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Article: Bama's best pecan stops
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- Southern Living
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Plan to brake for pecans along Alabama's I-65 during your travels this month.
I call Priester's Pecans because I have to make a confession. Every time I stop there (about 35 miles south of Montgomery on I-65 at Exit 142), I stuff myself with free samples as if I'm storing up for the winter. I admit this squirrel-like behavior to Melissa Ellis, whose husband, Thomas, is one of the owners. "That's okay," she says with a laugh. "We figure that if you sample enough, you'll probably buy sooner or later." And I always do.
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