Although not their official "storefront", Pecan Patti appears to be making its debut at Smorgasburg…read morethis year and from what I can tell, has been able to generate one of the longest (if not THE longest) lines I've seen!
But is it for their pecans? Tasty as the samples I had may be, the answer is no: it was for their mason jar sweet tea!
There's nothing like word of mouth to get a buzz going. You're shelling out $4 for a 20 oz cup of lemonade, when suddenly you start to see glimpses of these glorious 1L mason jars of effervescent elixir. First it starts with one. Then you notice another. Then the more you see, the more you have to have it, until you finally muster up the courage to ask someone, "where DID you get that?"
They smile, gesture over yonder and say, "it's the longest line that you'll find over THERE", and then part ways, smiling with their magical beverage in hand. And as you make your own way over yonder, you think to yourself, "whoa - that's one long line", because apparently everyone ELSE also finally mustered up the courage to ask someone else, and conveniently did so 5 minutes before you did.
So if you do decide to brave the line (which is not as fast as they say it is), you will be rewarded by a mason jar of their ginger, pomegranate, and citrus sweet tea. Tasty stuff and wildly refreshing on a hot Saturday afternoon (don't fret with the large amounts of ice they put in - it melts fast and the base is both warm and pretty concentrated, so needs all that ice), the ginger I would recommend for ginger-lovers (but "too gingery" for those without such inclinations). The pomegranate was very... ummm... "pomegranat-y"; but again, I'm a sucker for ginger.
But at the end of the day, was it worth it? Well, the $6 mason jar of sweet tea definitely lasted me much longer than both of the other two $4 20 oz cups of lemonade I bought elsewhere, and you get a nice mason jar out of the deal (which, my wife reminded me, that you can buy for just a buck or two on its own). But given the potential for crazy line-itis, I'd wait until after the crowd settles, or make it a tag team effort where frequent jaunts to visit other stands are made while waiting for your spot to slowly inch itself to the front.