An American yam is a sweet potato. Just a word usage. It is not a
potato. The true yam is grown in Africa and other tropical hot areas
something else entirely. There are lots of varieties of sweet
potatoes from the deep red ones I grew up with and we called yams to
the pale creamy fleshed varieties.
Never ever have I seen a green fleshed cantaloupe. Sometimes there is
a thin green layer under the skin if it is not ripe. Musk melon is a
big group that includes cantaloupes, cranshaws, green fleshed
honeydews and canteloupe like "musk melons". My local farmers' market
that sometimes sells what they call musk melons. They look like a
canteloupe, but not as good tasting to me. I suspect you call
canteloupes musk melons down there because you like the sound of
it. :-)
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> And exactly what are yams? They're not really the same as the good
> ol' American sweet potato, I don't believe, which is quite tasty.
> It's like the cantalope thing: what they call cantalopes in the
> stores are actually muskmellons. Cantalopes have green flesh;
> muskmellons are orange. I guess the name "muskmellon" doesn't sound
> as nice to the city folk, so the stores call it what it ain't just
> 'cause it sounds prettier.
>
> Walt
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