On Sat, 22 May 2021 17:01:07 -0400, Dave Smith
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>On 2021-05-22 3:27 p.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2021 11:42:56 -0700, Taxed and Spent
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>>> On 5/22/2021 11:22 AM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 22 May 2021 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
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>>>>> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 5:08:01 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 21 May 2021 di1wrote:
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>>>>>>> I had a roasted sweet potato the other day.
>>>>>>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/CAAnhHWszTPGaBvq5
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>>>>>> You can buy them from street venders all over NYC.
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>>>>> 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. The Japan store Don Quijote, bought our local supermarket and these carts appeared in the store one day. Ha ha, that's just so weird. They are kind of expensive at 2 for $5 but I'm gonna get me some when I go food shopping.
>>>>> https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-dri...-sweet-potato/
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>>>> I started living in NYC in 1971. No one was selling sweet potatoes
>>>> from carts.
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>I can't vouch for them being all over the city because I have never been
>there, but a quick Google search came up with vintage photos of street
>vendors and there was one with a hot sweet potato vendor. There was also
>a NY Times article that talked about how popular they had been.
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>https://newyorkstreetfood.com/street...treet-vendors/


Ancient times. My memories of NYC street food only go back to my
teens.

There is a phenomenal food truck culture that has grown up there in
the last 10-15 years. Best stuffed arepas I ever had was from an
Colombian or Venezuela food cart. Cannot recall which, because we
sampled food from several South America carts at that festival on 6th
Avenue a couple of years ago.