As You Were

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February 16, 2006

Request for Produce Identification

I stopped by the King Soopers near my house on Monday to pick up an extra yam for a recipe for butternut squash soup I'm going to try. The basket labelled "Yams" held only what seemed to be mutant twisted yams, but I bought one anyway.

When I got home, I compared it to the yams I'd bought in Boulder over the weekend. The "mutant yam" has a slightly different (but similar) skin texture and the meat color is less saturated. The receipt says the checkout woman thought it was a jersey potato. It's not a jersey potato. But what is it?

It would be nice to know before experimenting with a new recipe in order to control variables.

Unknown yam-like produce
Posted by coughlin at 11:18 AM | Comments (1)
Comments

I have also wondered about these strange yams. Here is more information than one would ever need (including some very nice-sounding receipes) about the difference between yams and sweet potatoes from Texas A&M.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/vegetables/sweetpotato.html

But it doesn't explain why this yam is so twisted! maybe you could ask them...

Posted by: Jonah at February 17, 2006 5:22 AM