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[quote=Anonymous]You are talking about two different things.

I know lots of people who are into food as a hobby. My DH is one. He likes cooking and eating out, likes trying new things, and views food as an essential part of travel. But he isn’t a food snob. He would make fun if someone for liking blander food. He’s from the Midwest and a lot of his family has more simple interest in food than he does, and he’s respectful of that. He doesn’t consider his interest in food a status symbol.

But we do know food snobs who do consider eating “good food” to be a status symbol, who do look firm on people who haven’t been to as many restaurants or who don’t eat food that is as exotic or expensive as they do. I think they are like this because it’s an easy way to convey status while masking it as “being a foodie.” It’s really about using their money to eat at expensive places with hard-to-get reservations, and then posting about it on social media to communicate to people that they have access to exclusive, luxury things, but under the guise of “we just really love food.”

We used to hang out with people in the second group thinking they were like us, but then quickly discovered the food wasn’t really the point. There will always be people who just want to convey status through a hobby. The photography enthusiast who rarely takes photos snd has no interest in seeing that new photography exhibit, but brags about his new and ver expensive camera. The neighbor who “loves design!” but the hires a designer to do 99% of it and passes the choices off as her own while name dropping as many high end stores as she can.

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