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Post by greg on Oct 15, 2009 12:02:18 GMT -5
WOW!! I didnt realize so many posts could come from comparing a sweet potatoe to a Yam!!! But in the end, isnt it like comparing a burro to an ass?  ?
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 12:03:59 GMT -5
Hey Hoopie, you must be online bro...Sweet Potatoes are delicious, but they have 11g of sugar per 100g of gross weight; whereas Yams have less than .5 of a gram, which I why I am avoiding eating that Sweet Potato I bought this week at the grocery store before doing research on the variations between the two. What are your thoughts on that? Even if it is a VERY small Sweet Potato, they weigh normally around 250g, and a medium sized sweet potato is almost 300g gross weight - so 22-30g of total sugar content before bed doesn't seem conducive. My fear... is that big stores, like Wal Mart, are also not aware of the difference between Sweet Potatoes and Yams (due to their wide spread interchangeable names over the years) and has been misbranding/selling them - which means I have been taking in over 30g of pure sugar about 3x/week if they have mis-labeled their produce!!!!What do you think, about both points man? Wal Mart sells potatoes under BOTH names, so maybe I am in luck and haven't gotten screwed with inadvertent sugar intake! Maybe I should post pictures of the potatoes in my cabinet and see if you guys can tell me which is which so I am not paranoid, lol  the big mystery seems to be which one is which. You look on one web site and they say that the red one is the sweet tater. You look on another and the yeller one is the sweet tater. So the mystery is which is which. If you wont my honest humble opinion i think no one knows which is which. So for me the red one that ive been eating has NOT done me wrong at all. I've eaten them over and over during prep and it worked out great. I'll say this if someone could give me a deffinate answer on which is which i would eat the yam do to the lower sugar. Ive looked at 2 different web sites and have gotten 2 different answers. Hey Arron think about this one. During your preps which one did you eat and do you think it made a difference in your overall outcome? I gotta tell ya... I AM RELIEVED I am not the only one that doesn't get it, hahaha! I actually read two different websites that were on the same page, as explaining Yams have crossed over into ubiquitous territory because years ago, there was a name confusion and although YAMS AND SP'S ARE NOT RELATED AT ALL (according to their genealogy in agriculture) people interchanged their names a hundred years ago and the problem persisted to this day. HOW ON EARTH can we map the human genome... but we can't have a decisive factual identification of two veggies that look nothing alike, and are also a wide spread staple of bodybuilding foods? HILARIOUS...........   |
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 12:11:04 GMT -5
WOW!! I didnt realize so many posts could come from comparing a sweet potatoe to a Yam!!! But in the end, isnt it like comparing a burro to an ass? ? [glow=red,2,300]BIG GREG[/glow] - hey man, I have been wanting to email you every day, but remembered you had that mystery problem with the outbox/reply back to me. Uh huh... suu-uu-re  Actually, speaking of Burros, I saw one in Nevada when we were there, lol. The thing with SP's and Yams is that they are truly nothing alike, in my last post I alluded to their agricultural properties and 'genealogy' is entirely different, plus a sweet potato has TWENTY times as much sugar as a true Yam - so it would be like comparing Ice Cream cake from Dairy Queen (I capitalized ice cream for some reason, you can tell I am dieting) to a slice of Ezekial Bread. PS: I'll have you know... my wife's birthday was yesterday, and she had to somehow find the inner strength and soul searching self control to survive the day, WITHOUT her previously ordered Zero Impact bars from last month. The consoling and comforting I had to offer was immeasurable, but at least I have the comfort of knowing my credit card number is written down on a piece of paper somewhere out there in the universe. |
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Post by greg on Oct 15, 2009 13:07:06 GMT -5
but at least I have the comfort of knowing my credit card number is written down on a piece of paper somewhere out there in the universe.
I gave it to my cab driver as a tip on the way to the airport out of Vegas!!!!!!
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Post by The One on Oct 15, 2009 14:17:49 GMT -5
Good stuff bro!! Too bad I hate em both, LOL! Really!? That's odd... seems like some sort of undocumented bodybuilding sin, lol. Ironically, I just had about 250g of fresh sweet potato cut up into strips and cooked in Canola Oil along with the obligatory foreman grilled 8oz chicken breast with sea salt and ground pepper - BOOYAH! I have been eating this meal frequently (every other day) during the past month of so - it is so enjoyable. I cook on pretty high heat with minimal oil, and the way I see it the high heat precludes and avoids too much oil from being soaked up into the potato strips. I count everything towards my carb cycle count, for instance today I had oatmeal (25g) blended with protein and ice this morning, and these meal makes 100g of total daily carbs thusfar. I am going for another 100g tonight at dinner, because as rare as it is around here, we are actually going out to eat at Texas Roadhouse - strip steak, vegetables steamed without butter, and sweet potato (baked) HERE I COME! I don't want to consume any item that causes such confusion! Just give me some oatmeal or brown rice and I am good. LOL! |
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 16:27:47 GMT -5
but at least I have the comfort of knowing my credit card number is written down on a piece of paper somewhere out there in the universe. I gave it to my cab driver as a tip on the way to the airport out of Vegas!!!!!!  Wait... after reading your PM... allow me to change my emoticon:  (that's from me, not you know who, HAAA!) |
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 16:32:28 GMT -5
Really!? That's odd... seems like some sort of undocumented bodybuilding sin, lol. Ironically, I just had about 250g of fresh sweet potato cut up into strips and cooked in Canola Oil along with the obligatory foreman grilled 8oz chicken breast with sea salt and ground pepper - BOOYAH! I have been eating this meal frequently (every other day) during the past month of so - it is so enjoyable. I cook on pretty high heat with minimal oil, and the way I see it the high heat precludes and avoids too much oil from being soaked up into the potato strips. I count everything toward my carb cycle count, for instance today I had oatmeal (25g) blended with protein and ice this morning, and these meal makes 100g of total daily carbs thus far. I am going for another 100g tonight at dinner, because as rare as it is around here, we are actually going out to eat at Texas Roadhouse - strip steak, vegetables steamed without butter, and sweet potato (baked) HERE I COME! I don't want to consume any item that causes such confusion! Just give me some oatmeal or brown rice and I am good. LOL!  A VERY valid point sir... but, my qualm is that it SHOULD ( should be the operative word) be simple - and it is leaving me feeling quite thick, lol. I have never looked into the difference between the two... [glow=red,2,300]BUT AS YOU ALL WILL SOON SEE, I did take pictures at Wal Mart a few minutes ago, and wait until you see the results![/glow] I will post those pictures after I do some legs, it's been about 30min since my NO-Shotgun went down the gullet, and I'm going to see about squatting 700 pounds today ( minus 400). |
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 23:46:40 GMT -5
Unable to escape the inescapable past few hours of saturated replete thoughts of Yam and Potatoes I knew I should end my evening with the following trifecta of images, and not the Olympia week pictures as once planned. I would not want to deprive myself of sleep, or needlessly spread that same ultimate fate to my fellow forum friends, by starving them of the following promised pics... Attachments:
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 23:49:05 GMT -5
2 of 3... now, notice the label on the above signs... NO MENTION of the word "Yam" at the Wonderful World of Wal Mart... yet, these look eerily familiar to something called a Yam... Exhibit B.... Watson? Attachments:
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 15, 2009 23:52:27 GMT -5
SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST...This is truly the crowned jewel of all perplexing conundrums within the known universe... giving the formidable foe status to topics like string theory and thermonuclear dynamics... THE WRAPPER ACTUALLY HAS BOTH names listed... YAMS AND SWEET POTATOES!!?? Please, take a moment for a moment of silence as a parallel universe implodes into a black hole for this unearthed discovery of cosmic proportions. Attachments:
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Post by Ivan Drago - aka Arny/Dolph/AM on Oct 18, 2009 10:38:18 GMT -5
From: homecooking.about.com
Sweet Potatoes
"Popular in the American South, these yellow or orange tubers are elongated with ends that taper to a point and are of two dominant types (uh oh.... read on). The paler-skinned sweet potato has a thin, light yellow skin with pale yellow flesh which is not sweet and has a dry, crumbly texture similar to a white baking potato. The darker-skinned variety [glow=red,2,300]which is most often called "yam" in error[/glow] has a thicker, dark orange to reddish skin with a vivid orange, sweet flesh and a moist texture."
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! They were BOTH Sweet Potatoes... what the? My entire fabricated universe has just crumbled around me and been gruesomely disassembled in a whirling cosmic in-sink disposal system!!!!!
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(that's from me, not you know who, HAAA!)
A VERY valid point sir... but, my qualm is that it SHOULD (should be the operative word) be simple - and it is leaving me feeling quite thick, lol. I have never looked into the difference between the two... [glow=red,2,300]BUT AS YOU ALL WILL SOON SEE, I did take pictures at Wal Mart a few minutes ago, and wait until you see the results![/glow]
