Christmas came early this year for some.
Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon said in an Instagram post on Tuesday the largest retailer in the U.S. began delivering new shipments of the Patti LaBelle Sweet Potato Pie.
"It took about 2 million pounds of California-grown sweet potatoes to deliver this Christmas miracle," John Forrest Ales, director of corporate communications at Wal-Mart, said in an email.
Labelle's pies became a hot commodity last month after YouTuber James Wright posted his enthusiastic review of the pies. In fact, Ales said Wal-Mart sold one pie per second for 72 hours straight after the video went viral.
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