Talk:Foodie

Distinguished from gourmet, gastronome, glutton, et al

I just reverted an edit that was an unsourced comment that foodie and gastronome are synonymous except that foodie is a less formal term. The article's sourcing isn't up to Wikipedia standards so I won't resort to that, but the source and the usage of the term does point to some things that foodies do that gastronomes don't. A gastronome pays attention to and loves food, mainly in the consumption. Perhaps the preparation too. The scope of foodies' attention is far broader, including the food industry, food news, food gossip, production, science, etc. One images a foodie being fascinated with how a donut factory machine works, and who owns the factory. A gastronome's interest is the donut itself. I think a comment that draws a distinction and compares the two would be useful, but a comment that just says they are the same word is a little off the mark. Wikidemo 19:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

I removed a similar phrase stating that a "foodie is a pejorative of a glutton," which happened to be uncited. I attempted to find a citation for this claim, failed, and learned a lot about these terms in the process. Foodies, gastronomes, gourmets, gluttons, et al, are each distinct in their own right, albeit frequently confused and sometimes used interchangeably (recently by a self described "outsider," see http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/03/the-moral-crusade-against-foodies/8370/). A person may be correctly described by one or more of these terms, but none are synonymous, and attempting to define a correlation between any pair is simply a vacuous effort. --67.10.156.246 (talk) 18:01, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Coinage of Term

The OED lists two references to the word "foodie" from 1982 that predate the use in the title of the book by Barr & Levy. I am not sure if one could say that the authors of those two pieces coined the term since in both cases they are from articles and probably reflect more general usage. I have not edited the article because I'm not sure how I would change it, but I don't think it is accurate to say that Barr & Levy coined the term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.229.196.239 (talk) 04:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary def.

I went ahead and added the Wiktionary cross-reference, though I must say that I am still not convinced that this entry is proper. Both the encyclopedia and the dictionary reference each other, which doesn't make much sense because you then have a twinned definition when it itself may be wrong.

Depending on where you're at, the term foodie can have a different meaning. Since this is a slang term, why not write an article that is completely neutral, rather than correlating it with gourmet? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.146.144.86 (talk) 15:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

"Haloodie" in the lede

It's not clear that "haloodie" is even notable; as the reference indicates, it was coined by a food festival in 2013. In any case, it certainly doesn't belong in the lede section. --Larry (talk) 02:51, 21 February 2014 (UTC)