You know you're a foodie when...

[Mooshmouse]

When you're struck by a late-night urge to bake and stay up until 2:15 a.m. making cookies. Just because.

[DTBarton]

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

When you know the answer to that question, asked for a new, better boning knife for Christmas, and have been practicing as a winter culinary project.

I'm getting better.

[origamicrane]

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

When you know the answer to that question, asked for a new, better boning knife for Christmas, and have been practicing as a winter culinary project.

I'm getting better.

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well i know how to debone a chicken

[FistFullaRoux]

A story I've told before:

The city was repairing the street in front of my apartment, and had run the big grinder through, which roughens up the surface so the next layer of asphalt will stick.

Whan I saw them lay down the first thin layer, I thought, "crumb coat."

The fact that I could make a connection between asphalt and buttercream pretty much says it all...

[SuzySushi]

A story I've told before:

The city was repairing the street in front of my apartment, and had run the big grinder through, which roughens up the surface so the next layer of asphalt will stick.

Whan I saw them lay down the first thin layer, I thought, "crumb coat."

The fact that I could make a connection between asphalt and buttercream pretty much says it all...

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Hmm, and when I had a mudbath at Calistoga, my first thought was that it was the texture of chocolate-chip cookie dough.

[ladyyoung98]

A story I've told before:

The city was repairing the street in front of my apartment, and had run the big grinder through, which roughens up the surface so the next layer of asphalt will stick.

Whan I saw them lay down the first thin layer, I thought, "crumb coat."

The fact that I could make a connection between asphalt and buttercream pretty much says it all...

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[BonfireCuisine]

My favorite quotes from others on this board that I'd say I can relate to as being a foodie.

1. you cook three course meals when you're drunk.

2. When you're a heterosexual male with unlimited computer access, and you spend more time on food sites than porn sites

3. When you take a culinary book to read in the bathroom because you can't set it down and walk away for 2 minutes (I have food magazines instead of playboy)

4. Your ability to turn out an impressive meal on short notice frightens your Gay friends. (also straight friends for that matter)

5. When you sneak a little red wine and beef stock into the tomato sauce your kid is making (I didn't do it on purpose, the glass tilted, yea tilted)

6. You include your favorite ethnic grocery stores on the grand tour of your city when you have out-of-town guests.

My quotes -

1. Your friends at work tell you that you take food way to seriously

2. You actually have a mandolin and use it

3. You work 12 hours at a stressful desk job and then come home to make food for friends and it's relaxing

4. You live in America and you actually know who Gordon Ramsay is

Jason

[DTBarton]

"so tell me how do you bone a chicken?"

When you know the answer to that question, asked for a new, better boning knife for Christmas, and have been practicing as a winter culinary project.

I'm getting better.

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well i know how to debone a chicken

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You know you're a foodie when you ask questions like:

How come when you take bones out it's deboning, but when you take skin off, it's skinning, not deskinning?

[johnnyd]

You're a foodie if you have a mandoline, a zester, a small blowtorch, and more than 20 cookbooks.  You use these things, but not because you're paid to do so.

You own more than nine different vinegars - right now.

You mark the seasons by the first sighting of: California strawberries, New Zealand lamb, local peaches, cranberries.  Conversely: shad roe, salmon, ama ebi.......

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Susan, this is eeerie! That's me you are talking about! Are you my lost twin?

[Bueno]

You know you're a foodie when you hear the word Michelin and you think "stars" instead of "tires".

[Fugu]

When there is an emphasis on your ingredient's provenance, just like your antiques.

[Lady T]

When you turn your nose up at the produce on sale at Safeway and go to Whole Foods and pay a whole lot more instead, because (a) it's in hugely better condition; (b) it's organic; © it has a new issue of Saveur you absolutely cannot wait more than ten more minutes to read; and (d) you're voting with your pocketbook for all of the above, so that eventually the market will notice and reward people who want to eat wisely and well -- you're a foodie. No mistake. And there is, by damn, absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[MomOfLittleFoodies]

I wasn't aware that foodie = food snob...

You know you're a foodie when you find yourself in an ethnic market, for an ethnicity you're not a member of, trying to find authentic ingredients.

[purplewiz]

You know you're a foodie when you don't let being on a tight budget stop you from eating well. Like many other areas, it's not what you got, it's what you do with it.

Marcia.

[Lilija]

When you've been thinking about Thanksgiving since August.

[HVRobinson]

You know that you're a foodie when you're looking for a recipe for bread and butter jalapeño peppers... just because you want that sweet and hot zest ... for a kick at a holiday table. You know you're a foodie when you throw the cook away from the grill at the company BBQ for murdering the meat. You know you're a foodie when you go to the Asian market and don't know the English name for what you're in need of. You really know you're a foodie when you iPod has a "chopping the vegetables" mix and a "doing the butchering" mix --- right next to the "kneading the dough mix". You know that it's terminal when you have an excellent meal out and you hug the owner of the restaurant for making you so very happy.

hvr

(You get the heebie-jeebies to see Wine Sonoma smiling from the grave when you read a topic that is resurrected after a long pause...)

[Jamie Lee]

You know that you're a foodie when:

You get one of those brown bags that you're supposed to fill with canned goods to donate to those less fortunate and..

"I can't give my best jasmine rice!"

"They'll never appreciate my canned jackfruit!"

"Will they understand these are SAN MARZANO tomatoes???"

"It's not spaghetti, it's bucatini!"

"There IS a difference between Bumble Bee and imported italian tuna!"

So I'm a food snob.

I went to my grocery store and made two bags. I've been homeless, and lived out of my car, and a can opener and a park bench and any can of veggies/meat was a God-send.

Hope my bags make someone happy.

[vogelap]

When getting directions, you insist that people use RESTAURANTS as landmarks. This happened to me at dinner last night -- I was having trouble visualizing the location being described until they said it was "near the old Vinchenzio's location", and I knew exactly where they meant.