AH-1W Cobra ,,Apocalyptic replacement chopper build.

[NARSES2]

Only time I ever had sweet potato I almost spat it out, way to sweet for me. It was as though someone had thrown a handfull of sugar over it. This was somewhere in the Caribbean.

OK that kinda explains it mate ...Caribbean cooking can be pretty sweet and very spicy like jerk chicken .

Now spicy food I love, but even as a child I didn't like sweet food. Given the choice between sweets or cheese, I'd take the cheese. Still would.

[jcf]

Only ever eaten pumkin once, can't remember if it was in Italy or the U,S., to sweet for me, but then I've never had a sweet tooth even as a child.

Pumpkin or pumpkin used in a tart or pie? The sweetness will come from what has been mixed in, by itself just roasted or used in a soup/stew etc. it's little different from other varieties of "winter" squash. There are varieties of so-called sugar pumpkins which are naturally slightly sweeter but it's not like a pie or tart filling that's been made with an excessive amount of sugar.

As to sweet potatoes it depends on the type and how they've been prepared, roasted, baked or steamed and then eaten as they are is much different than the horrible, add sugar and bury them in marshmallows thing. Shudder. They're naturally "sweet" and don't need any additional sweetening, they also take savory spices very well.
Horses for courses of course.

[jcf]

But the American palate can be more oriented to the sweet, from what I understand.
As for the idea of mixing marshmallow into mashed potato... yikes.

It's regionally variable to a large degree and largely a result of sugar being cheap in the US for a very long time. Overly sugared foods are especially prevalent in the South due to sugar being very cheap, because it was both grown and produced in the region plus centuries of "low" labour costs. Before and after the Civil War.

One thing my Mum noticed after we moved to the US is that recipes that were otherwise the same called for more sugar than the Canadian version.

[Rick Lowe]

But the American palate can be more oriented to the sweet, from what I understand.
As for the idea of mixing marshmallow into mashed potato... yikes.

It's regionally variable to a large degree and largely a result of sugar being cheap in the US for a very long time. Overly sugared foods are especially prevalent in the South due to sugar being very cheap, because it was both grown and produced in the region plus centuries of "low" labour costs. Before and after the Civil War.

One thing my Mum noticed after we moved to the US is that recipes that were otherwise the same called for more sugar than the Canadian version.

Yeah, that makes sense - encourage the use of a cheap commodity to keep the wheels of commerce/healthcare/insurance turning... sorry, a bit negative there, but I is who I is. 

Sugar added to regular, white bread? Yuk.

There again, we're not immune... there was cooking show here whose host also featured in adverts for a sugar company... guess what she added to nearly every recipe.

[Wardukw]

Only time I ever had sweet potato I almost spat it out, way to sweet for me. It was as though someone had thrown a handfull of sugar over it. This was somewhere in the Caribbean.

OK that kinda explains it mate ...Caribbean cooking can be pretty sweet and very spicy like jerk chicken .

Now spicy food I love, but even as a child I didn't like sweet food. Given the choice between sweets or cheese, I'd take the cheese. Still would.

Kinda like my sis and I when we grew up..we didn't get much in the way of sweets unless it was like Xmas and so on but when it came to nibbles ..cheese..olives..gherkins/pickles ...mate to this day I still prefer a lovely hard Mainland (brand name) tasty cheese and a nice juicey gherkin over chocolate 😀
Still tho ..Nestle old gold dark chocolate peppermint 😋 😆

[Rick Lowe]

Whittakers for me, but I concur most wholeheartedly about the dark peppermint!

[Wardukw]

Whittakers for me, but I concur most wholeheartedly about the dark peppermint!

Only old gold peppermint for me but also classic milky bar 😁
I can't eat Cadbury chocolate..it's just about it which my throat don't like .

[Old Wombat]

I'm sure there were some posts about a helicopter here somewhere!?  

[Wardukw]

I'm sure there were some posts about a helicopter here somewhere!?  

Blame Ken Guy..he brought up pumpkins 😁😁😁

[Rick Lowe]

I'm sure there were some posts about a helicopter here somewhere!?  

Yeah, yeah - we'll get back there eventually... 

Concur about Cadbury's tho - haven't liked it since they started with palm oil. X-P

[zenrat]

This arvo I made a beef casserole with carrots, pumpkin, sweet potato, onion, (loads of) garlic, and cheesy dumplings.
Slow cooked for 4 1/2 hrs.
Though I say it myself it was rather good.  There is some sweetness there from the veg but its not overwhelming.

[NARSES2]

My go to chocolate is Lindt Dark with hazel nuts, just a square every now and then as a treat, and don't tell my doctor 

[Scotaidh]

I can't stand pumpkin pie ... Jumping on the anti-sweetness bandwagon, I like my pumpkins chopped up and boiled.  Mashed or cubed doesn't matter - served with a wee bit of butter and I'm a happy man ...

Helicopter!  When I was in the Nat. Guard, doing exercises on the nearby Army base, a Cobra flew over right at tree-top level ... even with the two-bladed whop-whop blade we never heard it until it was already overhead ... we could see the gun moving as the pilot shifted his gaze about ... scary.  Small, tiny target, too ...

Has anyone done a two-rotor Cobra?  I just had a vision of two inter-leaving rotors, as if the thing was built by Kaman ...

[jcf]

How about coaxial like the Bell Model 49? Built and tested post-war before Arthur Young, creator of the Bell helicopter, resigned in 1947. He wanted to move on to other things.

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[Gondor]

I can't stand pumpkin pie ... Jumping on the anti-sweetness bandwagon, I like my pumpkins chopped up and boiled.  Mashed or cubed doesn't matter - served with a wee bit of butter and I'm a happy man ...

Helicopter!  When I was in the Nat. Guard, doing exercises on the nearby Army base, a Cobra flew over right at tree-top level ... even with the two-bladed whop-whop blade we never heard it until it was already overhead ... we could see the gun moving as the pilot shifted his gaze about ... scary.  Small, tiny target, too ...

Has anyone done a two-rotor Cobra?  I just had a vision of two inter-leaving rotors, as if the thing was built by Kaman ...

There are 1/72 kits available of both the Husky and the K-Max according to Scalemates.

Gondor