Should we say epicurean or has a love of gastronomy? I say foodie when referring to people who love food. Good food. It doesn't matter where it is found or what it costs although there are those who also love the experience of fine dining and eating things the bourgeois like myself would cringe at. Either way I don't think it has a negative connotation. My DH is a foodie and I like him a lot.

Beware of posters who like the word "argue."

If you consider yourself a "foodie" then it means whatever you think it means, whether other people like it or not.

You can't consider yourself a foodie unless you have eaten fugu and lived to tell the tale

You can't consider yourself a foodie unless you have eaten fugu and lived to tell the tale

Or say fugu when drunk.

food·ie
ˈfo͞odē/Submit
nouninformal
1.
a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet.
synonyms: gourmet, epicure, gastronome, gourmand More

Adrienne, I am amused by your comment about people with "inferior palates". My stepmother calls them "broken palates". She'll say to me and my brother, "Where did you two get your broken palates?!"

I enjoy hearing about and seeing pics of meals which people mention in their trip reports, but I just seem to grab a meal wherever I happen to be when it is mealtime. If the food is delicious, that is a bonus, but when I am hungry or tired, generally will eat almost anything.