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The Spaniards thought truffles were aphrodisiacs, and they considered sweet potatoes, the batatas of the Antilles, a superior truffle. The word batata never spread much on the American mainland, where sweet potatoes came to be called camotes, the name for the vegetable in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. Today in many parts of Spanish-speaking America camote is a metaphor used for being in love.