Jason Giambi extols the virtue of sweet potatoes:
Q: I never thought I’d be asking you, Jason “Party Like A Rock Star” this, but what is with the yams? I hear that’s the new trend you’re setting. I saw Holliday eating one and they said you started it,
JG: As you get older, you’ve got to find ways to keep playing and the old days of eating at McDonalds and staying out late are kind of gone.
EC: (laughs) Well, at least half of that’s true.
JG: Good point…. But I used to just crush McDonalds and I can’t do that anymore. I got that from A-Rod. The one thing you can say about Rod is that he’s really dedicated to his craft, and he always eats perfect. I saw him eating sweet potatoes one day and I tried it, and I wasn’t hungry after but I didn’t feel too full. I was like, ‘Wow, it’s great to play like this.’
There’s no evidence Giambi walks around the clubhouse doing a Popeye impression.
Giambi’s love of the orange tuber also reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from Third Rock from the Sun.
Yams are not sweet potatoes.
Technically, yes, but in the United States most supermarkets use both terms to refer to sweet potatoes.
There’s really no ‘technically’ about it. They are definitely different. That’s like saying apples and pears are technically different. Just because some supermarkets purposefully mislabel things, it doesn’t mean that we should allow the misconception to slide.
What ever they are, they started out as peas, before some chemical “enhancement”
If only people like Sabernar got as excited about politics and social injustice as they do…sweet potatoes?
“We must not allow this misconception to slide!!”
Heh.