“Foodie” is a dumb identifier

We all like to eat food. We all prefer that our food taste good. Not everyone is an adventurous eater, but in my experience picky eaters are the outliers. Calling oneself a “foodie” is therefore a meaningless label. It just means you are in the majority of people that eat food, prefer good food, and are open to eating new things.

I almost always hear this label used as a personality trait. If you call yourself a foodie, you’re forgoing all of these other labels you could use to describe yourself or your interests. Calling oneself a foodie signals to me that you’re a boring person whose most prominent personality trait is enjoying food, something basically everyone does.