re: How pretentious is the word "foodie"?

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It just means you enjoy food, you like cooking, learning and sharing information about the art of dining. It's in no way pretentious.

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This! Perfect. And I don't see how this can be a bad thing.
My friends and I could just as easily enjoy talking about and learning about fried chicken, fried fish, or Commanders lunch specials, etc.

I generally roll my eyes when someone calls themselves a "foodie"

although I have been called a "foodie" numerous times by other people

1 word that I have never been able to not sound pretentious is "palate"

I don't know how to discuss one's "palate" without sounding like a pretentious douche

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I made up the specific complaint, I was trying to make the point that self identified foodies always seem to be the first ones to point out the negatives about the experience. Like if everyone had razor sharp senses like theirs we'd all see the deficiency. Foodie = amateur critic that no one wants to hear from.

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I was reading a book last week about class and the author referenced a really good article from a few years back that very succinctly summed up the psychology behind the "foodie" persona that some people specifically try to project.

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Foodism has taken on the sociological characteristics of what used to be known—in the days of the rising postwar middle class, when Mortimer Adler was peddling the Great Books and Leonard Bernstein was on television—as culture. It is costly. It requires knowledge and connoisseurship, which are themselves costly to develop. It is a badge of membership in the higher classes, an ideal example of what Thorstein Veblen, the great social critic of the Gilded Age, called conspicuous consumption. It is a vehicle of status aspiration and competition, an ever-present occasion for snobbery, one-upmanship and social aggression. (My farmers’ market has bigger, better, fresher tomatoes than yours.) Nobody cares if you know about Mozart or Leonardo anymore, but you had better be able to discuss the difference between ganache and couverture.”

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William Deresiewicz, “A Matter of Taste?” New York Times, October 26, 2012

I don't like any words that have been invented since I've been alive that end in the letters "ie". Selfie and foodie being two of the woist

I just don't see any reason why anyone would ever need to use the term. And the only people I come across who do are annoying as hell.

Yeah, I'm passionate about food. But so is everyone else I know. And sometimes you're going to eat totally unspectacular maintenance food. It's kind of like maintenance sex.

Yes!

I'm debating adding Bebe Gourmet.

Here is what your kid will eat. The true baby food (puree) phase is pretty quick, maybe 3 months or so. So just forget that.

Once they can eat solid food you will make a steady stream of noodles with butter, rice with beans, and maybe egg toast. Sure you'll try and cook something foodie and crafty that you read in a book, but they wont eat it and youll start to doubt your abilities to parent.

Double post

Yeah, you're probably right but I have no clue about how to feed a kid other than giving them a little bit of what I have. So, why not get a couple books to give me some ideas? Can't hurt. I'm sure I'll use them a few times and that's it but it's a decent gift. I feel I have to put extra shite on there since I don't have tons of gender specific stuff that people like to get.

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Here is what your kid will eat. The true baby food (puree) phase is pretty quick, maybe 3 months or so. So just forget that.

Once they can eat solid food you will make a steady stream of noodles with butter, rice with beans, and maybe egg toast. Sure you'll try and cook something foodie and crafty that you read in a book, but they wont eat it and youll start to doubt your abilities to parent.

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So true of many toddlers. You think that since they eat the baby food pureed veggies and meats that they will continue down that road. Not likely and trying to force feed a 2 year old foods he doesn't want to eat is not optimal. It's not like you can tell them to go bed without eating. My nephew is 2 and very tall for his age. 98th percentile. He's grows in height faster than he can gain the weight to go with it and he's very active, not hyper, but just plays hard, runs hard and rides that strange balance bike with no pedals faster than the speed of light. He'll eat a banana and some other fruits and those squirty applesauce things, along with yogurt. He will not touch chicken, beef, fish in any shape or form. Eats a little bacon and hot dogs. Loves cheese, mac and cheese, pancakes, biscuits, scrambled eggs, rice and French toast. He'd rather have a bag of Skinny Pop than just about anything else except for sweets. He doesn't turn down a mini milkshake. He loves ice cream and milk, so the two together are a dream team to him. He feeds foods he doesn't like to the dog. He does use a napkin, though.

Hopefully, his palate will develop further and whatever textural issues he may have will go away over time.