[WikiEN-l] Water chestnuts

[Eugene van der Pijll]

Gregory Kohs schreef:
> Oldak, I don't mean to be snippy, but, I don't really care what Google
> results on that search say, if (according to Wikipedia)...
> 
> Water caltrop is:
> "sold as an occasional streetside snack in the south of" China.
> 
> Eleocharis dulcis is:
> "The small, rounded corms <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corm> have a crispy
> white flesh and can be eaten raw, slightly boiled, grilled, pickled, or
> tinned <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning>. They are a popular ingredient
> in Western-style Chinese dishes. In China, they are most often eaten raw,
> sometimes sweetened. They can also be ground into a
> flour<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour>which is used especially to
> make fried cakes called
> *matigao* (??????; m??tí g??o). They are unusual among vegetables for remaining
> crisp even after being cooked or canned."
> 
> Which one do you think 98% of Wikipedia users are actually searching for?
> How many of them might be confused by their "eenie meenie mynie moe" on the
> disambiguation page.

I'm not an expert on these plants; never having met them before; but the
number of interwiki links on both pages seem to confirm that the most
well known, and therefore the most common of these two, even in Western
Europe, would be Trapa natans.

But a disambiguation page is probably best.

Eugene