OT: Re: George Lakoff (and others) on "foodie"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Why do you say "crackpot"?

JL


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:

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> > Poole too prefers "foodist", which he says was "used from the late
> > 19th century for hucksters selling fad diets (which is quite apt)." He
> > sardonically describes a foodist as one who "operates under the
> > prejudices of a governing ideology, viewing the whole world through
> > the grease-smeared lenses of a militant eater."
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> > --bgz
> I use "Foodist" for my own personal crackpot religious movement, which
> observes any holiday with food traditions associated with it, as
> Hanukah, St. Lucia's Day, Epiphany-Mardi Gras (king cake season!),
> Martinmas, St. Catherine's Day, Narwuz, etc.
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