"RodS" > wrote in message
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> On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker wrote:
>> > wrote:
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>> : > wrote in message
>> : ...
>> :> 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.
>> :>
>> :> 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.
>>
>> : 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Another holiday dish popular in the USA is that string bean cassarole
>> made
>> with cream of mushroom soup and ccanned french fried onions.
>
> Something else never seen here (at least I never have) a bit like
> canned chicken and canned pumpkin also never seen and hard to imagine.
> What other novel things do you lot put in a can :-) I *have* seen
> fried grasshoppers, not a big seller though.

I have seen the canned chicken here, only once but quite recently. I had
no urge to buy it