Koodies: The children of foodies

For better or worse, what we eat as children defines a lot of our diet as adults. It always seems like those who weren’t allowed sugar cereals have a Diet Coke habit that runs to a 12-pack-a-day.

But what about the children of foodies — whom “Supermarket Guru” Phil Lempert has labeled as koodies:

koodie: -noun Slang. A kid keenly interested in food, especially eating, cooking, or watching reruns of Julia Child. A kid who has an ardent or refined interest in food; a mini-gourmet; usually trained by one or both parents to have an unusual, and sometimes fanatic, desire to eat unusual foods. Evolution from the now-defunct word foodie