[michaelochurch]

Do people actually use "foodie" unironically? I thought that was something people invented to stereotype suburbanites who'd caught on to "gourmet" meaning absolutely nothing; I didn't know until now that people actually called themselves "foodies". Wow, it's a weird world out there.

[dasmoth]

It's certainly pretty common in the UK. Seems much less linguistically dubious than "gastropub".

(Why do "suburbanites" seem to get so much stick nowadays?)

[moheeb]

Well you have to have some way to differentiate them from the people that don't like food.

[mkehrt]

Yes, definitely, people use it unironically.