Posted on 04/13/2018 9:30:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Lots of real small lakes or real large ponds were populated with fish from eggs pooped out by seagulls......
Why can they get to the REAL question? Marshmallows or NO Marshmallows?
No Marshmallows................for me, anyways...........
What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen sweet potato?
Sweet Potato Pie will never be the same..........................
To me those are YAMS. A SWEET POTATO has yellow skin and yellow inside. I bake them and put lots of butter on them and eat them like a baked potato.
We peel them, cube them, boil them with butter and brown sugar, then mash them up.......................
Yeah, what you said.
The only thing I’ve ever seen that becomes even more colorful when cooked are kudzu blooms, purple also, a very strong grape scent and flavor. People make kudzu jelly from those blooms, very purple, very grape-like flavor. The purple sweet potatoes still taste like sweet potatoes but have a little something else, a little tangy to the sweet almost like fruit of some kind, not grapes though.
Not sure where this fits in the sweet potato migration theory, but the Jomon peoples of Japan where transiting the Pacific on the Black Current 14,000 years ago.
I’ve raised sweet potatoes and I don’t believe what we normally think of as seeds could cross the ocean. Slips formed from sprouted pieces of the tuber are what I always used for seed potatoes.
All of the following was found on Wikipedia.
“Yam is the common name for some plant species in the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae) that form edible tubers. A monocot related to lilies and grasses, yams are vigorous herbaceous vines, providing an edible tuber. They are native to Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The origin and domestication of sweet potato is thought to be in either Central America or South America.
The sweet potato was grown in Polynesia before western exploration. Sweet potato has been radiocarbon-dated in the Cook Islands to 1000 AD, and current thinking is that it was brought to central Polynesia around 700 AD, possibly by Polynesians who had traveled to South America and back, and spread across Polynesia to Hawaii and New Zealand from there. It is possible, however, that South Americans brought it to the Pacific, although this is unlikely as it was the Polynesians, and not the native South Americans, who had a strong maritime tradition. The theory that the plant could spread by floating seeds across the ocean is not supported by evidence. Another point is that the sweet potato in Polynesia is the cultivated Ipomoea batatas, which is generally spread by vine cuttings and not by seeds.”
FYI
The oldest pottery ever found was made by the Jomon People
It is my opinion that the Polynesians got their robust size from the Jomon people.
basically, none.
A yam is a sweet potato
https://www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/sweet-potatoes-101/difference-between-yam-and-sweet-potato/
Looking at that map, there is one logical deduction to make—President Trump’s 2020 opponent has a name meaning Sweet Potato.
I suppose it seems unlikely that anyone would bring the stupid things from one continent to another.
So, we can blame sweet potatoes on the poor bathroom habits of birds?
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