Jill replied to Sheldon:

>> If out of a can it was butternut squash. The best sweeet potatoes are
>> those baked in their jackets... they're plenty sweet, oozing natural
>> sugar, they need nothing.
>>
>
> Canned butternut squash? Hmmm, I've never seen that. I've seen canned
> pumpkin (butternut is in that family). Sweet potatoes in a can are often
> called "Yams" even though they technically aren't Yams. And they aren't
> the same thing at all as squash. Squash grows above ground. Sweet
> potatoes are root vegetables.


Sheldon was talking out of his ass again. Canned yams are indeed canned
sweet potatoes, not canned butternut squash.

Bob