Navaho Gunleg

Don’t you hate it when you go and eat somewhere and the grub’s awful? Not because of the cook, but because of the ingredients? Or, are you (or do you know) a picky eater? Doesn’t it suck that it seems hard to find new menu’s to eat?

That’s what we were discussing when we had some dinner with some friends the other day; talking about the fact that I’m a picky eater, well, that each of us have such different preferences, but that it’s hard to think of new menus because of this. And eating the same shit every time can get boring. And I also know that ‘picky eaters‘ often get the question if I they got a list of things they like for a quick reference.

So the idea spawned: some location on the internet to share your food preferences with an optional to ‘match’ these with somebody else’s.. Useful when you are meeting them for dinner: you excange IDs and you can check the site and you’re all set for a happy dinner without people irritated because they don’t like the food and/or no alternatives have been arranged for them.

After some initial talks, some initial ‘brewing’, the day after I quickly cooked something up (I already had a domain registered doing nothing for years which is just great for the job).

Only this weekend I got around to finetune it some more and lo and behold, a new site was born at brain-tag.net:

At the moment, it’s in beta — texts are incomplete and/or contain typos — but heck, use is restricted to friends only — and only these friends can invite other friends — but if you are a developer like me you know it’s fun to create and brag about stuff.

So, if you are a friend and if you’re interested in a beta-test account, let me know. (And yeh, it’s multi-lingual: Dutch and English.)

Update 2006-10-17: Meanwhile, the site has changed a bit: 356 foodstuffs as I write this, and more functionality has been added. Stuff like, for instance, support for allergies — that could be the difference between life or death! — and mucho speed- and interface-enhancements. The site might be giving away some accounts in the future, so check it out some time, maybe you’re lucky.