Yes you read that right...they were a kind of red skinned, white fleshed sweet potato grown in the South, this is from Georgia, 1910'spic.twitter.com/LkRWpqDzIi
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Any info on how they got that name? Seems oddly specific for a vegetable so common in the South, there must be a story to tell...
It was the sweet potato preferred by the enslaved
Thanks for the info, but surely not known for actual choking, though I can understand the derogatory connotation if they were eaten often.
Choking them down...expression for eating a lot.
That's what I thought - the implication being about large quantities and "crude" behavior. Snarfing meets bigoted snark and insult.
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