Thanksgiving menus usually don't change much. But there MIGHT be a shift happening . . . regarding PIE.
A new poll asked more than 7,000 Americans about their favorite pies to eat on Thanksgiving. And the usual suspects rose to the top: 30% said pumpkin pie, 20% said apple, 15% said pecan, and 9% said sweet potato.
But pumpkin and pecan were heavily boosted by OLDER generations . . . Boomers and Gen X.
Younger people were more likely to pick apple and CHOCOLATE pies. It's so significant that chocolate could replace pumpkin within a generation or two.
That is, if pies themselves don't go out of style. 10% of Gen Z'ers say they don't like to eat pie on Thanksgiving . . . compared to just 4% of Boomers.
Speaking of pumpkin pie, Google Trends put out a list of the stand-out Thanksgiving pies by state. (The pies searched there more than average.)
Pumpkin is #1 in California, New York, North Dakota, New Mexico, and New Jersey. Apple pie is #1 throughout the rest of the northeastern states, along with Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, and Alaska.
Custard style pies are surprisingly popular for Thanksgiving in a lot of states. Most of the western states like key lime pie, cream pie, or banana cream pie. Florida also likes key lime.
Ohio likes butterscotch . . . Tennessee and North Carolina like buttermilk . . . Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arkansas like peanut butter pie.
For fruit pies, several states prefer cherry, including Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Illinois . . . Washington goes for blackberry . . . Arizona likes grape.
Sweet potato pie is loved in the Deep South . . . Texas likes pecan . . . Pennsylvania likes shoofly pie . . . Oregon wants "tamale pie" . . . and Kansas is the only state to go for "Frito chili pie."
(Here's the full map. And some people are making pie-inspired DRINKS.)