Please stop saying foodie and gourmand

[Anonymous]

It is so pretentious and silly.

[Anonymous]

This should be in the Food Forum.

[Anonymous]

Both

[Anonymous]

Agree. I remember someone on DCUM trashing a particular takeout Chinese food place, saying it wasn't good enough for "foodies." Please. It's takeout Chinese, people! Also: "mompreneur." Stop it right now!

[Anonymous]

You're policing language use on an anonymous forum, and you're throwing "pretentious and silly" around?

God, I love me some irony on a rainy night at home.

[Anonymous]

Too many people refer to themselves as "foodies" because they like to eat at restaurants with cloth napkins. That's their sole criterion.

Starting with my neighbors, whose cabinets at home are packed with packaged, processed crap like Nutrigrain bars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many people refer to themselves as "foodies" because they like to eat at restaurants with cloth napkins. That's their sole criterion.

Starting with my neighbors, whose cabinets at home are packed with packaged, processed crap like Nutrigrain bars.

I really wish DCUM had a like button right about now.

[Anonymous]

Thank god you're here, OP! I need someone to supply me with a word (just one, please) to convey "I like food in a way that goes beyond fuel, I cook for fun, I have a decent knowledge base about the history and origins of various foods and ingredients, and I especially enjoy foods that are creatively prepared."

[Anonymous]

Hoity toity foodies. It will be a good future when the minimum wage service workers are well-manner, articulate and overly educated who were taught to be polite and diplomatic.

[Anonymous]

Why do you have to label yourself ANYthing just because you like to eat food beyond Ring Dings and hamburgers and also, you are not in the dark about where it comes from?

[Anonymous]

Gourmand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you have to label yourself ANYthing just because you like to eat food beyond Ring Dings and hamburgers and also, you are not in the dark about where it comes from?

People like to think they have smartened up and are edjumucated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you have to label yourself ANYthing just because you like to eat food beyond Ring Dings and hamburgers and also, you are not in the dark about where it comes from?

So, "foodie" is one label among the 800 or so labels commonly used on this site that is unacceptable. I mean, why say "I'm a SAHM" when I could say "I am a woman who is responsible for the fulltime care of a child who was gestated in my body and who does not require the validation or the monetary compensation of outside employment."

(And no, I've never referred to myself as a "foodie". Because I just know someone is flexing her fingers to type "aw, did the foodie's feelings get hurt?" I just think all this language policing is stupid and petty.)

[Anonymous]

Urrrrrrgh! Now I need to think of another label for myself. Argh! Burp!

[Anonymous]

Why on earth do you care what they call themselves? Or is this miserable weather just getting to you?

But, on a funny note, the first time I met my now SIL, my BIL kept referring to her as a foodie. I had never heard the term before. She is overweight. For the entire visit, I thought he was using the term foodie to say that she ate too much food. I kept thinking "why isn't she yelling at him?"