The UNTOLD Story of Black Folks Love for Sweet Potato Pie

Why Don't Black Folks eat Pumpkin Pie? How did we start eating Sweet Potato Pie? Join us while we detail the answer to this puzzling questions.
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[@sill1chi]

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]

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]

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

[@scottowensbyable]

​@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]

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

[@kevinwhite3237]

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

[@janicefrost4190]

Because sweet potato pie taste much better.

[@J-Hue]

Better taste and better texture.

[@lamelwinston7101]

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

[@tay4093]

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

[@cuturu8724]

Case closed lmaooo

[@FredJ2091]

Ahahaaa!!!

[@mstaytaye115]

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]

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

[@p.gizzle90]

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]

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

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

A smart lady

[@jayov4044]

❤

[@patrickdavenport6254]

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]

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

[@thatgirlinokc3975]

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

[@patrickdavenport6254]

@@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]

Are you saying Blackness is not a monolith?

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

@@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.

[@WJW41528]

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

[@laryanryan9170]

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

[@alphaomega1351]

Sweet! 😶

[@Typical.Anomaly]

Mashed with brown sugar and butter

[@WJW41528]

@@Travelbug92 OH I must try, thank you!

[@sassyluv1242]

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

[@thegiftedseer6764]

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

[@theninjacat7200]

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

[@lavender6500]

Pumpkin candles. The whole nine yards!

[@noahbarnhartandit2365]

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

[@mrmacho41]

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

[@pamelamays4186]

My Mamma made lots of pumpkin pies.

[@ruhafla8326]

I'm white and my lady is African American and she LOVES Pumpkin Pie with whip cream. Just goes to show you that not everyone falls into these old fashioned stereotypes! She loves Sweet Potato Pie too!

[@ashleyadkins6091]

I like pumpkin pie cheesecake 😂

[@Brambrew]

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]

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

[@Brambrew]

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

[@rebeccahicks2392]

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]

Pumpkins ARE squashes: *Cucurbita pepo.*

[@Brambrew]

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

[@angelagoodwin5758]

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

[@SitchCorp]

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

[@oceanlover2426]

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]

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]

Same here.

[@Rastaferrari829]

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

[@robinanthony7345]

I’m black and love pumpkin pie.

[@flossyraven]

Me too😊

[@Sweetrottenapple]

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. ❤

[@clarissathompson]

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]

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

[@rollingrocker666]

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]

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]

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]

​@@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]

Love Pepsi and hate coke.😀

[@serenityq26]

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

[@carolmerlini9971]

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]

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]

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

[@DerekWill-qp5ge]

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

[@dnitagill7]

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!:) 💜

[@sirpaidalot19]

w h o l e s o m e

[@bobcarn]

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]

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.

[@johnschindler8433]

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]

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

[@KlingonPrincess]

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

[@alienvomitsex]

The best city!

[@drennyvision6141]

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

[@kimberlyrobinson3992]

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

[@dwaynejordan6750]

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

[@garymayfield5995]

I'm Black and I agree 100%

[@SclountDraxxer]

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]

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

[@killmongermyhero1169]

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]

Thank You 🙏🏿

[@lovingdensi2467]

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

[@dreajam870]

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👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

[@gandolfthegardener]

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.

[@Intentionaltia]

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

[@nagone11]

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

[@denisebycapricorn]

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]

@@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]

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

[@TommyStrategic]

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

[@gwendolynhawkins4452]

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]

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]

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

[@Isinforblood]

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

[@shaundramanning769]

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

[@henriettaparks4266]

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

[@chocolatestraw3971]

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]

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

[@adambaum5824]

They taste the same to me, as well.

[@daddiesgurl1968]

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

[@b.w.vanalstyne7197]

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]

Dang, that sounds good!

[@theinvisiblewoman5709]

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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@greenbyrd3665]

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]

Same for me 🥧🙂

[@firepuppies4086]

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

[@josephine4s]

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.

[@zuriberry]

I eat both!

[@judilynn9569]

I’m Black and from the north. My family ate both Sweet Potato and Pumpkin pie. Loved both.

[@And3aPet]

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]

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

[@Illstatefishing]

I love me some sweet potato pie!! 🥧 😋

[@washingtonmarcus830]

I never been to a Thanksgiving that never some type of pumpkin style desser

[@mitzithompson6585]

Chile me 2!!!! I 💓 sweet potatoes period

[@deloreswillis9224]

OmGOD ME 3❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tyota3334]

That lemon pie tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stephanieguthrie832]

Me too

[@angelaefferson8620]

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

[@MrDFJohnson]

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

[@FUNNYMANERICWHITE]

@@MrDFJohnson 😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@728huey]

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]

Pumpkin is a fruit, sweet potatoes are vegetables.

[@Munchkin.Of.Pern09]

@@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]

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

[@nahometesfay1112]

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

[@TheOtherSideoftheLookingGlass]

*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!* 🤤😋🥧

[@davidmitchell6873]

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

[@sherylhagen6565]

As a white lady, originally from N.D., I'd never really liked pumpkin pie. I'd never heard of sweet potato pie. I was introduced to THAT while working at a facility mostly staffed by black folks. SO freaking good!! So now I take them to every Thanksgiving/Friendsgiving feast. Thank you so much for the history lesson, this was great.

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

A thing called taste buds on you're tongue, you're skin color has fuck all in what you want to eat, lol.

[@yoloyolo3940]

I love both! I'm African American and love everything pumpkin ❤

[@LittleMissSunshine721]

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]

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.😊

[@davidb3852]

Now I want some sweet potato pie hella bad

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

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

[@garymayfield5995]

You can keep it

[@rheddhawkmariea5875]

You are probably a foreigner. Lol.

[@earleneworrell]

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

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

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

[@LexDiamond270]

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

[@truthseeker9679]

🤣😂🤣Amen!!!

[@deloreswillis9224]

Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I feel you now

[@deloreswillis9224]

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

[@Ladybhive71]

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

[@TheAverageServant]

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

[@renegadewolfhound8786]

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

[@mikecarter5631]

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.

[@judithkcolbert8483]

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]

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

[@ivyteacherwilson]

I love me some Black history!💯⚜️👍🏾

[@stephencarter2664]

You're being played.

[@Bouldah]

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]

​@@stephencarter2664 how?

[@tammygamble8313]

@@davidwest7978 Exactly

[@stephencarter2664]

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

[@OpEditorial]

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"

[@laysworld9029]

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. 😊😊😊

[@marcilk7534]

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.

[@LAZ773]

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.

[@johncremeans969]

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

[@kevinmyles1158]

My dad is black and he loves pumpkin pie. I find it strange hearing about this for the first time.

[@Powernknowledge]

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

[@johnsummonsrevsummons7212]

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 😊

[@brendaturner5015]

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😊😊❤❤

[@maeylamoy8148]

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

[@bougiequeen8261]

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

[@ChristianJoyD]

I eat both but only one publicy 👀

[@Intentionaltia]

😂

[@southbug27]

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. 😋

[@drkwvrvn9956]

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

[@moa8121]

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

[@MrDFJohnson]

I doubt that you are.

[@moa8121]

@@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.

[@beautifulblackbutterfly1765]

I don't care to eat pumpkin pie because I don't care for all that doggone freaking spice. 😬

[@truthseeker9679]

It depends on the cook. You do not have to over power the filling with too much spice. I find that you can put too much spice in sweet potato pie as well.

[@MrDFJohnson]

They have to put all of that freaking spice in pumpkin pie to make it taste like anything.

[@beautifulblackbutterfly1765]

@@MrDFJohnson Amen 👏🏽💯🙌🏾

[@Mikki220]

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.😂

[@clovers10]

You were saving lives and taste buds.

[@GsButterfly78]

😂😂😂

[@mothertwinkles4198]

😂

[@jamiroberts9744]

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.

[@ElanyeWalker]

Sweet Potato Pie is one of my favorite desserts

[@victoriaandrews9968]

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]

Im with you

[@Ladybhive71]

Me too 👍

[@andredardy6957]

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]

@@andredardy6957 Me too and pumpkin spice cake is delicious

[@angelicsoulz]

Warmed up? Blasphemy! Cold with vanilla ice cream.

[@imari2305]

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.

[@patrickdavenport6254]

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.

[@holycow1697]

I love me some pumpkin pie.

[@lalo80adams71]

Me too lol

[@emilyali2519]

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

[@flossyraven]

I love pumpkin and sweet potato pie.

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

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

[@leeolie3728]

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

[@Typical.Anomaly]

@@nashambenyisrael7689 Pumpkin bread French toast is awesome too!

[@timetogetsaved1302]

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.

[@Lornicopia]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@Lornicopia 😉

[@klove6149]

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 🙏🌻

[@marshamunger6004]

Gotta have both, won't refuse either ❤.

[@hotcaramel3455]

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

[@grovermartin6874]

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...

[@chloeg2891]

I love both but Sweet Potato pie is my all time favorite that’s why during the holidays I make 10 Sweet Potato pies and one Pumpkin pie. I only can enjoy both when they’re cold.

[@thorium9503]

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]

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

[@clarity-re3mn]

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

[@cnwil4594]

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

[@wareforcoin5780]

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

[@tamaraallen2013]

😂😂😂😂😇🌷

[@pookiewood]

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.

[@cackleberrywilson5956]

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 ❣️

[@Tubes12AX7k]

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

[@rosiepowell7344]

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

[@canufi6my]

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

[@holycow1697]

Yes

[@robertjones8771]

🙏🏾😎💪🏾✌🏽😊

[@aarondigby5054]

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]

@@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.

[@VitaInDC]

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

[@planeandsimple431]

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.

[@CarolineBoyce1]

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

[@sapphirelane1714]

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

[@MarvinResper]

Thanks for that awesome information

[@webbbyte]

I love both, especially with it mixed together.

[@riden30]

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!

[@dlmg5707]

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.😭

[@workedfortheciawhenisoldrock]

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

[@ADR-xn6dg]

@@workedfortheciawhenisoldrock 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]

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.

[@IBR0691]

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

[@holycow1697]

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

[@KM-yw2yb]

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

[@1969deena]

AWESOME!!!!!☺History of Us! Keep up the Great work Sir!😉

[@Bane35755]

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]

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]

@@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

[@DerekWill-qp5ge]

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]

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]

​@MrDFJohnson that part 😂😂

[@lanardfletcher1422]

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]

@@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]

@@lanardfletcher1422 Tell it 😁

[@bobbun9630]

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.

[@crystaljanai2229]

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

[@ericstrickland9866]

Love Sweet Potatoe Pie. I never like the taste of pumpkin pie.

[@valerieneal2747]

ME EITHER. IT'S GROSS

[@ceciliajasper454]

I LOVE pumpkin pie..and yes, I'm a brown girl..no sweet potato pie over here.

[@eaglessixersfankeepingitre3247]

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.

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

This is an excellent video!! I wish I'd known about your channel before now.

[@H.D.B.3]

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

[@deeallen1526]

I am black and like both pies but prefer sweet potato🥧🥧

[@soulbreeda]

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

[@TylerDawnRosenquist]

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.

[@lifeofjoy4950]

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]

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]

​@@MrDFJohnson lol

[@lifeofjoy4950]

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

[@Ladybhive71]

Life of joy@, 💯

[@kelvincook4246]

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