I was still offended personally. I love to bash foodies as I know the term plus white people.
I am a “foodie” in that I love cooking, love food and have made my career as a food scientist. I do agree that there is a certain subset of affluent people who only enjoy “the best” of everything and only the best. Generally though, I find that most self described " foodies" want to explore, eat tripe and ,other offal find new flavors, get a sous vide contraption, embrace other cultures daily food. It is cross cultural for me.
How do you feel about someone ordering a glass of milk in a bar?
From Stuff White people Like Website:
#1 Coffee
#5 Farmer’s Markets
#6 Organic Food
#13 Tea
#23 Microbreweries
#24 Wine
#36 Breakfast Places
#42 Sushi
#45 Asian Fusion Food
#48 Whole Foods and Grocery Co-ops
#54 Kitchen Gadgets
#63 Expensive Sandwiches
#90 Dinner Parties
#119 Sea Salt
#132 Picking Their Own Fruit
And of course we all know that Stuffwhtepeoplelik.com is the absolue authorit on all things white people. 
In my experience the Asian’s have been ‘foodies’, for ages and ages before some white guy coined the phrase. They just don’t self identify as such.
But they definitely perfected it, before we ever took it up. Just ask a Singaporean what they think of Indonesian food, or a Malay what they think of the food in Hong Kong. That picky, fussy, foodie, annoying friend of yours, will suddenly seem a lot more reasonable!
It can’t be a good sign that people are now happily describing themselves with a term bragging that they enjoy the consumption and ingestion of food.
Why?
I’m confused too. Maybe RickJay thinks Foodies are synonymous with the folks who like to hang out at Golden Corral and stuff their gullets full of crap food?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fat “foodie”.
$8.99 a jar? Where are you finding a bargain like that??
I’m a foodie with low standards. I’m Chinese though and so are all my foodie friends. Then again, pretty much all my friends are asian (sorry, I DON’T have a black friend)
Word. And thank you. Some of these posts have me going :dubious:
I’m a foodie because I never would have thought to put chocolate and basil together, but it is delicious and I want to shake the hand of the guy who came up with that. I also have a great appreciation for whole foods cooking, not because I want to impress anyone, but because I think it’s healthier, makes it easier to maintain a good weight, and tastes better.
I’m not a foodie because I’m rich. I’m a foodie. I’m most definitely not rich. And actually, being a foodie has helped immensely in this regard, too – in addition to being healthier and tasting better, cooking is a lot cheaper than buying and nuking processed foods.
I miss having someone else cook for me – too broke to eat out, and I’m a decent but not-awesome cook – but this doesn’t somehow make me appreciate food and flavor less.
A lot of Koreans like to think of themselves as “foodies,” but personally I think most Korean so-called foodies care more about the ambiance and presentation of food than how it actually tastes. Koreans are incredibly sensitive to trends, and a few foodie bloggers can make or break the reputation of a restaurant. I’ve been to a few of the foodie-approved restaurants in Seoul and quite honestly most of them are overpriced and not very good. A lot of these trendy restaurants serve foreign food and I wonder if it’s just that most Koreans don’t know what the food is supposed to taste like.
It’s definitely improved over the years though. The first time I moved here (1995) we couldn’t even get a decent pizza.