On 11/10/2016 9:58 PM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:43:44 -0500, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/2016 4:42 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 11/10/2016 1:17 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>> A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the sweet potatoes that remind me
>>>> a lot of chestnuts in flavor. I know you were thinking of the usual
>>>> orange type so I get why you didn't see the similarity.
>>>>
>>>> Guess what they talk about in the latest TJs Fearless Flyer. They
>>>> back up my observation:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/article/3243
>>
>>> Thanks for the link. True, I couldn't really relate. The only time I
>>> buy sweet potatoes are at the farm stand, and natch they're the orange
>>> type so common down here. I can't looking for sweet potatoes at a
>>> grocery store in recent years. I might have to look for some of those
>>> purple things.
>>
>> I think of them as red, myself. If you do find them, I hope you
>> like it, but you never know. Some woman at Delicious Orchards asked
>> me about them. I said I love them, they remind me a lot of chestnuts.
>> She said I hate chestnuts and we had a laugh. No red sweet potatoes
>> for her.
>>
> Maybe that's why it's not at the top of my sweet potato list... I
> don't like chestnuts either.
>
I *want* to like chestnuts, if that makes any sense. The one time my
mom bought some (1970's) and we roasted them in the fireplace they were
just so-so. That was in Tennessee, though; who knows how old they might
have been before she bought them.

Jill