @waynebaker5720
      @waynebaker5720 Год назад +1

      Two different kinds of vegetables or fruit
      They'll take different seasonings for desired results

    • @holycow1697
      @holycow1697 Год назад +2

      Nutmeg is a great seasoning for pumpkin pie.

    • @denisebycapricorn
      @denisebycapricorn Год назад +2

      @Holy Cow Uh we alrdy use nutmeg in Sweet potatoe pie

    • @ADR-xn6dg
      @ADR-xn6dg Год назад

      I think when they add more cinnamon that it tastes better, however some can be heavy handed with it. I think pumpkin is bougie when it comes to seasonings 😅

  • @garysmith394
    @garysmith394 Год назад +4

    I get so tired of people making generalizations about entire groups of people. I eat pumpkin pie and prefer it to sweet potato pie and I am Afro-American. I cannot figure out why sweet potatoes are put in a pie crust when they can be eaten like they are (cooked of course). It is different when it comes to pumpkins, which need to be spiced, flavored and sweetened before being eaten. It makes sense to bake them in a pie. All black people do not hate pumpkin pie and love sweet potato pie. And by the way, the author you referred to, is named ROALD Dahl, not Ronald Dahl.

    • @goodmeasure777
      @goodmeasure777 Год назад +2

      @Gary Smith, Beautifully said. Perhaps just an over harvest for gardeners... A lot of folk just believe what others say and maintain the narrative, or like, ooh you gon get your, Soul card taken away. Lawd.

    • @garysmith394
      @garysmith394 Год назад

      @@goodmeasure777 Thanks, Good Measure!

  • @jamiroberts9744
    @jamiroberts9744 Год назад

    Dude, you shook so much of my world in a six and a half minute long video about black history! I am so glad you ended up in my suggestions! You are so concise and insightful with your history! A pleasure of a first video! I had no idea about any of this! Thank you for making videos like this! I'm such a history junkie and this is such little talked about Americana.

  • @marcuscicero9587
    @marcuscicero9587 Год назад +1

    I think most folks couldn't tell the difference. I make both and the recipe is the same. they're a custard made of eggs and cream and the same spices. even the color can be the same depending on the amount of dark brown sugar added

  • @patriniacopeland6891
    @patriniacopeland6891 Год назад +15

    I have heard that a lot of people who do not like pumpkin pie ( color irrelevant) just hate the taste.

    • @DavidWilliams-so2dy
      @DavidWilliams-so2dy Год назад +5

      It has an unpleasant aftertaste in my opinion. But I love sweet potato pie. They’re simple to make as well.

    • @TheTruth27536
      @TheTruth27536 Год назад +4

      Pumpkin pie tends to have this 'earthy' flavor that is off-putting. Sweet potatoes doesn't have this earthiness. BTW, I am a southern black man.

    • @laryanryan9170
      @laryanryan9170 Год назад +1

      Pumpkin pie is just like grits because people who say they don't like them haven't eaten them when they were seasoned and cooked right. I'm a southern black oldhead who can cook anything.

    • @TheTruth27536
      @TheTruth27536 Год назад +1

      @@laryanryan9170 Interestingly enough, I am extremely peculiar with grits. What I noticed is different brands of grits have different taste profiles. Also, I am very peculiar about the water I use for my grits. I've had people who hated grits eat mine.
      As for pumpkin pie, you are likely right. I've heard that homemade pumpkin pies made with "sugar pumpkins" taste good, but I haven't had a chance to taste one.

    • @laryanryan9170
      @laryanryan9170 Год назад +2

      @@TheTruth27536 Grits should be cooked in milk or chicken broth and all seasoning mixed in before adding the grits.

  • @dlmg5707
    @dlmg5707 Год назад +42

    When I was young and had moved out on my own I MISTAKENLY bought a pumpkin pie. I thought it was my lucky day as I was far from my grandma's house. I cut into that thang and literally cried.😭

    • @Kingsessing
      @Kingsessing Год назад

      They didn’t print the name on the pie box?

    • @ADR-xn6dg
      @ADR-xn6dg Год назад +6

      @@Kingsessing depending on how her family makes it they can resemble pumpkin pies. She probably just looked at the pie and said it’s gotta be sweet potato

    • @kimerietate8372
      @kimerietate8372 Год назад +16

      I’m old(52), and back in the 70s, Walgreen’s used to be in some malls, and they had restaurants that were kind of like diners.After I had my grilled cheese sandwich or whatever, I was served a piece of what I assumed was sweet potato pie, which my grandmother often made.I bit into it, and it was DISGUSTING.I put my fork down, and pushed the plate away.My mother laughed, and told me it was pumpkin pie.That was 46 years ago, and I’m still traumatized by the thought of that nasty pumpkin pie.

    • @IgrisBloodRed91
      @IgrisBloodRed91 Год назад +2

      @@Kingsessing they probably never had it, and assumed it would taste just as good.

    • @holycow1697
      @holycow1697 Год назад +5

      @@kimerietate8372 old? Chile, you're still a baby. 🤣🤣🤣 We had Woolworths. It was a nice place to go to.

  • @laurice8056
    @laurice8056 Год назад +6

    Great historical content on Sweet Potato Pie AND the Willy Wonka story! It’s quite a coincidence that the Oompa Loompa characters in the original movie have orange faces,… like sliced sweet potatoes!😆 I will never see this movie the same way again.🥧
    Thanks for sharing!

  • @klove6149
    @klove6149 Год назад +2

    This was FASCINATING!! And the Willy wonka story TOO!! OMG...thank you for the information!! Videos like this are much needed to help us understand history and to know what we are REALLY exposing ourselves to and the TRUE meaning behind all these things. Thank you 🙏🌻

  • @mariojohnson4695
    @mariojohnson4695 Год назад +1

    I actually prefer pumpkin pie, but I love sweet potatoes a lot, I prefer them as candied yams and eating them within my meal..I also like baked sweet potato that are offered at restaurants. I love a baked sweet potato with butter and cinnamon.