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. #conversation source