I Am Tired Of The Word: Foodie

Posted on July 14th, 2009 6:13pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Foodie People, Murmur, Silly Reasons to Celebrate

I am really sick of the word foodie. Yes, it was a fun word for a while but it has just worn out its welcome. What shall we replace it with? Fooderatti? Prolly taken. Eathead? Too 70s. Come on, there has to be an acronym we can come up with. We could change the foodie world. Yikes, see what I mean?

26 comments

  1. I inspired a thread! Weeeeeeee!!

    I hate the word too but until some clever soul comes up with another one (calling Bonathan!) I used it.

    @ 7:05 pm on July 14, 2009

  2. in civilized times (pre inter net), i considered the term gourmand appropriate.

    don’t know whether you want a cutsie phrase or an accurate noun.

    love your work.

    mike

    @ 7:09 pm on July 14, 2009

  3. I also hate the expression, “My bad.”

    Please!!!! Someone come up with a word to replace “foodie.” It’s goofy.

    @ 7:20 pm on July 14, 2009

  4. Once again I hear ya Uncle Nancy! I’ve hated that word for YEARS!!!! I like “Diners”. You know, the people that just REALLY enjoy the dining experience and food in general. The kind of person who enjoys 5 star as much as roadside diner. I’m over food snobs anyway.

    @ 7:25 pm on July 14, 2009

  5. Hey, what is the word “foodie” in French? Or Italian? Or Swahili? Or Canadian?

    @ 7:34 pm on July 14, 2009

  6. Okay, here’s my suggestion: Go to your favorite online thesaurus and key in “food”. See what comes up add an “ite”, “ie”, “ine”, etc. Surely we can beat “foodie”!

    @ 8:29 pm on July 14, 2009

  7. Massive douchebags?

    I jest. Eatanistas

    @ 9:03 pm on July 14, 2009

  8. Eatanistas is good, very Law & Order-esque.
    TLS,I will ask my Swahili friends in Kenya. Beautiful language.

    @ 9:08 pm on July 14, 2009

  9. Gastrognome.

    @ 9:20 pm on July 14, 2009

  10. fashioneatsas?

    @ 9:59 pm on July 14, 2009

  11. Fooderazzi.

    People who like food: People.
    People who don’t like food: Models.

    How about Mealy-mouths? Hungry, hungry Hippos?

    @ 10:15 pm on July 14, 2009

  12. My suggestion: Sustenancys. I would like a raise now, Nancy.
    I like Gastrognome, but only as a derogatory term for those like the critic in Ratatouille.

    @ 10:43 pm on July 14, 2009

  13. Hungerbusters?

    @ 8:40 am on July 15, 2009

  14. I am tired of improper English: “Prolly”

    @ 8:58 am on July 15, 2009

  15. Gourmand= too old fashioned, and snooty, sounds like you have foie gras for breakfast and halibut cheeks for lunch.

    Gastrognome= looks like the new spokesmodel for dining destinations on Travelocity

    How about Palatier? (Too French and fussy)

    Epicurious George?

    Gastrovore?

    @ 9:30 am on July 15, 2009

  16. Can we also throw “organic food” on this word burning pyre? Saying this is an “organic” food is like saying something is a useful tool or calling someone a murderous killer.

    I like gastronome as the best suggestion so far and I think gourmand was originally meant as a pejorative, as in calling someone a “glutton”. Someone could also be a gourmet. Going along with the latin theme, we could say someone is a cibophile or borrow from another movement and say epicurean.

    @ 10:09 am on July 15, 2009

  17. Wow, I love the thought of a bunch of little Gastrognomes running around and singing happy food songs like Alvin and the Chipmunks on their way to eat at a new restaurant. We could give them cutsie names and one could have a dark personality (that would be the hard one to please who always makes comments about the food and restaurants that the rest of us are too embarrased to say out loud). Come on Nancy lets have a contest to create and name the Gastrognomes.

    @ 10:36 am on July 15, 2009

  18. organic actually has a (moderately) useful legal definition, although that’s becoming less so every day.

    I still like Foodmonaut.

    @ 10:47 am on July 15, 2009

  19. why can’t it be as simple as food lover? ahh that would be too ez..

    @ 11:03 am on July 15, 2009

  20. There you are, Gastronome! My suggestion was a nod to you.

    Actually, I don’t think lovers of fine food and wine should have their own nomenclature. The Food Network will just bastard*ze it and the next thing you’ll know, Paula Deen and Rachel Ray will start gussying up their mindless chatter with OUR words.

    @ 11:41 am on July 15, 2009

  21. I’m stilll working on getting my “culinary point of view” straghtened out.

    @ 11:59 am on July 15, 2009

  22. What a great idea!! While we’re at it, let’s come up with something new for blog (it sounds so blah), Anyhoo, and Yow.Za.

    :)

    @ 12:19 pm on July 15, 2009

  23. Besides replacing the annoying “foodie” how about changing “ressie” too? There’s something about when people tell me they are going to make a ressie instead of a reservation that such makes me roll my eyes.

    @ 2:39 pm on July 15, 2009

  24. My suggestion: Dallasbites.

    @ 7:45 pm on July 15, 2009

  25. How about “Flava Flaves” Nancy? I think that works!

    @ 6:45 pm on July 16, 2009

  26. Need I remind the marquee of this blog is “SideDish: The Daily Destination for Dallas Foodies”

    @ 12:31 pm on July 29, 2009