Baraka_Guru

I agree with you genuinegirly. I see a foodie as someone who loves food generally. More specifically, this may mean they like good variety and good quality.

To use a sports parallel, it's like calling someone a sports fan. A foodie is a food fan, not a hooligan.

I'm a foodie.

I'd also like to point out the difference between elitism and elite. Elitism is a idea of an elite controlling or governing a group or society. Elite is merely a status considered among the best of a group.

For example, that tiny pizza place that uses canned sauce and canned mushrooms, etc., isn't going to make the same kind of pizza as that five-star Italian place down the street. It's not necessarily that they can't; it's that they aren't really aiming for that. They're not aiming to make the best pizza. They're aiming for other things, like high-volume sales, low prices, free delivery, etc. That Italian place hires trained chefs who might have attended school and most likely have a ton of experience working with fresh and high-quality ingredients.

Both pizza probably taste good, but if I had my choice, I'd probably pay more for the Italian place. The pizza there is likely going to taste better, and it will have different texture, etc., because of the fresh ingredients.

This thread will, I think, benefit from clarifying what it meant by the language used here.

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