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Are you team homemade or team store-bought? In this video, this holiday season, Josh is taste-testing the internet’s favorite Patti LaBelle’s sweet potato pie versus a homemade sweet potato pie recipe submitted in 1966 by Ms. Stringer. While you can’t go wrong with Patti’s pie, if you’ve got time to spare, then homemade pie is the way to go for the holidays.
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00:00So when it comes to holiday dessert duty, are you team store-bought or are you team homemade?
00:04The internet went crazy for Patti LaBelle's sweet potato pie. I'm going to see how it compares to
00:07our homemade sweet potato pie. It was submitted in 1966 by Mrs. O.C. Stringer from Laurel,
00:12Mississippi. I'm going to taste patties first. Okay, not bad, Patti. The crust is actually pretty
00:17good. I expected it to be kind of bland, but it has more of like a shortbread-y kind of
00:21texture.
00:21The pie itself, it's nice and sweet. I don't so much taste spice, but that's a nice pie. So I'm
00:26going to taste her and see how she compares. Hands down, homemade is better. So this matches
00:30the sweetness of patties, but the depth of spices is really so much better. This one has nutmeg,
00:35cinnamon, and cloves. That tastes like fall. That tastes like Thanksgiving. If you're in a rush,
00:39pick up some patty, but if you've got the time, make it from scratch.

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