Had a somewhat confused discussion about yuca with the spouse this morning, resolved when I pulled up various websites and explained that yuca != yucca, but also != jicama.
@fade root veggie names are wonderfully confusing. Sometimes I like to go look at the wikipedia turnip disambiguation page for fun.
@PraisegodBarebones @fade and jicama is present on the page too…
oh, wait, they split the disambiguation page up! The page I’m thinking of is now the Turnip (terminology) page:
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@PraisegodBarebones @fade @gannet wait England calls jicama a yam‽
…..what do they call yams then???
@twotone truly the most confusing of root vegetable names!
@Satsuma I think yams might be my nemesis just based on how unpredictable they can be. Will it be a sweet potato? A slimy mountain yam? Some other kind of root vegetable that may or may not behave like any of the above?