Poll: Mashed potatoes vs. sweet potatoes?

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#1

Poll: Mashed potatoes vs. sweet potatoes?

#2

sweet, all the way. first, it’s naturally sweet (i never understood why people would need to cook it with sugar, it’s already fraking sweet). second, it’s way healthier than potatos.

#3

for Thanksgiving - sweet, most def

#4

Mashed.

Lumpy. Creamy. Doesn’t matter. Give me some mashed 'tatoes

#5

Mashed potatoes, most definitely. One of my all time favorite foods. Right up there with ice cream. :smiley:

That said, I do like baked sweet potatoes, so maybe they’ll be on the menu for tomorrow. (The only ones I ever encountered as a child were the canned ones with the marshmallows & despite loving marshmallows I couldn’t stand the dish.)

#6

Right there with ya. My two most favorite foods are Ice Cream and Mashed Potatoes.

#7

What about mashed sweet potatoes?

#8

Mashed tatties for me please omnomnom!

#9

Sweet potato and then throw in some parnsips booooyahhhh

#10

This. I spent about 25 years of my life not eatinga single sweet potato, extending from when I wasa baby and fed this involuntarily and when I took a chance on them two years ago.

Sweet potatoes are awesome and awesome FOR you. And they make great fries.

#11

YES! they sure do. i don’t know why there aren’t more sweet potato fries out there.

#12

This! I do mashed potatoes but throw in a sweet potato (or carrot, or turnip) for extra nutritional value.

But those sweet potato casseroles with marshmallows? No.

#13

some ways i enjoy my sweet potato

  1. just bake them. it’s fluffy and awesome. Especially great if it’s baked in earth.

  2. diced and cook with rice. (yeah, i’m asian)

  3. diced and cook with porridge.

  4. cooked as a dessert with a few slices of ginger.

sweet potatos are native to the Americas. only introduced to other parts of the world by the Spanish. it’s amazing some of the healthiest foods comes from the americas, sweet potatos, yam, quinoa, all easy to grow, extremely nutritious.

#14

Sweet potatoes are great sliced and fried like potato chips, and when fresh from the fryer you dust them with ‘Sugar in the Raw’ and ground cumin… yum!

For the holidays I oil them and bake them until cooked clean through, once cooled I peel the skin by hand. Then puree them with butter, maple syrup, nutmeg, cloves,cinnamon, allspice, brown sugar, egg, vanilla. Place in a cassarole dish and bake with a crust made of crumbled homemade (by me) pralines! YUMMERS!:smiley:

#15

Potatoes are NOT orange. :smiley:

#16

Sweet potatoes aren’t potatoes at all. They’re YAMS

#17

I like my mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Um, yum.

You know what else is good: wasabi mashed potatoes. Evidently no one else believes me because I’ve had 'em all of twice. Even time I look at a menu, I look for them but no such luck.

#18

the reverse is also true. technically there’s no yams on a typical north american holiday dinner table. as yam is in the Dioscorea genus, and sweet potato and yams as referred in North America both are of the Ipomoea batatas species. I guess since batata is native to America, people around the world just referred to it with something already familiar. Such as sweet potatos and yam, when it is neither.

#19

sweet potatoes certainly are great just baked in the oven. when i made them as a side for thanksgiving last year i used a food network recipe with chicken stock, orange juice, brown sugar, and maple syrup.

it was good.

#20

whistles innocently

that too could also be sexual