Food person

The Cod proposes a new word in place of f***ie to describe those with a passion for eating.

Allow me to propose "foodneck" as an alternative. I'm not making a big push, just give it a test drive:

"My sister's staying with us on Friday -- she's a real foodneck -- where should we take her for dinner?"

Give it a try, and let me know how it works out for you.

Foodneck. Food Neck. Foodneck.

A commenter (commentator?) named Hugh responded:

As for "foodneck" , how about foodnik? "foodneck" sounds like a cross between redneck and some sort of clam.

To which the Cod replied:

As for "foodnik," I think it sounds too much like a faux Yiddish insult.

I added:

I too was wondering neck/nik and thinking redneck. Mulling it over. I like that it sounds unusual. But I do want a term I can feel comfortable using to describe myself.

My dining companion suggested "fooder," making an analogy to Star Trek fans. We might call them Trekkies, but apparently they prefer to be called Trekkers--they're on the trek too. I have also considered "foodist," which would be better if it didn't sound so much like nudist. El Fooderino?

You may recall that I earlier floated the term foodinista with reservations expressed that it might sound too feminine. I had in mind the Sandinistas and Zapatistas (both of them dudely -istas as far as I know) more than the fashionistas, which Doug seemed to sense in his comment:

"Foodinista" sounds to me like a term of derision an opponent might use to describe an obese Nicaraguan Marxist.

That's a good one.

So, I'm prepared to use foodneck if others will go along with it but I don't want to be the lonely soul saying "aubergine" in an "eggplant" culture. I don't really think it's very likely that we will invent a word since it almost never works that way, but the power of the internet is potentially magnificent.

(Other terms occur to me: foodophile, foodster. I'm not going to start now with words beginning gastro-, eat-, aliment-, grub-, nosh-, and chow-.)

MORE: Jam Faced doesn't have the answer either.

Foodie. "Oh you're a bit of a foodie are you, ho, ho, ho". I'd love it if that last "ho" was cut off by the sound of one of my Global knives being stuck into speaker's solar plexus. It's like, having made a conscious decision to like my food, instead of pouring pig swill down my gullet like some deranged goose destined for a Frenchman's lunch box, I am somewhere between a vegetarian and someone who is into crystals or, in the minds of most of fellow male Englishman, probably just gay.