As my wife was checking out at the grocery store Saturday, the bag boy asked “what are those”, bagging sweet potatoes.
My wife told him they were sweet potatoes and that they were baked in the oven and then eaten with butter and maybe brown sugar. The bagboy had never eaten sweet potatoes and told her that the only potatoes he had ever eaten were French fries
Sad commentary on society
Often a potato (in the form of french fries) is the only vegetable a lot of school-age kids eat. Of course, they often need the carbs. :^)
A long-gone restaurant near where I used to live had an appetizer, sweet potato fries, cut and cooked like french fries, and served with honey mustard and brown sugar. I used to gete that and no entree’.