{"id":277803,"date":"2010-02-04T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:30:21","slug":"is-there-a-better-word-than-%e2%80%9cfoodie%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277803","title":{"rendered":"Is there a better word than \u201cfoodie?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2352\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 250px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2352\" title=\"foodie\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/foodie.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Amazon.com\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Amazon.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>In the comments section of a recent post, readers and I got into our mutual distaste for the word &#8220;foodie.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That brought to mind a column I wrote about a year ago that was pegged to the inclusion of the word &#8220;locavore&#8221; in the Oxford English Dictionary. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I gently suggested we could do away with the word &#8220;foodie&#8221; to make room for it. But what is a better word?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time to Retire This Distasteful Appellation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(originally published January 2009)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the word &#8220;locavore&#8221; has entered the lexicon. It has even, praise arugula, won the title of New Oxford American Dictionary&#8217;s Word of the Year for 2007.<\/p>\n<p>That means we have one too many barfatronic food neologisms in common parlance. Which should we lose? Not &#8220;barfatronic&#8221; &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t specifically relate to comestibles and is far too useful.<\/p>\n<p>I propose instead that we lose the heinously overused and patently annoying word &#8220;foodie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else out there think that Ms. Foodie has overstayed her welcome? Her cheer has &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Amazon.com In the comments section of a recent post, readers and I got into our mutual distaste for the word &#8220;foodie.&#8221; That brought to mind a column I wrote about a year ago that was pegged to the inclusion of the word &#8220;locavore&#8221; in the Oxford English Dictionary. I gently suggested we could do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}