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>>> On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker wrote:
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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.
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>>> 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.

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>> Why is canned chicken hard to imagine? It was a common thing to make
>> during the depression.

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> Heh, not here When I was very young I was rooting through a kitchen
> drawer and found some ration stamps one was for sugar, I think the other
> tea. I wish I had them now for memorabilia. My family (parents,
> grandparents etc) lived mostly on bread and dripping and the few items
> they could buy with stamps. Canned chicken would have been the biggest
> treat on earth for Australians during the depression.


I had some ration tokens, but the box they were in didn't seem to make it
here when we moved. Neither did my yearbooks or scrapbook. No great loss
really since I never really looked at those things.