Sweet potato pie
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Sweet potato pie is a traditional dessert popular in the Southern United States.
It is a usually made as a large tart in an open pie shell without a top crust. The filling consists of sweet potatoes, milk, sugar and eggs, flavored with spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg..
[edit] References in popular culture
- Country band Alabama's 1989 #1 hit "Song of The South" prominently features the line "Song, song of the South, sweet potato pie and shut my mouth"
- Eugenia Collier wrote a short story titled "Sweet Potato Pie."
- On the popular NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the character Will Smith frequently shows a love of sweet potato pie.
- Fox Mulder eats several slices in succession during the X-Files episode Jose Chung's "From Outer Space".
- Robert Cray released an album entitled "Sweet Potato Pie" in 1997.
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