>>111550054Why not buy sweet potatoes and use in both homemade pie, and a small portion of the potato dish? (which is called 'candied yams'). Sweet potatoe pie and pumpkin pie taste virtually the same because the pumpkin and yam are inert flavor carriers for the spice blend.
>>111550118no. it's just practise x-mas, and originated in the 1860s, but came to be what we know today in a tiny part of the early 1930s. FDR used government releif and farm subsidies coupled with pro-holiday messaging to create the menu we have. It was a great way to eliviate poor farmers who were dying in the partially man-made famine that would eventually be renamed 'the dust bowl.'
Drought, over ploughing, grain market manipulation, the credit collapse, bank failures, the cotton boll wevil blight, the Klan, and the oklahoma exodus all played a big part in killing the same population percentage as the Holdomor.
