I Must Be Getting Old (III)

My daughter asked me during dinner today if I know the meaning of the word bigback.

“What?” I asked. “Bigback,” she said again. I asked her to spell it out. Still didn’t ring a bell.

“It’s a term for someone who likes food,” she said. “Although it can be derogatory, depending on the tone.”

“I thought that’s ‘foodie’?” I asked.

“No one uses that term anymore,” she nonchalantly replied.

What do you mean no ones uses that anymore?! The world still uses it, the internet has hashtags using that, and I still hate that term because I don’t think foodie is a precise term because if you like something or good at something, you add ‘-er’ at the end, not ‘-ie’, e.g. footballer, singer, painter or cooker. You don’t say “I am a cookie because I like to cook.” So ‘foodie’ is wrong.

But ‘bigback’ is even worse. How can it make sense? Big butt might make more sense since people who likes to eat, has big butt normally. Apparently, after I googled, it does has connotation with the back or buttocks. Now I have to go and tell my daughter to stop using the word.

Still, I can’t imagine a term that was coined when I was still starting in my career, is now considered as an outdated term. RIP foodie, I never liked you anyway.

Thank you for reading.