What's the difference between yams and sweet potatoes?

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maroon barchetta
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Aren't they the same thing? Throw some brown sugar and marshmallows on them and call it good. Nobody can tell them apart, if they are even different.
toucan82
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I don't know, what?
FIDO*98*
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AG
Yams and Purple Potatoes are more like a russet in texture and not as sweet. They are objectively better than sweet potatoes
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While I was at the store buying beer on Monday, the wife texted and asked me to pick up 6 yams. I walked up and down the aisle and all I could find was several items of various Sweet Potatoes but no Yams. I gave up and bought 6 of the sweet potatoes.

Came home, put 'em on the kitchen counter, and the the wife said, "Thank you".
So, no difference (at least at my house)!!!
Whirligigs
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People who enjoy sweet potatoes need to be dissolved in acid.
Not a Bot
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Yams are starchier. They have a bark and look more like ginger. They are hard to find.

Most American recipes calling for yams are really referring to sweet potatoes.
AgResearch
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For your reading pleasure:
https://ncsweetpotatoes.com/sweet-potatoes-101/difference-between-yam-and-sweet-potato/
MEEN Ag 05
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I'm pretty sure the gas station in Carbondale does not have fresh yams.
maroon barchetta
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MEEN Ag 05 said:

I'm pretty sure the gas station in Carbondale does not have fresh yams.


Fine.

I'll take creamed spinach.
Vernada
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Pretty sure they are pronounced differently.
tandy miller
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