Hey, Adam! While you’re trying to figure out why the comic won’t load, would you mind adding up vote and down vote buttons (for the comments section, if not the comics themselves)?
Oops! Wrote the title before posting the comic. Wasn’t supposed to upload this sucker just yet.
And I looked into a plugin that would allow for up/down voting. Tried to get one to work, but it kept getting stuck going through the backlog of strips. I’ll keep looking though.
I don’t know how to implement it but I saw that Reddit is open-source on Github. If anyone knows how to make wordpress plugins that could be a head start.
Yeah but most times its just those horrible fat mushy standard cut fries made from their version of sweet potato. The shoestring fries though are sweet crunchy yammy heaven, with or without mayonnaise.
Not to be rude, but what are you talking about? I usually see your point of view when you write comics like this, but yams are amazing! My family eats them all year round, and considers “Ok” sweat potatoes on par with Great mash potatoes. Candied Yams are up there with Green Bean Casserole on the thanks giving food chart.
The worst part about sweet potatoes (they don’t sell actual yams in American groceries) on Thanksgiving is that they usually get covered with some sweet syrup. They’re already sweet; it’s in the freaking name. A baked sweet potato with cinnamon and butter is amazing, but chunks of canned sweet potato sitting in corn syrup is saccharine and disgusting.
My 11 year relationship with my husband almost ended ten years ago today because he DOUSED my Thanksgiving plate with sweet potatoes even AFTER I told him I did not want any. Drizzled that crap all over everything.
I grew up in the South. Sweet potatoes are the Devil and the Devil is everywhere.
I love a good sweet potato biscuit for breakfast, sweet potato fries – if done correctly – are delicious with a burger, baked sweet potato with a little butter and cinnamon is delicious, candied yams as a sweet mess at Christmas is a once a year treat.
Sweet potaters all year long! Those things don’t even need butter — just eat ’em right outta the skin. They actually get much worse with a bunch of fat and sugar added to them.
Okay, So, I’ve got this recipe that can be made with canned sweet potatoes or canned yams — once you stick them in a can in heavy syrup, they’re indistinguishable; in fact, I think that nobody serves actual yams at Thanksgiving. They’re not even related.
So, here’s how it works. First, you take a big ol’ can of the syrupy-sweet yams. And you put it in your stand mixer. You add eggs and a whole lot of cream, and butter, and even more sugar than you get from the fact that they’re already packed in sugar syrup, and you mix it up. Then you add a topping made out of brown sugar, more butter, and chopped pecans. And you bake the whole mess.
I actually can’t eat the thing. It’s too sweet for me. But I got a literal death threat (literal, but probably not serious — I hope) the year I didn’t bring it.
On the other hand, my cranberry sauce is AWESOME, and I’d be willing to bet that people who hate cranberry sauce would like it. Because it’s not the jelled kind — it’s an actual sauce. It’s designed to go on top of turkey as another option instead of gravy. I’ve got a couple versions of it, with various textures depending on what people like.
And, unless bubujin_2’s hatred is based on an actual allergy, I’d be willing to bet he/she might actually like it, because other than having the same main ingredient, it’s not even related to that other dish. Different flavor, texture, and even color. I mean, it’s still red, but a much darker shade of red.
Actual yams are rarely sold in the US. The term, “yam,” is used for the orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. The USDA no longer allows the term to be used (at least alone).
If you’re getting canned in heavy syrup, the can can be titled “Yams”, so long as it’s got an ingredient list which says “Sweet Potatoes.”
Canned pumpkin works the same way — a can of pumpkin may actually be butternut squash, for instance. Once you mix it up with pie-stuff, it’s indistinguishable.
If you live in an area with a pretty decent immigrant population, you can find actual yams. Many of the supermarkets I go to have a part of the produce section that’s completely various roots — yuca/cassava/manioc, jicama, actual yams, and maybe a couple others — I’m not sure, because I never buy any of them.
Maybe I should. They’re supposed to be pretty good.
My brother-in-law is from Puerto Rico. He made the Thanksgiving mashed potatoes from malanga blanca and potatoes. Once we added the garlic, cream and other flavorings, there was no difference. Delicious, though.
Being a Brazilian, I eat yam all the time. It’s the tasteless, high-carb version of potato.
Now, what you Americans call “yam”, which I think are actually sweet potatoes, we mostly use to make a certain candy which is supposedly the sweetest of all candies… the “doce de batata doce”.
My wife and I occasionally help to create medieval feasts (my wife’s are usually documentable); The food is usually placed in large trays or dishes in the middle of a table of six or eight hungry medieval reenactors. She quite quickly noticed that if someone at a table doesn’t like, say, olives or sweet potatoes, there will be another person who will happily eat that person’s share – or the entire contents of the serving dish. They in turn, won’t touch something in the next remove, and thus everyone goes home happy and stuffed.
OOH, I forgot mashed sweet potatoes. Don’t even need to add anything when you mash except a little butter and cinnamon. Ugly to look at, delicious to eat.
If I were to guess why, in America, sweet potatoes are often called yams, especially when mashed and served ridiculously sweet, I would blame slavery.
Yams, actual yams, are a staple of many African cuisines. And when you transplant a significant population to a new area, either voluntarily or, um, well, very much not voluntarily, they bring their culinary skills, traditions, and tastes with them. But they DON’T necessarily bring the actual ingredients.
So you have cultures making substitutions, but often using the same name of the original food.
Sweet potatoes are, of course, native to the Americas and very cheap, so would have been a significant part of the food provided to slaves. And, of the foods they would have been familiar with, sweet potatoes are probably most similar to yams. I mean, they’re not VERY similar, but, if you were going to compare them to SOMETHING, that’s probably what it would come out as. Mashed sweet potatoes are not completely dissimilar to yam fufu.
So I assume that slaves made fufu out of sweet potatoes, and so called the sweet potatoes “yams”. And their descendants still do. And that the dish made it into the “big house” as well, so slaveowners ALSO ended up eating it, and calling it “yams”.
It’s not the yam’s fault. Everyone makes the same vomit inducing recipe that starts with canned yams and ends with Karo syrup.
I do an amazing gratin with real yams and bacon that actually tastes like food.
In Australia, we eat roast meat and vegetables including sweet potato (what you’re referring to as yams) as a savoury. Large rounds of sweet potato are served the rest of the roast savoury vegetables, such as onions, normal potatoes, carrot, and so on. No crust of sugar on top, just sliced and boiled and baked with the roast meat. I’ve never seen an Aussie serve sweet potato mashed up with stuff on top of it before, as if it were a dessert instead of a normal part of a savoury main course. American food is weird….
Joel! We don’t have comic sign! It’s a turkey day malfunction!
Cambot dropped the ball.
Hey, Adam! While you’re trying to figure out why the comic won’t load, would you mind adding up vote and down vote buttons (for the comments section, if not the comics themselves)?
Oops! Wrote the title before posting the comic. Wasn’t supposed to upload this sucker just yet.
And I looked into a plugin that would allow for up/down voting. Tried to get one to work, but it kept getting stuck going through the backlog of strips. I’ll keep looking though.
I don’t know how to implement it but I saw that Reddit is open-source on Github. If anyone knows how to make wordpress plugins that could be a head start.
You could switch to Disqus.
That’s the one I had trouble installing.
Disqus sucks.
Every news site that uses it has a useless comment section.
Please, I’m begging on my knees – not disqus!
Feels like the alternate title for this could be “They Yam what they Yam”
…agig-gig-gig-gig-gig
So basically… You want to kick out the yams?
Oh my god! What a great alternate title!
Bust out the yams!
I see sweet potato fries on menus all the time now.
Yeah but most times its just those horrible fat mushy standard cut fries made from their version of sweet potato. The shoestring fries though are sweet crunchy yammy heaven, with or without mayonnaise.
I’m disappointed you feel that way. I love sweet potatoes. I could eat them all year round!
Not to be rude, but what are you talking about? I usually see your point of view when you write comics like this, but yams are amazing! My family eats them all year round, and considers “Ok” sweat potatoes on par with Great mash potatoes. Candied Yams are up there with Green Bean Casserole on the thanks giving food chart.
The worst part about sweet potatoes (they don’t sell actual yams in American groceries) on Thanksgiving is that they usually get covered with some sweet syrup. They’re already sweet; it’s in the freaking name. A baked sweet potato with cinnamon and butter is amazing, but chunks of canned sweet potato sitting in corn syrup is saccharine and disgusting.
My 11 year relationship with my husband almost ended ten years ago today because he DOUSED my Thanksgiving plate with sweet potatoes even AFTER I told him I did not want any. Drizzled that crap all over everything.
I grew up in the South. Sweet potatoes are the Devil and the Devil is everywhere.
…or maybe get a “Yam MsMuffin”
I like yams, and like Tony, love them baked with cinnamon and butter. Turnips…turnips can go to hell.
Nope, it cranberry sauce that I can’t abide. Used to make me heave up my innards. So pass me the yams and I’ll skip the cranberry sauce.
You talking the real stuff cooked from actual berries or that canned translucent red variant of jellied dog food? Oh wait, dogs hate that stuff.
I love a good sweet potato biscuit for breakfast, sweet potato fries – if done correctly – are delicious with a burger, baked sweet potato with a little butter and cinnamon is delicious, candied yams as a sweet mess at Christmas is a once a year treat.
Sweet potaters all year long! Those things don’t even need butter — just eat ’em right outta the skin. They actually get much worse with a bunch of fat and sugar added to them.
I love me some sweet potatoes. They are a staply in my diet, I use it almost any time I need regular potatoes for a meal.
Okay, So, I’ve got this recipe that can be made with canned sweet potatoes or canned yams — once you stick them in a can in heavy syrup, they’re indistinguishable; in fact, I think that nobody serves actual yams at Thanksgiving. They’re not even related.
So, here’s how it works. First, you take a big ol’ can of the syrupy-sweet yams. And you put it in your stand mixer. You add eggs and a whole lot of cream, and butter, and even more sugar than you get from the fact that they’re already packed in sugar syrup, and you mix it up. Then you add a topping made out of brown sugar, more butter, and chopped pecans. And you bake the whole mess.
I actually can’t eat the thing. It’s too sweet for me. But I got a literal death threat (literal, but probably not serious — I hope) the year I didn’t bring it.
On the other hand, my cranberry sauce is AWESOME, and I’d be willing to bet that people who hate cranberry sauce would like it. Because it’s not the jelled kind — it’s an actual sauce. It’s designed to go on top of turkey as another option instead of gravy. I’ve got a couple versions of it, with various textures depending on what people like.
And, unless bubujin_2’s hatred is based on an actual allergy, I’d be willing to bet he/she might actually like it, because other than having the same main ingredient, it’s not even related to that other dish. Different flavor, texture, and even color. I mean, it’s still red, but a much darker shade of red.
Are Yams the same as sweet potatoes? Because sweet potatoes are amazing. Prefer them to normal potatoes.
Actual yams are rarely sold in the US. The term, “yam,” is used for the orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. The USDA no longer allows the term to be used (at least alone).
If you’re getting canned in heavy syrup, the can can be titled “Yams”, so long as it’s got an ingredient list which says “Sweet Potatoes.”
Canned pumpkin works the same way — a can of pumpkin may actually be butternut squash, for instance. Once you mix it up with pie-stuff, it’s indistinguishable.
If you live in an area with a pretty decent immigrant population, you can find actual yams. Many of the supermarkets I go to have a part of the produce section that’s completely various roots — yuca/cassava/manioc, jicama, actual yams, and maybe a couple others — I’m not sure, because I never buy any of them.
Maybe I should. They’re supposed to be pretty good.
My brother-in-law is from Puerto Rico. He made the Thanksgiving mashed potatoes from malanga blanca and potatoes. Once we added the garlic, cream and other flavorings, there was no difference. Delicious, though.
Being a Brazilian, I eat yam all the time. It’s the tasteless, high-carb version of potato.
Now, what you Americans call “yam”, which I think are actually sweet potatoes, we mostly use to make a certain candy which is supposedly the sweetest of all candies… the “doce de batata doce”.
We get both yam and sweet potatoes in the stores.
My wife and I occasionally help to create medieval feasts (my wife’s are usually documentable); The food is usually placed in large trays or dishes in the middle of a table of six or eight hungry medieval reenactors. She quite quickly noticed that if someone at a table doesn’t like, say, olives or sweet potatoes, there will be another person who will happily eat that person’s share – or the entire contents of the serving dish. They in turn, won’t touch something in the next remove, and thus everyone goes home happy and stuffed.
I’ve never had yams in my life. Never. I guess they aren’t that common here in New Brunswick.
They’re gross.
You’re not missing out.
My sister keeps trying to sneak some on my plate every year and *straight into the garbage can*.
OOH, I forgot mashed sweet potatoes. Don’t even need to add anything when you mash except a little butter and cinnamon. Ugly to look at, delicious to eat.
If I were to guess why, in America, sweet potatoes are often called yams, especially when mashed and served ridiculously sweet, I would blame slavery.
Yams, actual yams, are a staple of many African cuisines. And when you transplant a significant population to a new area, either voluntarily or, um, well, very much not voluntarily, they bring their culinary skills, traditions, and tastes with them. But they DON’T necessarily bring the actual ingredients.
So you have cultures making substitutions, but often using the same name of the original food.
Sweet potatoes are, of course, native to the Americas and very cheap, so would have been a significant part of the food provided to slaves. And, of the foods they would have been familiar with, sweet potatoes are probably most similar to yams. I mean, they’re not VERY similar, but, if you were going to compare them to SOMETHING, that’s probably what it would come out as. Mashed sweet potatoes are not completely dissimilar to yam fufu.
So I assume that slaves made fufu out of sweet potatoes, and so called the sweet potatoes “yams”. And their descendants still do. And that the dish made it into the “big house” as well, so slaveowners ALSO ended up eating it, and calling it “yams”.
I gotta say, this is my favorite title pun so far
That title made me think of cannibalism . . .
It’s not the yam’s fault. Everyone makes the same vomit inducing recipe that starts with canned yams and ends with Karo syrup.
I do an amazing gratin with real yams and bacon that actually tastes like food.
In Australia, we eat roast meat and vegetables including sweet potato (what you’re referring to as yams) as a savoury. Large rounds of sweet potato are served the rest of the roast savoury vegetables, such as onions, normal potatoes, carrot, and so on. No crust of sugar on top, just sliced and boiled and baked with the roast meat. I’ve never seen an Aussie serve sweet potato mashed up with stuff on top of it before, as if it were a dessert instead of a normal part of a savoury main course. American food is weird….