Thanksgiving Poll: What do you call this?

[Ediacara]

[Lethe]

1. yams are different from sweet potatoes

technically they are not the same thing

[Irishonly]

14. Yes

they are. Yams are reddish on the outside and to me the color of the actual yam is orange. Sweet potatoes are more yellow in color.

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. I live in Oregon...

I call them a Sweet Potato.. I also think they are fucking gross.

[MissMarple]

6. It's all in the preparation...honest.

I always make them savory, and they are better for some of us than white potatoes.

[Ravenseye]

20. slice them thin

Use a cheese slicer. Cut em thin, and then bake them for 10-20 minutes till they're crisp. MMMM.

Sweet Potato mush though is GROSS.

[Little Wing]

3. Stuff I see on someone else's plate

:puke:

[MissMarple]

4. It's a sweet potato...

I watched the food channel today. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same. They are from quite different species, as it seems. Yams ,apparently, are from the lily family. :shrug: I could have misapprehended,... but I don't think so.

[yellowcanine]

16. Correct, except that there is no "P" on sweet tater.

[QMPMom]

5. THIS is a yam:

[MissMarple]

7. Ermmm...good to know...

:rofl: More graphic than the food channel. But I am sure they are quite tasty when properly prepared.

[Lady Freedom]

9. That is another type of yam.

sometimes called a wood yam due to it's rough skin.

[Lady Freedom]

8. You have there is one sweet potato and the one cut in half is a Yam

They are both from the same root family, but yams have more a stringy texture than the american counterpart.

[Ediacara]

19. The cut and uncut root is the same type of root

[Broken_Hero]

10. A food my parents

always forced me to eat, during my childhood...I'm not from the south, and I call it a sweet potato.

[bigwillq]

11. Sweet potato

I am from the north.

[wildhorses]

12. sweet potatoes, or sometimes sweet taters

depending on my mood

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. I'm from Maryland (which I don't consider the South)

and I call it a sweet potato. I like sweet potatoes.

I always thought sweet potatoes were different from yams. I remember my father trying to coax me to eat a candied yam. I had already tried them previously, but did not like them.

"They taste like candy," he said.

"No they don't," I returned dryly.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

15. Sweet potato...

Yams are those big, ugly, brown, waxy things that look like tree branches that is in the produce section. From what I understand, they also have no taste.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. They're all sweet potatoes, for the most part

Yams and Sweet Potatoes aren't in the same family, and what most Americans think is a yam is actually a sweet potato. You can find yams in some stores in the U.S., but it's pretty rare, I think.

[Ediacara]

18. TWO GOLD STARS for almost everyone!

I'm actually quite shocked.

This is indeed a Beauregard Sweet Potato. Beauregards are almost universally marketted as "yams" outside the southeastern USA. Why? Who the fuck knows, as many people have pointed out, they're nothing like true yams.