When it comes to Thanksgiving, some things stay the same — turkey, football, and that one relative who brings way too many Tupperware containers. But this year, there’s one dessert shaking up the table… PIE.
A new poll asked over 7,000 Americans about their go-to Thanksgiving pie, and here’s how the classics stacked up:
🎃 Pumpkin Pie — 30%🍎 Apple Pie — 20%🥜 Pecan Pie — 15%🍠 Sweet Potato — 9%
BUT — here’s the twist… the love for pumpkin and pecan is coming mostly from Boomers and Gen X.
Meanwhile, younger generations are switching it up and choosing apple and — wait for it — CHOCOLATE PIE. 🍫🥧
Yup… chocolate pie is surging SO fast that it could actually replace pumpkin pie within a generation or two. Grandma is not gonna like that one.
And then there’s Gen Z… the plot twist we didn’t need: 10% of Gen Z says they don’t even like pie on Thanksgiving 😳(Compared to just 4% of Boomers. Someone check on Grandma again.)
🌎 State-by-State Pie Madness
Google Trends dropped a map of every state’s most uniquely popular Thanksgiving pie, and some of these choices are… wild:
🟧 Pumpkin Pie: California, New York, North Dakota, New Mexico, New Jersey
🍎 Apple Pie: Most of the Northeast + Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Alaska
🥧 Custard / Cream Pies: Key lime, cream, banana cream — huge out West (and obviously Florida 🍋💛)
🍮 Butterscotch Pie: Ohio
🥛 Buttermilk Pie: Tennessee & North Carolina
🥜 Peanut Butter Pie: Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas
🍒 Cherry Pie: Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, Illinois
🫐 Blackberry Pie: Washington
🍇 Grape Pie: Arizona (didn’t see that one coming)
🍠 Sweet Potato Pie: Deep South
🌰 Pecan Pie: Texas
🍯 Shoofly Pie: Pennsylvania
🌽 Tamale Pie: Oregon??
🔥 Frito Chili Pie: Kansas — the rebel of the Midwest
And yes… people are now making pie-inspired drinks. So if you want to sip your dessert, the future is now.