This week’s Difference Between, like last week’s, is between two vegetables: sweet potatoes and yams. Although I wasn’t originally going for it, I also have a “winner” between the two.
You think you’re buying a sweet potato at the store, but it’s labeled as a yam. What gives?
This one was surprisingly difficult to research, partially because I remembered things I read years ago and tried to find them again and could not.
Note: Although this post was published in December of 2013 it was heavily revised and updated in January of 2018.
With Russian dressing and Thousand Island dressing, I used to believe that one had pickles and the other one didn’t, and I could never remember which one was the one with the pickles.
However, the difference between Russian dressing and Thousand Island dressing lies not so much with pickles, but with a different ingredient or two.
I have a new blog category I want to try out: difference between. How many times have I been in the grocery store and thought, what the heck is the difference between a yam and a sweet potato? Heavy cream and whipping cream? Thousand Island dressing and Russian dressing? (Note to self: future post ideas.)
That is not to say this category will always be about food, though. I mean, it probably will, but I reserve the right to explore differences between other inanimate objects.
My latest grocery store, “what is the difference between” moment was with Swiss cheese and baby Swiss cheese. After doing some research, I am ready to report the findings. Inevitably, I couldn’t help additionally delving into why Swiss cheese has holes.
I derived the following information from: RecipeTips.com, Cheese.com, GotCheese.net, HuffingtonPost.com, and MentalFloss.com.