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]

*puts on mod hat*

As I mentioned above, I'm reluctant to label things past vegetarian and vegan because a lot of people don't know what counts as, say, gluten-free. I do think that tagging main dish, appetizer, snack, dessert would work well.

*takes off mod hat and brushes glitter off shoulders*

[annotated_em]

*grin* Fair enough.

[zarhooie]

That being said, if YOU want to tag things as gluten-free or whatever, please feel free to do so!

[annotated_em]

But of course!

...that means I should probably post something nommable!

[zarhooie]

It's generally recommended! You're perfectly welcome to wait until you have something that's REALLY yummy though. :P