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[RedRose]

Teachers,

I watched a show just now, something I don't get from it. here it is.

The couple are both big on food, one day they have a fight, and they quarrel badly, the wife calls the husband Stupid Foodie, and the husband calls the wife Food S-lut.

That's confusing. what do they mean?

Thanks

[CP]

It must have been a situation comedy.

Calling someone a foodie is a slangy way of labeling them according to their passion. I've been known to call one person who is an avid cyclinst a bikie, for example.

Well, if someone calls me a stupid foodie, how do I top that? I might be a foodie, but you're a food junkie / a food slave / a food fanatic / a food s l u t! (Play canned laughter while she hits me in the face with a pumpkin pie. I love pumpkin pie.)
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[RedRose]

Turns out it's slang, no wonder I couldn't find it in my dictionary. Now I got it. a foodie is someone who is too much into food, it may be derogatory or not, but Food sl-ut sounds worse than foodie

Thanks CP.