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A dish tagged #vegan and #beef would imply vegan meat version

• msh 4y ago
  Or a vegan dish that is also good if you add meat.
  • xtiansimon 4y ago
    That would only exist in an alternate universe. One universe of vegan dishes and non-vegan dishes. Another universe where the tag is generated by meat chefs for vegans— this vegan dish would be great if only you added some meat…or something like that.
    • msh 4y ago
      I like to go to the restaurant chain called Wagamama. They have vegan dishes where you can optionally add different kinds of meat.
      • xtiansimon 4y ago
        > "I like to go to the restaurant chain called Wagamama." The Wagamama-universe. haha. I don't know this chain, but your example poses an interesting problem. Is a Caesar salad, add chicken, a new dish? I would argue it's not a new recipe, but a manifestation of how the restaurant caters to patrons' desire. Or, a manifestation of how salads can be minimally altered with grilled chicken to turn a side dish into a main dish for lunch. So maybe there are better, less confusing, tags for restaurants who permit these alterations? `add-meat-optional`. And that's where I find this to be an interesting example. So now... You're in your sandbox classifying "important things", you might think to add an `add-meat` tag (or whatever). But what if you're just wasting time with your phone standing in a queue just adding bookmarks in Firefox (does the phone app have tags--i don't know)? So now...you might not recall the rules of your ontology. Instead you're drawn into the _alternate universe_ created by the website's design, or it's branding. Branding intended to tweak your perception and you start adding strange tag combinations, without thinking how this will goof up your search algorithm. Tag salad--haha.