Episode 106: Sweet Potatoes

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm Matthew and I'm Matthew and I'm Malame and this is spelled milk the show
0:09.9	where we chew something delicious eat it, and you can't have any.
0:14.1	Today we're talking about sweet potatoes.
0:15.8	Sweet!
0:17.2	Mm-hmm.
0:18.2	You know, I feel like this is something that I wish I knew more about,
0:21.8	and you know, I did a little bit of research and I made
0:23.8	you don't know very much about it because I was gonna make you do all the talking
0:27.4	that would be a terrible show that's that would be one of my famous soliloquies that we try and cut out.
0:37.0	But, yeah, I mean, I will, I will take on the central semantic issue that we're going to plow into. How about that? Okay. It's also a
0:46.9	biological issue and you're the biologist here. I'm the human biologist. Well but if we built a gallum out of sweet potatoes, you would be the expert.
0:56.1	So okay, maybe we should just jump straight into this linguistic semantic biological issue.
1:01.1	Let's talk about the Sweet Potato YAM thing.
1:03.2	Okay, so I never really know how I should feel about these, what do you call a plant or animal
1:10.7	type of deals, you know? You with me here?
1:14.0	Yeah, I'm with you.
1:15.0	Okay.
1:16.0	Because, you know, to a plant person or perhaps a botanist, a plantologist,
1:22.0	sweet potatoes and yams are totally different
1:25.8	unrelated vegetables. Okay. And yams are you know they're a staple food in
1:30.8	in many parts of Africa and the Caribbean.
1:34.2	I know them from Japan.
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