I Yam What I Yam

[00:00] Art Coalson, I think it's time for an under Google bull. What do you got for us this week?
[00:17] Super excited
[00:25] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[00:30] So was Thanksgiving last Thursday and
[00:34] And
[00:35] You know enjoying the sweet potato pie and the candy yams and I thought to myself
[00:43] These taste the same
[00:46] I'd like to know what the difference between a sweet potato and a yam is
[00:53] Mm-hmm. I used to know this. I feel like I learned this fact
[00:57] once every three years or something
[01:02] Joey you're just a vegetarian you must know
[01:04] I'm not very picky. I don't do much research into what I put into my mouth
[01:13] Fantastic
[01:16] So, I guess my first question is that's what she said for sorry, I'm sorry. Oh, no
[01:23] Is there a difference at all is it to you know that something has two different names, but I
[01:31] Don't know
[01:32] that's what I have always thought is that they are the same thing just
[01:38] you know if you're from
[01:40] the
[01:41] North you call it a
[01:43] Sweet potato and if you're from the south you call it a game or the opposite. I can never remember
[01:48] I don't know. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, like I don't feel like I've ever been at a grocery store
[01:55] That had both sweet potatoes and yams
[01:58] See, I feel like I have
[02:02] Hmm
[02:03] But they're like next to each other
[02:08] You think they just said ran out of they just ran out the they didn't have like two signs
[02:15] Well, no, they're no it's like I mean, they're they're both saving print. They're both like they root vegetables that look
[02:22] similar, right, but they like I
[02:26] Feel like they're negative
[02:27] Maybe maybe they're just fooling me by giving me the same thing and having two different signs depending on which region I'm from
[02:34] I think that's what we got here
[02:36] We got a a duff beard duff light duff ice situation where it's one tube and it branches out into the three
[02:44] Different bins and it's all the same thing. Okay, you think that one of them might cost more money, even though it's the same thing
[02:51] Hmm. Hmm that I don't sure yeah
[02:54] Make you pay a little bit more for that. Yeah, cuz it sounds exotic
[02:59] Does it I don't know
[03:03] sweet potato
[03:06] What if it's not the same thing, what if it's just a completely different
[03:11] thing
[03:12] Like what if it's a an animal or something, you know, like how the alpaca and the llama we thought it was the same thing
[03:19] But it was different
[03:21] Yeah
[03:23] They were very close they were I mean, that's what I assume I assume they're closely related but
[03:29] They could be different. So I think we've got two options. I think one is that they're closely related or
[03:34] the other option is that they are
[03:37] The exact same thing with different regional names
[03:41] Our option three is that uh, it's a marketing ploy
[03:46] Right like a hardy's and a carl's junior situation. Yeah, what's the rallies and checkers? Mm-hmm. Yep
[03:54] So it seems like it's a little bit
[03:56] More subtle than that. So it so it's like a venn diagram thing here. So yam is a type of sweet potato
[04:05] oh
[04:06] But there are many types of sweet potatoes. I believe is what i'm getting
[04:11] Yeah, so a true yam
[04:13] is of the
[04:15] discoria genus
[04:17] Diasporia genus and is generally imported to america from the caribbean
[04:22] Uh, it is rough and scalene very low in beta carotene. Are you getting that?
[04:27] yams are from lilies
[04:30] They're part of the lily family and sweet potatoes are part of the morning glory family
[04:36] Hmm. No, I did not see that. Yeah, uh that the yams are native to africa
[04:43] Mm-hmm
[04:46] And sweet potatoes are grown in the u.s
[04:49] Sweet potatoes only in the u.s. Does that seem right?
[04:51] um
[04:53] It seems like there's two types of sweet potatoes the firm sweet potato and the soft sweet potato which is has the
[05:00] Uh, the soft sweet potato has the copper skin and orange flesh
[05:05] And that essentially what?
[05:09] Grocery stores are doing is selling
[05:13] the two different types of sweet potatoes
[05:16] One is a sweet potato and one is a yam
[05:18] because true rams yams are african
[05:22] And starchy and not very good
[05:24] Yeah, so what i'm seeing is so the the pictures that i'm seeing of what a yam is looks significantly different than what a sweet potato is
[05:32] Yeah
[05:34] So yam has like a bark like skin
[05:37] That's more brownish whereas the sweet potato has like a reddish brown
[05:42] Kind of skin and the inside of a yam is white
[05:46] Yeah, so they're definitely different compared to sweet potatoes yams are less sweet and much more starchy and dry
[05:53] So it's like it it's a mix-up. So
[05:55] it seems like uh african slaves who came to the u.s called the local sweet potato nyami
[06:02] Or yam, which is what they called the yam
[06:06] In their native land, right? And so that introduced some sort of uh confusion
[06:13] Well, apparently we're still confused
[06:18] But I think so for
[06:20] Yeah
[06:21] So confusingly they are different things but people call sweet potatoes yams
[06:28] I think is what is happening
[06:30] I think yeah, this seems to be right
[06:33] Um, they are definitely not the same thing
[06:36] Correct clearly. There's a lot of confusion because we're still confused even though we've googled it
[06:45] Yeah
[06:47] I wonder why that there's so much confusion then
[06:50] They're not the same thing
[06:53] But it's like um
[06:56] It's language man, you can't contain language people are gonna use what language they're gonna use
[07:01] It's true
[07:05] Joey I am what I am
[07:10] Who's that who's that from I think that's popeye
[07:14] Okay
[07:15] Popeye Jones, huh? Yep
[07:17] Okay
[07:18] I think he said it about spinach. I think
[07:24] All right, I think it's time for a break. Let me go see if I got some sweet potato pie in the in the fridge