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[MrMike241]

Sadly, that might be true for about 50% of the country. I have relatives that love canned string beans and think fresh green beans are weird. I can eat canned veggies but fresh is so much better. A little olive oil and/or butter, and salt, roasted or pan fried is delicious

My mom cooked sweet potatoes baked in foil, but at the holidays the yams were in a sweet syrup. I usually tried the sweet ones, but never ate them. We never had the marshmallow dish. We only had marshmallows for camp fires.

I didn't grow up with a lot of casseroles. But we had fried chicken more than anyone that I know. Simple flour, salt, pepper, punch of garlic powder, Wesson type oil. It was good. Mom could have opened a fried chicken restaurant!

[MrMike241]

"Chef"? Blame Mary Brown? She might have inspired the pamphlet recipe?

Most people point to a 1917 pamphlet by the Angelus Marshmallow Company as the first time sweet potatoes and marshmallows came together. This company is believed to be the first to commercially-produce and sell the squishy white marshmallows we know, roast, and snack on today.

“Also in 1916, Mary Brown from Georgia contributed the recipe [Sweet] Potato Marshmallow Pudding to a community fundraising cookbook called At the Sign of the Rolling Pin,” Forrest says. “Mary noted, ‘this dish is used in the South with the vegetable dish,’ suggesting that the dish had been long in circulation before the Angelus Marshmallow pamphlet.”

That being said, the trend really exploded after the Angelus Marshmallow Company pamphlet was distributed far and wide.

https://www.southernliving.com/why-marshmallows-in-sweet-potatoes-8382811#:~:text=Most%20people%20point%20to%20a,roast%2C%20and%20snack%20on%20today.