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I came across this line in a game recently:

> Aが焼き芋を勧めてきたけれど、焼いただけの芋をああもよく喜んで食べられるね

I've been struggling to decipher the second part of the sentence. From another
line showing the other character's perspective:

> Bに焼き芋を勧めたら、断られてしもたわ。焦げてたからあかんかったんかなぁ……

I know that it was possibly the sweet potato being burnt that was the problem,
and based on that my best guess is that the first line means something like:

> "A offered me a baked potato, but, well, a potato that has been _baked only_
> you could enjoy yourself eating somehow [except that one was _burnt_ , and
> so I couldn't eat it]".

What makes me unsure about it is that I can't really find anything in the
original sentence that would point out how the potato being edible was not the
case (note how much of my translation goes in the brackets, and the "well" I
added in) — I don't see any contrastive elements besides that けど, which feels
to me rather "weak" and not clear in what it's referring to, and I believe
that if it weren't for the second line I wouldn't be able to figure out the
first one at all.  
  
The ああも is also a little confusing to me, since I haven't really encountered
it (as in ああ+も) much before. Googling around, I found
[some](https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%81%82%E3%82%82)
[sentences](https://emuzu-2.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2020/10/post-9eb07f.html)
phrased like こうもああも+potential form, mirroring the one at hand save for the
こうも. However I failed to find any explanation of this structure, which makes
me assume it should just be understood literally ("you can do X like this and
you can do it like that"). I'd like to know whether my understanding is
correct and whether that kind of phrasing has any relation to the one used in
the sentence in question.  
  
Is my interpretation of the sentence correct? If so, what am I missing that
would make its meaning clear? And if not, what does it actually mean?
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grammar translation
Meaning of a sentence with ああも+potential
First, 焦げてた does mean _burnt_ but I guess here it just means _burnt but
edible_. Also, you may be aware by the picture but 焼き芋 is typically baked
_sweet_ potato not what is called _baked potato_ in English.

The pattern is よく＋potential rather than ああも+potential. See the question below.

  * [Meaning of よく住める](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/93955/45489)

ああも is [ああ](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/en/%E3%81%82%E3%81%82/#je-1)+も
and means あのように= _like that_. Here it modifies 喜んで or 喜んで食べられる. Thus the
sentence means

> How can one(you) eat sweet potatoes that are just baked with pleasure like
> that?

implying the speaker does not like baked sweet potatoes in general.

* * *

The following means the same and may be easier to parse

> よく焼いただけの芋をああも喜んで食べられるね
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