foodies
I’ll admit of the bat, I hate labels. Or people self labeling themselves. Even ones that work. Even when I was doing commercial music for work, I’d always sidestep the answer to “are you a musician?” I’ve never called myself a musician, or an artist or a writer. I don’t know what it is about those names that just turns me off. I think it has to do with the fact that people who do label themselves, really take over the label in a way that makes others who aren’t so annoying look bad for using it. Kind of like how fanatic Christians turn Christianity into a bad word, when really it just means a follower of Christ, right?
But foodies kinda bother me even deeper than that, because everyone eats. We all like food. So to label yourself as a connoisseur of food just sounds so pretentious to me. And foodies always use the word in the worst possible way, like to preface an opinion with “well, I’m a foodie… soo…” as if you should then value it as word of the food gods. Maybe I’m just being cranky here, but I believe in everyone knowing about food. Some people’s food just happens to be a Big Mac and others it’s an artichoke chevre salad a la La Fontaine de Mars. But we all love the shit like breathing, sex and water. (Speaking of, ever read water review sites? Pretty amazing.. what’s a connoisseur of water called?) I have no problem with people being interested in food, and I love a good restaurant review or interesting food blog just like I enjoy a person who makes music. It’s all in the label, man.
Blah, blah, blah. Foodies.. you bother me. Can’t you just be enjoyers of food or something and spare us the painful label? All I hear when I here foodie is “Did I tell you I’m better than you? ‘Cause I am…” Chew on that for some subtle smokey tones.
foodies and yelpers go hand in hand. never have I seen a website so full of idiotic dribble in my entire life. the worst part is that everyone who posts restaurant reviews seem to really believe that they’re so in the know and the provenance of the food they’re eating is soooooo special and no one else could understand unless they were there. shit bitch, it’s food. not every meal is an experience worth sharing. and then those yelp meet and greets? who the fuck came up with that shit? it’s bad enough with one foodie but with the power of the internet, they get to join forces? this isn’t like captain planet. they’re not helping ANYBODY.
one label i don’t mind at all….wino! yup, i’m a wino, i love wine. not in that “smooth undertones of blackberry and baseball mitt” way, but in the “i love me some red wine, as long as it’s not vinegar” kind of way.
To be fair, I think the term “foodie” gets thrown around too easily now. People think that because they eat at a bunch of different restaurants, or they know of this random, good spot they should be called a “foodie.”
But really, a foodie is someone who has a really refined palette, like, just under the palette of a chef. They should be able to pick out different ingredients and flavors included in the dish, as they eat it. Foodies are serious appreciators of food.
The fakers just fakers and don’t want to be called bloggers. They deserve the “nope.”
Really? I didn’t even know that was the real name for a food expert.. that should be the true nope. Wine connoisseurs get sommelier and all food nerds get is foodie? Not very creative.
chef:food::sommelier:wine
food:foodie::wine:winesnob
That’s not right. A chef prepares food, a sommelier doesn’t prepare wine, they just procure and suggest. The word you need there is vintner.
OK.. I figured this out.. what you should have said is:
gourmet:food::sommelier:wine
foodie:food::winesnob:wine
Hah that’s funny–after I typed it I realized the imprecision of my analogy and was mulling it over. But a gourmet isn’t an educated professional who acts as a tourguide through a menu. It may be one that has no parallel, and we’ll have to tolerate the imperfection. Not of foodie/winesnob, which is right on. And how fun it it to dust off the ol’ “::”? Actually it’s a little more traumatizing than fun, flashing back to standardized tests, but I love me an odd punctuation mark.
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