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New Year's Osechi cooking. The potato is the gray one at the back right.

One day, a friend from Africa and I were talking about New Year's food. She said that she had been shocked and surprised when she saw that potatoes were served in the Japanese New Year's feast. "Why ordinary potatoes?", she asked quizzically. "In my home country, we cook a whole goat and eat it!" Then I realized she was referring to taro potatoes which are used in special dishes for the beginning of a new year. They take time to cook but I couldn't think of a good reply because potatoes are still only potatoes no matter how fancily they are prepared. They cannot match a whole goat.