On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 7:05:34 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 1:03:53 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 6:39:37 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > > On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 12:35:52 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 5:08:01 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 21 May 2021 di1wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I had a roasted sweet potato the other day.
> > > > > >https://photos.app.goo.gl/CAAnhHWszTPGaBvq5
> > > > >
> > > > > You can buy them from street venders all over NYC.
> > > > My guess is that these are different from NYC street vendor sweet potatoes. They're quite different from any baked potatoes I've ever had. Oddly enough, they taste like pumpkin pie.
> > > They appear to be ordinary baked sweet potatoes. They taste like pumpkin
> > > pie because sweet potatoes and pumpkin taste something like each other.
> > >
> > > Do you detect any of the usual pumpkin pie spices? Nutmeg, clove, dried ginger,
> > > cinnamon?
> > >
> > > Cindy Hamilton
> > There is no pumpkin pie spices in there but the experience is similar - a soft custard-like texture, and and intensely sweet pumpkin taste. Beats me how one gets a potato to have the texture of custard. I think my family is hooked on these Don Quijote sweet potatoes.
> Baking them until they're done but not dried out. It isn't rocket science..
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I've baked potatoes before. Everybody has baked potatoes before. My guess is that your baked potatoes don't come out with a custard-like texture with a coating of caramelized sugar. Nobody's baked potatoes come out like that. It might be rocket science. My guess is that it's a specific variety of sweet potato cooked in a non-conventional way.