The tag implication #50650 mashed_potatoes -> potato has been rejected.

Reason: Mashed potatoes are a type of cooked potato.

EDIT: The tag implication mashed_potatoes -> potato (forum #365579) has been rejected by @slyroon.

quyksilver said:
Reason: Mashed potatoes are a type of cooked potato.

True, but do we really want to imply the foods to the ingredient (same for topic #38564)?
Like do we really want to imply fries, potato_chips, hash_brown, tater_tots, etc. to potato?
What about orange_juice imply orange then?

I believe practically potato should refer to the actual spuds (🥔) while the rest should stay separated.

I don't see the utility in doing this; are there really situations when someone's looking for a post that has mashed potatoes in it but couldn't find it because they were using the potato tag? or someone who wants to blacklist potatoes but gets upset when they see a post with mashed potatoes in?

we generally don't imply food products to their base ingredients, so bread dosn't imply wheat or flour, orange_juice dosn't imply orange, and bacon doesn't imply pig.

That's fair, I figured it was on the edge anyways since it's...recognisably potato-y. Maybe directly implicating food would be better?

It is still a potato... but it doesn't really look like one anymore. We do have a dairy_products tag that has implications but that seems like a weird exception.

The other suggestion topic #38564 (baked_potato -> potato) seems a little more reasonable because it's still recognisably a potato - just simply baking it didn't turn it into something else.

post #3395598 post #2116035

faucet said:
It is still a potato... but it doesn't really look like one anymore. We do have a dairy_products tag that has implications but that seems like a weird exception.

The other suggestion topic #38564 (baked_potato -> potato) seems a little more reasonable because it's still recognisably a potato - just simply baking it didn't turn it into something else.

post #3395598 post #2116035

Yeah, this basically. It's hard to tell the difference between say, mashed potatoes, oatmeal, mashed rice, and cream of wheat. It could be any starchy food. You tag based on context, like if I see a steak, it's obviously potatoes. *note: Cultural bias ;)

The tag implication mashed_potatoes -> potato (forum #365579) has been rejected by @slyroon.