"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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>> Ozgirl > wrote:
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>> : "RodS" > wrote in message
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>> : > On 17/03/2011 10:58 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> : >> My mom always made the canned ones, mashed with marshmallows on the
>> : >> top. I
>> : >> always thought I hated them because of the marshmallows.
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>> : > Never seen canned sweet potato, never put marshmallow on a vegetable
>> : > either, WHY would anyone put marshmallow on vegetables ? I must have
>> : > led a sheltered life :-) Baked with butter and pinch of cinnamon
>> : > sugar, nothing nicer.
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>> : Bought KFC for the kids tonight and they now have sweet potato fries.
>> : Everyone but me was buying them.
>> : Might be tempted to try them one day.. I can't imagine canned sweet
>> : potato. As to the marshmallows, I'll have to keep imagining it Did
>> : someone one day just say, oh what the heck, I am putting marshmallows
>> on
>> : my sweet potato?
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>> The marshmallow dish is a cassaarole of mashed sweet potatoes, often
>> sweetened with brown sugar and/or pineapple juice, which is topped with
>> teh marshmallows adn baked. This is often a holiday dish, like for
>> thansgiving. Very sweet, as you can see. Not oneof y favorites even in
>> pre-diabetes days, but very popular as the holidays dish, like pumpkin
>> pie. My moher used to not use the marshmallows, but put slices of
>> pineapple on top.
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>> Another holiday dish popular in the USA is that string bean cassarole
>> made
>> with cream of mushroom soup and ccanned french fried onions. As our
>> thanksgiving meal alwasy had meat(turkey) we never even tried this dish,
>> but it never filled me with confidence as a gourmet treat:-) I think it
>> is thought of as a fancy vegetable tht is not difficult to make,
>> paratiularly if you use frozen string beans, which is the only kind many
>> peole know, evcept for those soggy canned ones. I know Julie was raised
>> on them, but I never could stand them.
>> to each hir own.
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>> Wendy
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> Canned onions? Wow, is there nothing you can't buy in a can there? As a
> child the only veggie other than potato that I would eat was canned peas
> I would eat them from the can lol. Although I do recall I ate some raw
> peas sometimes as I was helping my mother shell them. I spread my wings a
> bit when I started eating tomato sandwiches in my younger teens, but they
> had to be very ripe, with lots of salt and on the bread at least a couple
> of hours. It wasn't until I started WW in my early 20's (after putting on
> weight after marrying at 17 and having two kids) that I started to eat
> lots of veggies. It was that or starve. Now, I can't imagine not having
> veggies, I even prefer them over anything else.

These are not regular onions. They are fried in some sort of batter, I
think. I only ever bought them once and that was many years ago. The "can"
is actually a round cardboard box with a coating on it.