Sweet Potatoes

[LibraryLady]

Have you ever eaten a white sweet potato?

We were given two of them. They are in the oven right now...smell right, but look wrong.

Found this comparing the two:
http://www.differencebetween.net/object/comparisons-of-food-items/difference-between-white-and-orange-sweet-potato/

Husband: Who wants a white sweet potato?
Me: The same people who want a yellow watermelon.

[bodine]

I love sweet potatoes; never heard of "white" ones...

Never get to eat them, because my family doesn't like them...

[LibraryLady]

I had never heard of white ones before this gift.

Bodine--surely you could purchase a potato and bake it if you like them.

[GFB]

People like to call "Yams".."sweet potatoes"..which are NOT sweet potatoes.

Yams, which is what people usually eat at Thanksgiving..are that orangey color.

Sweet potatoes are white..though before everyone freaks out..the terms have been misused for so long..they have become interchangeable.

[LibraryLady]

I found this comparison:
http://www.differencebetween.net/object/comparisons-of-food-items/difference-between-white-and-orange-sweet-potato/

[Red Oak]

People like to call "Yams".."sweet potatoes"..which are NOT sweet potatoes.

Yams, which is what people usually eat at Thanksgiving..are that orangey color.

Sweet potatoes are white..though before everyone freaks out..the terms have been misused for so long..they have become interchangeable.

You would be wrong. The term Yam has been applied to the yellow/orange color sweet potatoes in the US. A true Yam is quite different from a sweet potato. A true Yam is starchy and larger than a sweet potato.

[GFB]

People like to call "Yams".."sweet potatoes"..which are NOT sweet potatoes.

Yams, which is what people usually eat at Thanksgiving..are that orangey color.

Sweet potatoes are white..though before everyone freaks out..the terms have been misused for so long..they have become interchangeable.

You would be wrong. The term Yam has been applied to the yellow/orange color sweet potatoes in the US. A true Yam is quite different from a sweet potato. A true Yam is starchy and larger than a sweet potato.

Sounds like we agree.

[Red Oak]

No we don't.

What people in the US eat are Sweet potatoes, "Irish Potatoes", and very few Americans have seen a true Yam, much less ate one.

[GFB]

No we don't.

What people in the US eat are Sweet potatoes, "Irish Potatoes", and very few Americans have seen a true Yam, much less ate one.

Read Library Ladies' link..pretty much confirms everything I said.

[Kiamichi]

Every sweet potato I have ever seen was orange, and I grew up eating them that we raised. White (true) potatoes were always called Irish potatoes.

[Kiamichi]

I have seen true yams in cans in the grocery store, but nowhere else.

[Kiamichi]

All the link talks about is the skin of sweet potatoes, presumably meaning the flesh is the same color. I have never seen a sweet potato with genuinely white skin.

[GFB]

Every sweet potato I have ever seen was orange, and I grew up eating them that we raised. White (true) potatoes were always called Irish potatoes.

We're into regional semantics now.

[Red Oak]

Oh my God, rigging yankees

[LibraryLady]

The potato I ate tonight had a thin skin, very pale brown, and the flesh was actually a very pale almost green.
It tasted like the potato I eat often--an orange fleshed root vegetable with thick brown skin.

Both had the same flavor.

I know an Irish potato--its flesh is white...,not the same color as what we ate tonight.
from Wikipedia

[url]Yam[/url] (vegetable), common name for members of[url]Dioscorea[/url]
[url]Sweet potato[/url], specifically its orange-fleshed cultivars, often marketed as yams in North America and as kumara in New Zealand

[GFB]

Oh my God, rigging yankees

Good thing those Texans aren't pig headed!