Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 5/22/2021 2:22 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 May 2021 09:35:48 -0700 (PDT), 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. 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/
>>>
>>
>>
>> I started living in NYC in 1971. No one was selling sweet potatoes
>> from carts.
>>
>
> They used to until 1970 when the Roasted Chestnut coalition forced
> them out.* Thousands of sweet potato carts were abandoned, some
> dumped in the East River.* It was quite a battle for years.

Then the final blow came in 1980. The great coal shortage. Street
vendors couldn't get coal to fire their portable cart ovens.

By 1991, even the US navy stopped buying hot potatoes for the
troops to warm their hands at the famous brooklyn navy yard. It was
all over.