Tagging y/n?

[hilarytamar]

It occurred to me to wonder whether we might want to tag entries with, say, main ingredients. More selfishly, I'd love to have vegetarian/vegan entries tagged (or perhaps put into memories?). Obviously this has the potential to spiral out of control quite quickly as we all invent our own tags, so that would be a strong incentive not to go that route after all. Thoughts?

ETA: How about annotated_em's suggestion below to set up a (semi-fixed) tag list early on, before we get oodles of omnommy posts, covering
• type of food (appetizer, main dish, etc.)
• dietary restrictions (allergens, vegetarian/vegan, kosher/halal, etc.)
• (broad classes of) primary ingredients (meat, fish, pasta, etc.)

Other current suggestions:
• type of cuisine (Italian, French, etc.)
• cooking questions and • requests for recipes
• cooking tips (this one's a current suggestion insofar as it just occurred to me)

Last I checked, polls weren't working terribly well – tho' perhaps this has changed? – so commenting here is still probably the best way to go, y/n? And then at some point we can figure out what people on balance think would be most useful, she says, vaguely.

Comments

[zarhooie]

The big problem I have with that is that some people (myself included) have no idea what constitutes a gluten-free meal. Vegetarian and vegan I think we can handle, as well as chicken, fish, beef, pork and "other" as tags. Past that...

I need to give this some thought.

(On a completely unrelated note, I REALLY need a mod hat icon!)

[hilarytamar]

Um. Yes, absolutely. I apologize. I didn't mean to attempt to usurp mod privileges, and I'll shut up now.

[zarhooie]

Dude, totally ok! Really. I promise. <3 You too can has mod hat! If you want. Or something. God I'm tired.