We tend to favor English for general objects. However, if there's something specifically Japanese about it then we'd tend to go with Japanese. So, anyone more familiar with senbei know if it's distinct in any meaningful way from a rice cracker?
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Well, senbei are a pretty iconic Japanese foodstuff, and they don't have a direct analogue in the Western world that I've seen.
From what I see looking at the few rice_cracker-tagged images, they're all senbei.
I'd suggest not doing the alias, but simply editing the tags from rice_cracker to senbei_(food).
What about the type of cracker I have eaten a couple of times? Thick, dry, puffy but not as soft as it looks... Something like in the pic linked:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshclark/4024945413/
That is what I would have intuitively called "rice cracker" had someone asked me to describe it. But I am no native English speaker.
If you call it "rice cake"...
Thanks. Wikipedia seems to have them as "puffed rice cakes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_rice_cakes
So it is unlikely anyone would tag them, if pictured, with rice_cracker?
sgcdonmai said: I'd suggest not doing the alias, but simply editing the tags from rice_cracker to senbei_(food).
Went with this, though we may need to alias it eventually anyway.
Katajanmarja said: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshclark/4024945413/
Ah those were the things I was thinking of. And I think rice_cake is better for them, yes.
Could we move:
senbei -> senbei_(avocadochaya)
senbei_(food) -> senbei
Reason: The food is guaranteed to always have more posts than the artist and is more general. It should take priority.
Another artist, senbei_(roof-lock), also has the qualifier.
Moved:
senbei -> senbei_(avocadochaya)
Aliased:
senbei_(food) -> senbei