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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2021 18:39:56 GMT
The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942, Bette Davis and Richard Travis skates around, while they rest he orders "Hot Sweet potatoes", man with a box serves it in some darker paper, and they both seems to like it. Was that a thing once? What does it taste?
Iv'e tasted something called Sweet Potatoes once, not sure if it was the real thing, since it was awful.
Remember the Night 1940, on Christmas Day Barbara Stanwyck opens an old stove oven, making something that looks like muffins, when Fred MacMurray enters he says something like ah! po'boys, but could be bouys, what on earth was that, since I've never found anything on the net that looks like the breakfast treat they talked about in the movie.
It's not earth shattering, but interesting for the future.
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 17, 2021 19:48:35 GMT
I think the Remember the Night one is popovers… They’re like muffins or rolls. Will check on the Man Who Came to Dinner one. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 17, 2021 19:55:49 GMT
Man Who Came to Dinner looks like just literally a hot sweet potato.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2021 20:00:54 GMT
I think the Remember the Night one is popovers… Like a muffin or roll. Will check on the Man Who Came to Dinner one Popovers when I looked it up, sound and looked more what I've seen in the movie. Thanks! Was it a Christmas treat once too?
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 17, 2021 20:02:28 GMT
I think the Remember the Night one is popovers… Like a muffin or roll. Will check on the Man Who Came to Dinner one Popovers when I looked it up, sound and looked more what I've seen in the movie. Thanks! Was it a Christmas treat once too? I actually don’t think I’ve ever had one, though they remind me of the rolls that we in the States have at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2021 20:14:59 GMT
Popovers when I looked it up, sound and looked more what I've seen in the movie. Thanks! Was it a Christmas treat once too? I actually don’t think I’ve ever had one, though they remind me of the rolls that we in the States have at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Thanks for the information!
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 17, 2021 22:49:18 GMT
teleadmSweet Potatoes baked.... MMMMMmmmmmmm ! Don't even need butter ! Cooked wrapped in foil in / over an open fire .... wow ! Culinary treat ! NOTHING at all like canned sweet potatoes (sometimes called yams) in a casserole with marshmallows or brown sugar. At the time of The Man Who Came to Dinner...they, as well as baked white potatoes, were sold by street venders ... also roasted chestnuts and peanuts.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 17, 2021 23:15:34 GMT
fwiw .. popovers are much air-ier and lighter than rolls or muffins !
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Post by teleadm on Dec 17, 2021 23:29:41 GMT
Nalkarj and Penn GuinnJust little unremarkable things one just notices in movies, and coming from another country doesn't always get and somehow keeps nagging. I call this case closed, and If you got hungry I hope you have a vendor near you!
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 17, 2021 23:33:35 GMT
Nalkarj and Penn Guinn Just little unremarkable things one just notices in movies, and coming from another country doesn't always get and somehow keeps nagging. I call this case closed, and If you got hungry I hope you have a vendor near you! I love sweet potato fries made in the air fryer ! They are like French Fries (in the UK - "chips" ) only better,
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Post by Nalkarj on Dec 18, 2021 3:46:55 GMT
teleadm Sweet Potatoes baked.... MMMMMmmmmmmm ! Don't even need butter ! Cooked wrapped in foil in / over an open fire .... wow ! Culinary treat ! NOTHING at all like canned sweet potatoes (sometimes called yams) in a casserole with marshmallows or brown sugar. At the time of The Man Who Came to Dinner...they, as well as baked white potatoes, were sold by street venders ... also roasted chestnuts and peanuts. fwiw .. popovers are much air-ier and lighter than rolls or muffins ! I bow to superior knowledge! 
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Post by Penn Guinn on Dec 18, 2021 4:31:12 GMT
Nalkarj I just happen to have a sister who used to make such fancy thingies as popovers and its relative ... Yorkshire pudding.
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