Any Way You Slice It: For Pecan Pie, It’s All about the South’s Iconic Nuts

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Is it pea-kan or pick-ahn?

To be honest, the age-old debate on pronunciation can easily be used to divide a map of the United States into different regions. In New England and the Eastern Seaboard, people say pea-kan, while in the Mid-South, most folks say pick-ahn.

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