Picky Grouchy Non-Cook
Personalities Related and Relevant to the Non-Cook
Personalities Related and Relevant to the Non-Cook
The Food Grouch
The Food Grouch is a food related contrarian. She doesn’t like how everything is all food food food. He thinks it’s stupid how everything is all eating eating eating. The Food Grouch thinks people should be grateful that they are not hungry and for goodness sakes leave it at that. The Food Grouch really can’t stand all this fetishizing, precious stuff around food. Maybe the Food Grouch has a point. But why does she have to be so grouchy about it? In general, the Food Grouch combines elements of the traditionalist, the skeptic, the closed minded, and the judgmental person. What the Food Grouch does is to diminish, marginalize, shut out, have no time for, and generally poo poo various foods, types of food, or ways of eating. Different Food Grouches have different attitudes and approaches and different bones to pick. The Food Grouch can be unpredictable, inconsistent, contradictory, and extremely specific in his grouchiness. Often the Food Grouch will get very excited about judging a particular person’s interaction with or ideas about food. Watch out, for example, if you are the son or daughter -in-law of a food grouch.
Sort of like the “inner child,” a Food Grouch can be said to live within each and every one of us. The aggressiveness, strength, and prevalence of the Food Grouch within vary widely. It’s a spectrum. For normally un-food grouchy, live and let live, open-minded types of people, the Food Grouch within is very mild and asserts itself only to express a food related pet peeve every now and then, as in: It’s so stupid to drink skim milk --what’s the point –you may as well drink blue water. When the Food Grouch within makes up a large part of the individual’s personality, monopolizes much of the individual’s thoughts, or grouches up in other people’s faces on a regular basis, that individual can be considered a Class A Food Grouch or a Major Food Grouch. If the Food Grouch has a whole fully developed laundry list of all the ways people are about food that she thinks are silly or alarmist but she never utters a word of her opinion to anyone else, only does the eye roll when she thinks no one is looking, she should be thought of as an Undercover Food Grouch. Or in certain cases, a Passive Aggressive Food Grouch. Numerous other sub types of the food Grouch can be identified. But it’s nicer not to point too many fingers. |
For more on a different kind of grouchiness,
click on the picture above for The Family Grouch Factor an exploration of the attitudes on food grouchiness of my family. It's in video! |