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Posted By: Ella Free food! - 12/11/15
Peecans. Pehkhans. However you pronounce them.

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Three trees in the backyard have compelled me to spend some time this fall fondling my nuts. smirk

I hear they go in cycles. This is our first year here, but it seems like a bumper crop.

Ella
Posted By: 284LUVR Re: Free food! - 12/11/15
mmmmmmmmmm,.... peekin' pie !!!!

Lancaster Co, Pa. favorite.
Posted By: byc Re: Free food! - 12/11/15
Outstanding....and yes it's peeee-can!!

We have tons as well up in Asheville.
Posted By: calikooknic Re: Free food! - 12/11/15
DGAF what you call your pie, but make it out of those!

Posted By: Ella Re: Free food! - 12/12/15
We did this one for Tgiving. Recipe out of America's Test Kitchen book, I think. It didn't survive the night...

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Posted By: BigDave39355 Re: Free food! - 12/12/15
Pa cahn


Pee can is what grandma kept under the bed
Posted By: Henryseale Re: Free food! - 12/12/15
I use a pee-can in my tent when camping. I have a puh-cahn tree in my back yard.
Posted By: Ella Re: Free food! - 12/13/15
Any good tricks to cracking these?
The channel locks n football method works but is slow....

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I don't know how I pronounce them myself anymore.
Posted By: Deerwhacker444 Re: Free food! - 12/14/15
This is a Pee-can.

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This is a Puh-khan.

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Be careful what you ask for.
Posted By: byc Re: Free food! - 12/14/15
NO NO NO!!!!! Ain't no Webster puhkun spelling for pecan!

Pronounce "PE" and now "CAN"....that = PE+CAN!

Pee--Can!!

Go change your pink diapers DW!! laugh
Posted By: chris_c Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
Originally Posted by Ella
Any good tricks to cracking these?
The channel locks n football method works but is slow....

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I don't know how I pronounce them myself anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3M8M3xfN6s&feature=player_embedded
only a few hundred dollars grin
Posted By: Raeford Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
Originally Posted by byc
NO NO NO!!!!! Ain't no Webster puhkun spelling for pecan!

Pronounce "PE" and now "CAN"....that = PE+CAN!

Pee--Can!!

Go change your pink diapers DW!! laugh


This^^ Perzactly!
Posted By: sse Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
pa-CAN
Posted By: Raeford Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
Originally Posted by sse
paee-CAN
Posted By: Deerwhacker444 Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
Originally Posted by byc
NO NO NO!!!!! Ain't no Webster puhkun spelling for pecan!

Pronounce "PE" and now "CAN"....that = PE+CAN!

Pee--Can!!

Go change your pink diapers DW!! laugh


You fly United and strike out often.?


Posted By: byc Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
HA! Good pull!
Posted By: Raeford Re: Free food! - 12/15/15
He's correct, she is WRONG

PeeKan
Posted By: Ella Re: Free food! - 12/16/15
Chris c, thanks for the link. Dunno if I'm ready to pony for that item, but I'm wondering if something couldn't be rigged up with an old single stage press....

On the pronunciation question:

http://www.farmflavor.com/how-do-you-say-pecan-mapping-food-dialect-trends-across-the-u-s/


http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_21.html
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