Plus you can buy a satellite dish. In most developing countries, the water has a private owner, usually some multinational corporation. The land ain’t yours either.
Yeah, usually City Super locations tend to be smaller and tighter. Sigh.
Like the Mitsukoshi supermarkets I luv. Won’t see my face yet.
how does it look like?
Costco Neihu had plenty of items in stock, including milk, eggs, meat, fruits, and veggies, when I went shortly after opening time on the weekend.
I haven’t read the rest of the thread, but yes. Where I live in Taipei my local PXmart’s shelves have been looking pretty sparse for the past month or so.
Haven’t noticed any difference at Costco though.
Fun fact: there are different varieties grown for leaves and for tubers. You can, of course, eat the leaves and tubers of either variety, but they’re optimised to yield one or the other.
For anyone worried about the coming famine, they’re really easy to grow in a box of soil on your balcony, and they yield heavily.
Fruit and vege. There won’t be any soon. The whole market is rife with the rona.
Are we talking Yams or Sweet potatoes, we sometimes grow Sweet potatoes on the farm, but never grown Yams.
I’m just getting a bit confused as people seam to be using the the names interchangeably but they are two completely different plants.
I’m talking sweet potatoes.
Yeah, the English words are confusing. People are talking about sweet potatoes here, which Americans (nobody else, AFAIK) call yams. The conversation is a lot easier if we use the Chinese words!
‘Yams’ is not a very useful word. If you’re not American, it generally means either Dioscorea spp. or cassava. If you want to grow taro, they’re a lot of fun (but not particularly useful, IMO). They grow best in shade, with rich, damp soil. I used to grow them in a border area which was in deep shade and wasn’t much use for anything else; I now have some growing near the farm wells, an area which tends to get a bit boggy.
You know your yams and tubers. It’s endlessly confusing.
I don’t really eat carbs much, but all of these plants are really fun to grow. I have cassava, sweet potato, Colocasia esculenta, and Dioscorea alata. Very productive, decorative, and don’t need much attention.
They literally changed the world .
But not enough, IMO. I wish people would grow these things instead of rice and grains. The world would be better off for it.
I’m thinking Pacific islanders could never have succeeded without them in their back pocket.
Now sweet potato and origins of such …That’s a whole new thread !
The great thing about all of these plants is that they make excellent pig food (as well as human food if you’re that way inclined). You can just turn the pigs loose in a sweet potato patch and let them root around; they’ll have enormous fun and get fat and tasty. Many Pacific Islanders hit on this particular technique independently.
Its amazing how messed up they word things. I dont think its so much americans as much as marketing departments messing.this up. Yam literally means anything in the Dioscorea genus. This is actually very much accepted worldwide. Sweet potatoes are only the species of morning glory Ipomoea battatas. The reason they get confused isnt due to taste (extremely different), texture (extremely different), nutrition or anything else. I feel the real reason is due to growing logistics and marketing. Most all dioscorea are climbers that quite different growing environments. They are well suited to partial shade and prefer to climb up something. They are also almost all deciduous. When their plant stem stretches uoward, they create a massive succulent root underneath.
Sweet potato is mostly a sprawling.plant, a ground cover even. Their plants stems actually swell to.make a thick reservoir of nutrietns for.thebplants, as do their roots. Completely different growth form. The only thing they have in.common are they are tropical.and we eat them.
On the single open field we can probably grow double the weight in sweet potato as yam, and have half the costs associated with growing an harvesting them. On a scale on tens of thousands of tonnes, imagine what that means. Then extrapolate that to sweet potato being sweet and yummy, and yams being relatively bland and slimy.
To add to @finley posts, its not just americans that are using the wrong names, canada does as well. Most christmas/thanksgiving type meals. with that sweet orange yam are almost always actually sweet potato. Frankly, i doubt many caucasian north americans would even like real yams as they are so sticky/slimy. myself included, i hate yams. But i enjoy sweet potato now an then.
You couldn’t find a smaller picture?
Not so new, we’ve done that before!
But yes, i notice that carrots and beans and other long vegetables are all much shorter these days. They’re measuring in cm now instead of cun.