Tag Implication: yakiimo -> sweet_potato

Implicating yakiimo -> sweet_potato.

Reason: It's all in how it's cooked.

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I think this implication is okay, though. We went with sweet_potato so all yakiimo by definition involves sweet potatos. I suppose a theoretical problem could be if you only see the leaves and not the sweet potato, but then it's only yakiimo with textual evidence...

Not sure where to go on this one.

We should alias yakiimo and yam -> sweet_potato. It's not a large subject, and need not to be distinguish whether they are cooked or not.

I'm more interested in the act of cooking them. Poking a pile of leaves with a stick and all that.

Edit: nevermind, drunk talk.

These pictures are yam, not sweet potato.
post #324676　post #373628　post #599011

So I think yam should not aliased to sweet_potato.

toutetsu said:
These pictures are yam, not sweet potato.
post #324676　post #373628　post #599011

So I think yam should not aliased to sweet_potato.

The decision in reversing the alias (which has to remain in place since many use "yam" to refer to sweet potatoes) is that we would use a separate tag there. Going by the Wikipedia page, I used the genus name to qualify the tag.

Only three images: A B&W image where you can barely tell what it's supposed to be and two where you don't actually see the yam itself, just the result of preparing it as a... goop of some sort. Generally I think people expect to see the raw item when searching a fruit or vegetable tag rather than highly processed versions but that's not set in stone. But either way I'm not going to reverse common American English usage for just that.

jxh2154 said:
you don't actually see the yam itself, just the result of preparing it as a... goop of some sort.

Just for reference, the Japanese call the grated yam 'とろろ (tororo).'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea_opposita#Non-food_uses