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Weblogette !
Guinea hens are some of my favorite neighborhood
chickens. They run up and down the street alerting us to the dangers which may be posed to Guinea hens and it just feels good
knowing I can eat one whenever I want.
I only have nine megabytes of free web space so every word is precious as you can see. Once I caught a
Guinea hen while still in my pajamas. How it got into my pajamas I'll never know.
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2005-09-03
There's a YAMwich with my name on it!
This is the 1053 night for preparing my Yamwich. It's like a sandwich except with . . . you
know . . . yams. They are really not yams at all, but sweet potatoes. In the early days of
our culture there were only sweet potatoes, but someone thought they were like yams and started calling them that. Pretty
soon everyone was growing up thinking sweet potatoes were yams. This became the first urban American myth. It was a mythtake.
On positive side, true yams can weight up to 150 pounds and can be kept unrefridgerated for
6 months. Yum!
Sweet potatoes are much easier to deal with. I get mine out of a can! We are not the only
people that call sweet potatoes "yams". The New Zealanders do too (amazingly they believed us when we called them Yams). Oddly,
they already had their own sweet potatoes which came along with the Maoris over 1000 years ago. Their sweet potato was as
about a big as a persons finger. The thing is that 1000 years ago peoples fingers weighed 150 pounds (each). After the
Europeans arrived and word got around that those Americans had big fat sweet potatoes --around 1850-- the Maori and European
New Zealanders switched over to the same sweet potatoes we eat which we originally got from the Andes mountains in South America.
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occurs to me. Check back biannually or even more infrequently !
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