I just want to eat something that doesn't taste like processed, salted crap.

IS THAT SO WRONG?

They are not better than me, if only because they accept the use of the word "foodie."

What a poorly written, wandering, short and nearly pointless article.

What the hell is with the dumb term 'foodie'? What's wrong with using gourmet? Calling them foodies is like calling a garage a car hole.

Here's the thing: the term foodie is retarded. What does it imply? It implies that you like food. Well congratulations! I like food too. Oh, you like good food? Well, shiat! SO DO I! We're practically brothers, what with that unique pair of traits right there.

Yeah, I buy and prepare all sorts of hoity-toity shiat. I don't use store-bought bread. I prepare exotic ingredients. From time to time, I even do a fairly complex meal. I don't eat in chain restaurants (mostly because I'm surrounded by local restaurants that are vastly superior- and in walking distance).

But I'm not a foodie. I'm not in a club or special community of gastronomes. I eat what I want to eat because I want to eat it and enjoy it.

//Tonight was crab ravioli from the local pasta-maker in a sauce I whipped up quick. We're well past tomato season, so yes, the tomatoes came out of a can.

t3knomanser: Here's the thing: the term foodie is retarded. What does it imply? It implies that you like food. Well congratulations! I like food too. Oh, you like good food? Well, shiat! SO DO I! We're practically brothers, what with that unique pair of traits right there.

Yeah, I buy and prepare all sorts of hoity-toity shiat. I don't use store-bought bread. I prepare exotic ingredients. From time to time, I even do a fairly complex meal. I don't eat in chain restaurants (mostly because I'm surrounded by local restaurants that are vastly superior- and in walking distance).

But I'm not a foodie. I'm not in a club or special community of gastronomes. I eat what I want to eat because I want to eat it and enjoy it.

//Tonight was crab ravioli from the local pasta-maker in a sauce I whipped up quick. We're well past tomato season, so yes, the tomatoes came out of a can.

You're a foodie.

It's just a label, and it applies to you.

AverageAmericanGuy: It's just a label, and it applies to you.

It's a farking retarded label, and the moron who invented it should be force fed until we can use his liver for fois gras.

AverageAmericanGuy: t3knomanser: Here's the thing: the term foodie is retarded. What does it imply? It implies that you like food. Well congratulations! I like food too. Oh, you like good food? Well, shiat! SO DO I! We're practically brothers, what with that unique pair of traits right there.

Yeah, I buy and prepare all sorts of hoity-toity shiat. I don't use store-bought bread. I prepare exotic ingredients. From time to time, I even do a fairly complex meal. I don't eat in chain restaurants (mostly because I'm surrounded by local restaurants that are vastly superior- and in walking distance).

But I'm not a foodie. I'm not in a club or special community of gastronomes. I eat what I want to eat because I want to eat it and enjoy it.

//Tonight was crab ravioli from the local pasta-maker in a sauce I whipped up quick. We're well past tomato season, so yes, the tomatoes came out of a can.

You're a foodie.

It's just a label, and it applies to you.

This.

Tonight, I had a recently slaughtered suckling pig, who was fed all organic feed, and nothing but fresh acorns the last three weeks of his life.
I brought in a withered 80 year old Sicilian to butcher Pompadario(that's what we named him) after we said a blessing to Gaia, to thank her for the gift.

The butter that we lightly sauteed Pompadario in was made from my wife's breast milk.

Pompadario was partnered with a lovely Jasmine rice that we get direct from India, I know a guy. EIP if you're interested. Of course, the rice was cooked in Fiji water-based broth. We also had a seasonal medley of organic vegetables grown in our zero carbon footprint greenhouse.

And I resent that I am thought of as snotty.

A slam to the clam?

I thought 'foodie' used to be a gentle euphemism for the grotesquely obese. Maybe I'm making that one up.

Marcus Aurelius: Well you didn't invite me, so there must be SOMETHING wrong with you.

We're going for pizza (Neopolitan, obviously) cooked on the smoldering rim of Mt. Vesuvius this Friday. If you bring the Boones Farm, you're welcome to come with.

zato_ichi: Marcus Aurelius: Well you didn't invite me, so there must be SOMETHING wrong with you.

We're going for pizza (Neopolitan, obviously) cooked on the smoldering rim of Mt. Vesuvius this Friday. If you bring the Boones Farm, you're welcome to come with.

I refuse to attend if you insist on using that rolling, stainless-steel pizza cutter you bought at WalMart. If it's not a Damascus-steel mezzaluna then you're just ruining the whole thing.

Savoir-Faire: What a poorly written, wandering, short and nearly pointless article.

Yes, and the headline question is nonsensical - and never really addressed in the article. This is what happens when you have an Internet full of newspapers looking for content.

doglover: The word is gourmet. You are a gourmet.

I think gourmet implies someone with a discerning palate who appreciates haute cuisine and more expensive meals. Foodie is someone who enjoys food, no matter if it's caviar or French fires. Guy Fieri is a dick foodie and Julia Child is a gourmet.

SapperInTexas: I refuse to attend if you insist on using that rolling, stainless-steel pizza cutter you bought at WalMart. If it's not a Damascus-steel mezzaluna then you're just ruining the whole thing.

Well, we were planning to use the Aztec dagger that one of my ancestors got as a souvenir while prospecting a few years back.

PC LOAD LETTER: I just made my own Italian meal with Murray's chicken, fresh basil, oregano and thyme from my Aero Garden, fresh Oregano and mushrooms from the market, fresh pasta from the pasta store, and imported Italian tomatoes and imported Parmesian cheese that I grated myself. I had a glass of Pellegrino to go with it. I don't care what you think right now.

While I can appreciate the pride in making something yourself from the most basic ingredients, and hell, that's not limited to just food...., chances are I enjoy the 15 minute frozen Italian shiat I get as much as I would enjoy yours.

Not Bertoli. Bertoli sucks.

whatshisname: I think gourmet implies someone with a discerning palate who appreciates haute cuisine and more expensive meals. Foodie is someone who enjoys food, no matter if it's caviar or French fires. Guy Fieri is a dick foodie and Julia Child is a gourmet.

So wouldn't a foodie be anyone who isn't anorexic?

t3knomanser: Here's the thing: the term foodie is retarded. What does it imply? It implies that you like food. Well congratulations! I like food too. Oh, you like good food? Well, shiat! SO DO I! We're practically brothers, what with that unique pair of traits right there.

Americans are taught from an early age to be suspect of anything which is "elitist" or anything which impinges on their notion of "freedom". In parts of the country, the act of going to a white tablecloth restaurant (unless it was for an anniversary or other special occasion) would be grounds for shunning from a person's social group, and eating shiatty fast food or shiatty pretend food at places like Olive Garden is looked upon as the height of cultural advancement.

doglover: You are a gourmet.

I think gourmet implies a level of ambition that I thoroughly lack. I just like to eat well made and very rich foods.

A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure in food. The word has different connotations from the similar word gourmet, which emphasises an individual with a highly refined discerning palate

If you want to say foodie is the wrong word then please at least use the correct term...

/stolen from wikipedia
//citation needed

I screw alot. ALOT. So I guess I'm a pussy

I prefer the term fatty to Foodie. Spellcheck recognizes Foodie.

I made a pumpkin bake out of cottage cheese, oatmeal, eggs, pumpkin and some spices.

Made it up myself.

Foodie?

SapperInTexas: zato_ichi: Marcus Aurelius: Well you didn't invite me, so there must be SOMETHING wrong with you.

We're going for pizza (Neopolitan, obviously) cooked on the smoldering rim of Mt. Vesuvius this Friday. If you bring the Boones Farm, you're welcome to come with.

I refuse to attend if you insist on using that rolling, stainless-steel pizza cutter you bought at WalMart. If it's not a Damascus-steel mezzaluna then you're just ruining the whole thing.

Damascus steel is a crock. It's only famous because it's the crap the crusaders had to deal with when they went a conquering.

My interest in food is utilitarian and goes like this:

When not hungry, I don't think about it at all. When I'm hungry, I think, 'what can I eat that is reasonably healthy and requires minimal preparation that will make me not hungry anymore?'

Then I eat. Then I don't think about it until I'm hungry again. Lengthy discussions about food and its preparation bore the crap out of me. Sorry foodies, don't care that much about your sun-dried tomatoes and flim-flammed artichoke slices sprinkled with rhinoceros penis shavings.

Simon and Minty approve

/lightly embarrass your organic Dutch organic butter
//When I'm creating a dish, I always ask my favorite architect, Angus Paxton-McLeish, to build me a model.
///Dinner is a middle manager from Leicester sucking up to Japanese clients. Supper is an Italian language student sunning himself on a lovely June evening in Hyde Park, stretched out on one of those picnic rugs.

gadian: Huh. Hang on, let me pop a hungry man into the microwave and then I'll be back to read this delightful thread. You're not a gourmand, a gourmet, or a foodie. You have a lot of time on your hands and very little to fill it with.

/joking about the hungry man

Aren't those like 1600 calories?

Gwyrddu: What the hell is with the dumb term 'foodie'? What's wrong with using gourmet? Calling them foodies is like calling a garage a car hole.

I like 'gourmand'. 'Gourmet' always implied preparation afaic, but most 'foodies' are merely consuming.

People waste their lives on a lot of things, but I never knew debating what/how to eat was one of them.

/unless we're talking drunken debates on Taco Bell vs. McDonalds

//Taco Bell always wins

Cyno01: dustlesswalnut: Gwyrddu: What the hell is with the dumb term 'foodie'? What's wrong with using gourmet? Calling them foodies is like calling a garage a car hole.

I like 'gourmand'. 'Gourmet' always implied preparation afaic, but most 'foodies' are merely consuming.

Gourmand is not synonymous with gourmet, iirc its french for glutton, it does not have positive connotations.

Well aren't most of the "foodies" also fat?

farkit there are way too many people these days trying to be experts on something. fark off no one cares except other arseholes with mental problems like you.

Ok, so I've read a few of Bourdain's books, and have watched quite a bit of his show, and I really don't see where this tard get's off saying he "glorifies the killing of animals." He loves meat, but he never made a spectacle of the animals dying, and typically goes out of his way to state his appreciation for anything and anyone that puts in any amount of sacrifice. In the one show he did where he actually had to kill the pig to adhere to local customs, he actually felt sick, and repulsed by what he did. It seems like she just needed an antagonist for her worthless article and chose Tony to be her fall guy.

And before someone says "but killing the animal on TV was done for spectacle," that's crap. From what I can tell he always paints the whole picture of whatever area/culture he's experiencing, and cutting out that part would have been disingenuous to his viewers.


/derail over, now back to foodie bashing.

Cyno01: dustlesswalnut: Gwyrddu: What the hell is with the dumb term 'foodie'? What's wrong with using gourmet? Calling them foodies is like calling a garage a car hole.

I like 'gourmand'. 'Gourmet' always implied preparation afaic, but most 'foodies' are merely consuming.

Gourmand is not synonymous with gourmet, iirc its french for glutton, it does not have positive connotations.

My thesaurus disagrees with you. And most foodies are rather gluttonous, no? I think Jesus would disagree with how much time and effort they spent thinking about food.

I didn't say it was a positive term (foodie sure as hell isn't), just that I feel its more applicable.

I am not a foodie, I'm just a glutton who's grown tired of fast food.

Foodie == SWPL gourmet poser

Short answer: No. Long answer: Nooooooooooooooo.

gadian: Huh. Hang on, let me pop a hungry man into the microwave and then I'll be back to read this delightful thread. You're not a gourmand, a gourmet, or a foodie. You have a lot of time on your hands and very little to fill it with.

/joking about the hungry man

That must be one BIG microwave that you can fit a man in it. Why do you starve him before cooking?

/came for the Giada De "I'll bake your cock" pic, leaving disappointed.

frestcrallen: My interest in food is utilitarian and goes like this:

When not hungry, I don't think about it at all. When I'm hungry, I think, 'what can I eat that is reasonably healthy and requires minimal preparation that will make me not hungry anymore?'

Then I eat. Then I don't think about it until I'm hungry again. Lengthy discussions about food and its preparation bore the crap out of me. Sorry foodies, don't care that much about your sun-dried tomatoes and flim-flammed artichoke slices sprinkled with rhinoceros penis shavings.

That's nice. And I'm sure I care just as much about whatever it is you do for fun. Why did you feel the need to share this?

21-37-42: hat must be one BIG microwave that you can fit a man in it. Why do you starve him before cooking?

Probably because he prefers lean cuts of meat.