Important Factoid of the Day

[dmp]

Yams and Sweetpotatoes are not even DISTANTLY related.


That is all. Continue on about your business.

 

[no1tovote4]

Yams and Sweetpotatoes are not even DISTANTLY related.


That is all. Continue on about your business.

:shocked:

They sure taste like they are related!

 

[UsaPride]

Mmmmm, fried sweet potatoes

 

[Shattered]

Yams and Sweetpotatoes are not even DISTANTLY related.


That is all. Continue on about your business.

I don't like either one, so how's that important??

 

[dmp]

If you buy Yams in the US - they'll have to be marked with 'sweet potatoe' because Yams are imported from the Carribean. And are different...sweeter.

 

[5stringJeff]

Yams and Sweetpotatoes are not even DISTANTLY related.


That is all. Continue on about your business.

They are both in the same kindgom (that of Plants).

That would be a distant relation, would it not?

 

[dmp]

They are both in the same kindgom (that of Plants).

That would be a distant relation, would it not?

you are reaching.... I guess the operative word is 'distant' and what that word means to the reader.

 

[5stringJeff]

After a bit more research, I found that they are both part of the Magnoliophyta sub-phylum (flowering plants). So they are just as related as, say, an iris and a water lily, or me and my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate (bonus points: name that movie!).

 

[no1tovote4]

After a bit more research, I found that they are both part of the Magnoliophyta sub-phylum (flowering plants). So they are just as related as, say, an iris and a water lily, or me and my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate (bonus points: name that movie!).

SPACEBALLS!


P.S. I see your schwartz is as big as mine!

 

[dmp]

After a bit more research, I found that they are both part of the Magnoliophyta sub-phylum (flowering plants). So they are just as related as, say, an iris and a water lily, or me and my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roomate (bonus points: name that movie!).

...or a Dandilion to a water lily.

That's VERY distant.

 

[CSM]

As a famous sailor used to say:

"I yam what I yam and dats all I yam."

 

[nbdysfu]

SPACEBALLS!


P.S. I see your schwartz is as big as mine!

"Is it now now?"

 

[5stringJeff]

SPACEBALLS!


P.S. I see your schwartz is as big as mine!

Now let's see how you handle it!