The Difference Between Sweet Potatoes And Yams Explained In A Quick Cartoon
It's an age-old question, that you may have never found an answer to: "What's the difference between sweet potatoes and yams?" There is a difference, you know. If you could never tell what that difference was, or why it was even worth noting, you're in luck because Eva Hill of the Huffington Post has put together a very short, very amusing and very informative animation for you to find all your questions in this matter answered.
Make sense? Just for future reference and to recap, let's go back over the main points.
While the sweet potato can take on many colors in a chameleon-like fashion, the yam (at least in this illustration) looks like a gorilla.
Completely different hemispheres of Earth in fact, so confusing the two makes it even more strange.
Sweet potatoes are readily available and exactly what you asked for, while yams, well, are actually rarely yams. Be sure to find out for sure if you really want yams and not yams.
As you can see, sweet potatoes have delicious adjectives attached to them, while yams seem rather repulsive by the above description.
It's not just their skin coloring that is different: inside of a sweet potato is usually orange vs. white for a yam.
So, there you have: the five differences between sweet potatoes and yams–please stop confusing the two from now on.