 You drop it right down there. Well, that thing looks like it's pretty thick. And so there's your problem. So some people believe that the pecan pie was created, again, by French immigrants in New Orleans in the 1700s. Others claim it originated in Alabama. So it's either New Orleans or Alabama. But the first printed pecan pie recipe appeared in the Harper's Bazaar magazine in an 1886 edition of that magazine. It's considered a southern dish.