The Nueces River was named by the Spanish explorer La Salle in honor of the pecan trees growing along its banks.
The pecan tree is the state tree of Texas.
Georgia usually produces the most cultivated pecans for sale of any state in the U.S. Texas comes in second.
You may thresh the pecans from the tree or thrash them. Both words mean essentially the same thing.
In Cajun country, if you’re a “gone pecan” you are doomed, lost, unrecoverable. Let’s hope New Orleans isn’t a gone pecan. (Has anyone actually heard this idiom used in conversation or seen it in print? I just found it on the internet.)
San Saba, Texas calls itself the Pecan Capital of the World.
If you’ve written anything related to pecans —a recipe, a joke, a story, even more trivia— please leave a link. Everyone who leaves a link will be entered iin my contest to win a bag of pecans from our annual Pecan Odyssey, shelled by the Semicolon family, mostly me.
I’m sure you have one, but this is a great simple pecan fudge recipe http://www.texascooking.com/recipes/Pecanfudge.htm