Pumpkin or apple? America’s fiercest Thanksgiving dessert debate heats up

‘Tis the season for the hottest dinner table debate: Apple or pumpkin pie?

While there might not be anything quite as American as apple pie, for a small sliver of the year, the classic dessert gets edged out by a seasonal star featuring the orange gourd.

At Hoosier Mama Pie Company in Chicago, apple pie is the top seller for most of the year.

“It is the only pie we bake out of season because there would be a riot if we did not have apple pie,” chef and owner Paula Haney told Fox News Digital.

But at Thanksgiving, the tables briefly turn and pumpkin takes the cake, said Haney, the author of the upcoming cookbook, “The Hoosier Mama Book of Breakfast Bakes.”

“Pumpkin pie outsells apple at Thanksgiving nearly 2-to-1,” she said. “For this one little space in time, people want pumpkin.”