Repurposes "Empty Plate" tag to cover other food container

BUR #39230 has been rejected.

create alias empty_plate -> empty_food_container
create alias empty_bowl -> empty_food_container

There's a tag called empty plate which seems to be used for a plate that were either emptied of its serving or is empty because there is no food to be serve. I've noticed that there are several posts under this tag with a bowl instead which fulfils the similar theme mentioned above, which I assumed was tagged because there is no equivalent tag for it.

So, I guess the tag should be repurposed to cover any kind of emptied food container in general. I don't know if an empty cup or other type of container would have its own tag or not or should have its own tag like empty bottle.

I don't mind having a single tag for the concept but I do think an empty bowl or an empty plate is conceptually quite different from i.e. empty tupperware.

I definitely wouldn't call dishes "food containers." A google image search of food container would agree, given the results don't include actual dishes either.

Empty food container just sounds like a stupid name for it to me. I'd also probably rather empty plate and empty bowl be separate tags personally but am not opposed to them being together as long as the name isn't weird.

Empty plate is most definitely undertagged though. Might take a while but should I try populate empty plate (as well as empty bowl & empty bottle as I come across them) to see if the numbers sway things?

Got distracted by other stuff but did 36~ full pages (200 per page) of plate -rating:e -empty_plate -banned_artist (from the back until 196 right now) and now empty plate is at 495 and empty bowl is at 32.

If I did the rest then there'd be an estimated 1,600 tagcount for empty plate and 168 for empty bowl. Empty bowl obviously being under-represnted due to my search so there'd very likely be more than that (I predict double).

Do with that information what you will. And if anyone does continue on from the plates then dmail me where you left off so I know where I need to start from otherwise I'll be really confused (providing I find motivation to even continue).

The bulk update request #39230 (forum #344180) has been rejected by @TKX.

Maybe empty_dish would be a suitable all encompassing tag name?