"Polly Esther" > wrote in message
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> "Judy Haffner" >
>> I'm going by what our local supermarkets have them labeled. They are
>> always side by side in the produce section and the sign for yams is by a
>> more reddish skinned potato, where the sweet potato is a little
>> different shape and has a light tan peel on it. The flavor is altogether
>> different. Maybe the stores labels are misleading, but I was taking
>> their word for it?
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> You can't pay much mind to the signs and labels in our little grocery,
> especially in the produce section. Potato's 2# $5. (In the alternative,
> you could buy them for $2 per pound.) I didn't ask potato's what? There
> are some things it's just better not to know. Polly

lol yours too eh? We call it the 'grocer's apostrophe'

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