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Default Sweet potato fries

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:26:42 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:52:43 -0400, Jim Elbrecht >
>wrote:
>
>> We mostly do either sweet potato or those Okinowan Sweet potatoes for
>> fries. I prefer the Okinowans- my son likes the sweet potatoes.

>
>Are those the white ones? I just started buying them recently and
>they taste great


Red on the outside- 'off white'(?) on the inside. Shaped like a sweet
potato, not a Idaho red. Ever-so-slightly sweet.

>.... but real sweet potatoes are still "orange" to me.
>


I agree. And while I won't call sweet potatoes 'Yam' - even
when the market does- I stick with what they call those potatoes from
Okinawa.

Jim