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UniquelyMoi
IP: 66.215.188.48
11/19/2005
13:10:19 |
 Subject: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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So, I'm telling my mom about the sweet potato recipes I've gotten here and she says "oh, I don't like sweet potatoes. I like yams". Soooooo,
the recipies you so kindly posted, will they work with yams as well???
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Barbara Wheeler
IP: 66.82.9.84
11/19/2005
13:17:13 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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Moi, as far as I have ever known they are one in the same. It is just contingent on how they are prepared. Candied, plain, buttered! What ever! They are all from the same potato.
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joytoday
IP: 69.139.202.143
11/19/2005
14:06:43 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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Barbara, you are correct. Apparently, the term "yam" is derived from an African word that is used for sweet potatoes. So they are the same thing. Isn't that funny Moi, your mom thought she was eating something different! :o)
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UniquelyMoi
IP: 66.215.188.48
11/19/2005
15:49:55 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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>>>Isn't that funny Moi, your mom thought she was eating something different! :o)<<<
What's really funny is that she told me that her mother, my grandma Janie, was so picky they had to back a sweet potato just for her!!!
Sounds like they were ALLL too picky!
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Grace
IP: 209.103.198.46
11/19/2005
19:09:14 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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I YAM A SWEET POTATO
By Dana Jacobi, AICR
http://www.cinnamonhearts.com/IYam03.htm
From Thanksgiving through Christmas, whipped sweet potatoes and candied yams are an indispensable part of the holiday table. These dishes also perpetuate a confusion that has been going on for centuries.
Supermarket bins are heaped with chubby and bulging or tapering and corkscrew-shaped tubers, in colors ranging from rose and copper to purple. They are labeled "yams" – but they are all sweet potatoes. Americans have confused the two for several hundred years.
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There's a lot of good recipes on this site if you're interested and more information.
I have a picky story for you:
My sister invited herself and her husband over one Thanksgiving for dinner. And she said that they didn't care for turkey so I'd have to fix a capon. I wound up fixing a capon AND a turkey.
In defense of them, however, they always took us out for a very nice dinner since they used to spend a few days with us.
Grace
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Moi
IP: 66.215.188.48
11/20/2005
01:14:00 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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Thank you for that site, Grace. It had lot's of recipes and interesting tidbits of information. I am going to check it out and see where all it leads!
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Barbara Wheeler
IP: 66.82.9.91
11/20/2005
15:17:54 | RE: Yams Vs. Sweet Taters
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I don't know if this qualifies as a picky story! Just a look back at little things that we remember.
My brothers ex-wife used to always have a migraine when it was time to clear the table.....Never failed! even after just having lunch with my Mum. She would excuse herself and go lay down with that tired migraine again!
Though she did suffer with horrid headaches, they seemed to always be available to bail her out of any clean up situation!
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