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LoveyQ
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Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
I've never made sweet potatos before, but will be making them for T-day. Recipe called for fresh yams.
THIS is what was labeled as yams in the supermarket and I bought:
But I just googled images and most of the pics look completely different! I'm afraid I'm going to cut these open on Thursday to cook and they'll be white inside instead of that orange-y color.
Did I buy the right thing? I couldn't find anything labeled sweet potato at the supermarket, by the way.
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Posted 11/23/09 11:19 PM  |
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
So real yams are from Africa and are white and taste like chalk. What is advertised in the US as Yams or Candied Yams come in a can from a company in Lousianna or are in fact sweet potatoes. A candied yam is really a sweet potato which has been hulled and is the heart of the sweet potato "meat." A sweet potato is orange inside and sweet. I would sacrifice one and cut it open so you know what you have in case you need to purchase sweet potatoes.
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| Posted 11/23/09 11:48 PM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Those aren't sweet potatoes!!! Those are yams! Yams and sweet potatoes are different!
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| Posted 11/24/09 8:13 AM |
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
I always buy my yams from the can 
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| Posted 11/24/09 10:45 AM |
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BunnyWife
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Posted by LSP2005
So real yams are from Africa and are white and taste like chalk. What is advertised in the US as Yams or Candied Yams come in a can from a company in Lousianna or are in fact sweet potatoes. A candied yam is really a sweet potato which has been hulled and is the heart of the sweet potato "meat." A sweet potato is orange inside and sweet. I would sacrifice one and cut it open so you know what you have in case you need to purchase sweet potatoes.
What she said. The yam/sweet potato confusion drives me nuts for some reason. Why do these companies and even some super markets call sweet potatoes yams!?
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| Posted 11/24/09 12:27 PM |
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rileysmama
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
wait i'm confused! lol i bought these orangey-colored, fat root-looking yams and they are orange on the inside but are called yams.....i thought yams were the root part of the sweet potato..
mine don't look like the OPs pic, they aren't hairy (no offense to your yams  )
and now that i think about it...you never see a section of sweet potatoes...just yams, right?
why is this so difficult??
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| Posted 11/24/09 2:50 PM |
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yankinmanc
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
I think this is what you want. yams is just some kind of colloquialism for sweet poatoes.
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| Posted 11/24/09 3:15 PM |
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rileysmama
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Posted by racheeeee
I think this is what you want. yams is just some kind of colloquialism for sweet poatoes.
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ok good....mine look like those....not the hairy ones.
lol
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| Posted 11/24/09 3:18 PM |
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LoveyQ
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Posted by rileysmama
Posted by racheeeee
I think this is what you want. yams is just some kind of colloquialism for sweet poatoes.
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ok good....mine look like those....not the hairy ones.
lol
First off, I'm DYING here at the reference to my "Hairy" yams!
And second, CRAPPPPPPPP!!!! Why the heck does the recipe call for YAMS if they really meant sweet potatos??? Man and those YAMS I bought were expensive too! Ugh. Now to find sweet potatoes that are called yams, but look like this pic instead... ok I'm confused again 
THANK YOU! Good thing I asked - I would have been super P.O'd if I realized this on Thursday!
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| Posted 11/24/09 4:10 PM |
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rileysmama
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Well, the positive thing is, you don't need to use those hairy knock-offs of potatoes.
...i won't even tell u what i really think they look like..
...like a 108 year old man's shriveled, sagging....yams. 
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| Posted 11/24/09 4:22 PM |
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LoveyQ
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Posted by rileysmama
Well, the positive thing is, you don't need to use those hairy knock-offs of potatoes.
...i won't even tell u what i really think they look like..
...like a 108 year old man's shriveled, sagging....yams.
I thought they looked funny when I bought them! But this is hilarious!
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| Posted 11/24/09 4:24 PM |
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maybeamommy
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
omg sorry if this was from my recipe!!
my mom calls them yams - but they do look like the picture someone else posted... not "hairy"
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| Posted 11/24/09 5:47 PM |
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LoveyQ
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Re: Uh oh, I think I bought the wrong thing! Yams???
Posted by maybeamommy
omg sorry if this was from my recipe!!
my mom calls them yams - but they do look like the picture someone else posted... not "hairy"
Yes, it's all your fault!
I'm just p.o.'d that the supermarket duped me DH has the task of looking for the real yams/sweet potato tomorrow!
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| Posted 11/24/09 9:46 PM |
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