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Baked Sweet potatoes, common in the south?
In article >,
(PENMART01) wrote:
> >(WhansaMi) says:
> >
> >>I was just wondering if baked sweet potatoes are a common side dish in
> >>restaurants in the southern US.
> >>
> >>We just ate at a Longhorn Steak House (it's new in Burlington, VT) for
> >>lunch, it was nice enough. Decent ribeye that I didn't have to cook or
> >>clean up after. Anyway, one of the side choices is baked sweet potatoe and
> >>I wondered it that was a common thing in the south or an affectation. 
> >>
> >Oh, yeah. Baked sweet potatoes (with butter, cinnamon, and sugar) are very
> >common in the south.
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> More likely yams.
Nope. They're *called* yams in some part of the country, but they're
not; they're potatoes. Yams are not orange, and not sweet, and not
small. And mostly not available, except in Asian markets.
Isaac
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