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Why 2 different names for the same food?

Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:13 pm
Posted by Tiger Ryno
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:13 pm
Like sweet potato and yams?
Posted by Yellerhammer5
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:13 pm to
Poor example.
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:14 pm to
War Eagle Plainsmen Tigers need not answer.
Posted by OweO
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:14 pm to
You make yams with sweet potatoes.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:14 pm to
toMAYto

toMAHto
Posted by ScopeCreep
In the thick
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:14 pm to
Because a sweet potato and a yam are two different things.
Posted by Kingpenm3
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:15 pm to
Yea, why do we have different languages too. Weird.

Posted by Displaced
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:16 pm to
Posted by slackster
Houston
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:16 pm to


Yam on the left, sweet potato on the right.
Posted by AZTarheeel
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:17 pm to
Corn and the Mexican version of corn that comes in those giant cans at the grocery store.
Posted by slackster
Houston
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:17 pm to
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You make yams with sweet potatoes.


Posted by biglego
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:18 pm to
In some cases is Bc of the evolution of English language, esp due to French influence.
Posted by ForeverLSU02
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:19 pm to
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This post was edited on 11/14/16 at 1:20 pm
Posted by J Murdah
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:20 pm to
Green onions & scallions
Posted by bayoudude
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:20 pm to
In the case of yams i think it goes back to the African population here in the south. Yams are found in Africa as well as the Caribbean.
Posted by TheIrishFro
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:21 pm to


This post was edited on 5/4/23 at 7:48 am
Posted by BigB0882
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:26 pm to
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Crayfish


Shut your whore mouth.
This post was edited on 11/14/16 at 1:27 pm
Posted by MorbidTheClown
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:28 pm to
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Soda - Pop


coke
Posted by slackster
Houston
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:29 pm to
quote:

coke
This. Always.

Posted by PairofDucks
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Posted on 11/14/16 at 1:29 pm to
I don't know, Margo.

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