Siobhan Perricone > wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Baked sweet potatoes are common in the south; at least that's the way
it seemed when I was in Florida a couple of years ago.