Food Idioms

Several words have found themselves used in a number of phrases. We looked at 'horse' last time and this time it's 'food'.

Food chain is first recorded as recently as 1915.

Food poisoning is first described in 1864.

Nobody used a food processor before 1973.

Seafood is not described as such until 1836.

Foodstuff is a term unknown before 1870.

Foodoholic is first used in 1965.This seen as a negative, unlike …..

Foodie, which was used as a synonym for ‘gourmet’ from 1982.

Food stamps, a US scheme to help the more impoverished feed themselves, is first seen in 1962.

Fast food is not seen until 1951. I’ve always thought it something of an oxymoron, as ‘fast’ is also used to mean ‘avoid food’.