1. a non-snobby foodie 2. a person who enjoys dining at restaurants, understands the business as a former server/bus person/back waiter/bartender and can appreciate the stress, the joy, and the satisfaction of servicing the public 3. a person who enjoys cooking for the fun of it - not claiming to be a "foodie" who can only cook based on a recipe from one of their 5000 cookbooks or food magazines - cooks from the heart, not from a book
"I think the steak was a little too medium rare and the potatoes had slighlty too much crunch" said the foodie, as the foodcentric that I am enjoyed the cheeseburger and potato chips.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)