Difference Between A Food Lover And A Food Addict

I recently bought a saxaphone-it is my new hobby. I am still looking for a teacher. I named her Ella (the sax not the teacher). Anyway, I was talking to the petite sales girl about why I decided to start playing. I was thinking about some activities that I could do to replace the actual vibrational sensation and pleasure that I get from eating-now that I’m not doing much of that anymore and playing a wind instrument came to mind. With my love of jazz-the sax seemed the logical choice.

She said that she also loved food and although you couldn’t tell by looking at her she loved so many different things about food. It really got me thinking. What is the difference between a food lover or foodie and a food addict?

Well-I think that a foodie really loves the food itself while a food addict loves the way that the food makes her feel. When I think about most of the foods that I crave-it is the feeling that goes with eating the food that I think most about. Not that I dont’ like the taste but the taste is only valued as it pairs with the feeling. Thus I am an addict and she a foodie. Seemed like a big revelation to me.