I ran into this a few times, recently, on YouTube: the controversy—nay, the open conflict—about whether to put marshmallows on your sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving. Max Miller did a poll a few days ago, and he says the results were split nearly fifty-fifty. Being the voracious eater that I am, I'm not particularly picky about the marshmallow thing: I like my sweet potatoes sweet and maybe a bit maple-y, with or without marshmallows. Stir crumbled nuts into the potatoes or not; put candied pecans or walnuts on top or not; this is one area where I'm not that choosy. Anyway, Miller has a new YouTube Short that goes a bit into the history of putting marshmallows on sweet potatoes, and it turns out there's a specific year when it happened, and the person responsible for introducing that trend also introduced the notion of putting marshmallows into hot chocolate (something I definitely love doing).
Sunday, November 19, 2023
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I voted "no opinion" in Max's poll because I hate American-style sweet potato casseroles. I did read some comments from people saying they treated sweet potatoes like a savory dish, though. That might be an interesting approach. In general, though, I greatly prefer Korean white sweet potatoes (밤고구마) to the orange American sweet potatoes.
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