Sweet Potato Pie
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A slice of sweet potato pie.

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.

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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