ISSUE 35, PIES, Part 4: Sweet Potato

Pie Wars--Sweet Potato versus Pumpkin

Pie Wars-Sweet Potato versus Pumpkin

There was a moment early in the twentieth century—1904 or so—when canned pumpkin pie filling from the North and its distribution through southern groceries set off the woe reflex in southerners. Writers to the papers began moaning about the disappearance of southern civilization.  The native sweet potato pie was being…