That's pretty interesting. The English approach (or the Japanese, or Russian) seems objectively better to me. I guess for something like "food" it can lead to a

That's pretty interesting. The English approach (or the Japanese, or Russian) seems objectively better to me. I guess for something like "food" it can lead to a mild case of cultural imperialism, but having a picture of the thing is generally better than not having a picture, and AFAIK Wikipedia explicitly makes it easy to share media between the different language wikis.