Yams or sweet potatoes?
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If I may add something as well here gg...there's a shit load of yams out there! You got Jamaican yams, those weird looking purple turd- like tatoes, then you have the white yams…they look like a friggin' tree root, that came form one of those giant sequoias in yellow stone, they are very dark and have a very hard bark-like skin -jesus!- then there’s the small yellow yams from asia…japanese yams...I’m confused as well here. Can someone post a picture of friggin yam that should be eaten when dieting for the very slow retards around here? 
Are yams, sweet potatoes? When going to the grocery store, I ask for yams and they point to the sweet potatoes. Huh?! I do a search on line for yams…and I get something like “In American supermarkets, sweet potatoes are displayed next to something called "yams," which are moister than sweet potatoes and have darker skins. But according to the rest of the world (and botanists), we have it all wrong. To them, our "yams" are just a variety of sweet potatoes. They use the word yam to describe a completely different vegetable, something we call a tropical yam.” WTF?! Should I just lay off the X cause it’s turning my brain into slush? 
Are yams, sweet potatoes? When going to the grocery store, I ask for yams and they point to the sweet potatoes. Huh?! I do a search on line for yams…and I get something like “In American supermarkets, sweet potatoes are displayed next to something called "yams," which are moister than sweet potatoes and have darker skins. But according to the rest of the world (and botanists), we have it all wrong. To them, our "yams" are just a variety of sweet potatoes. They use the word yam to describe a completely different vegetable, something we call a tropical yam.” WTF?! Should I just lay off the X cause it’s turning my brain into slush?
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yam
1. Any of numerous chiefly tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea, many of which have edible tuberous roots.
2. The starchy root of any of these plants, used in the tropics as food.
3. Chiefly Southern U.S. See sweet potato. See Regional Note at goober.
Okay, I'm still confused.
Update: "In the United States, the sweeter varieties of the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) are often mistakenly called "yams". Sweet potato "yams" are widely available in U.S. food stores. True yams are only found in specialty markets such as those that serve Asian or Caribbean communities."
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yams
1. Any of numerous chiefly tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea, many of which have edible tuberous roots.
2. The starchy root of any of these plants, used in the tropics as food.
3. Chiefly Southern U.S. See sweet potato. See Regional Note at goober.
Okay, I'm still confused.
Update: "In the United States, the sweeter varieties of the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) are often mistakenly called "yams". Sweet potato "yams" are widely available in U.S. food stores. True yams are only found in specialty markets such as those that serve Asian or Caribbean communities."
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yams
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