Koodie or Kidicurean

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"Koodie" is a child with good taste in food selection, and Phil Lempert, "the "Supermarket Guru", hopes the term will catch on. I don't think it will - it's too close in pronunciation and even spelling to the dreaded childhood "cooties". It also happens to be the brand name of a lice shampoo. Do we really have to have a special word for kids with good taste in food selection? If we do, why not one that doesn't evoke childhood memories of "cooties" and lice? I'd recommend Kidoisseur, perhaps, or kidnoscente, or kidmet (connoisseur, cognoscente, gourmet) much sooner than the lamentable "koodie". I'd even accept kidicurean (epicurean). In fact, I kind of like "kidicurean" - it rolls nicely off the tongue, doesn't have any negative associations with it, was never used as a childhood insult, isn't the brand name of any product, nor is it the name of a band in this or any other country, the name of a radio program, or in use in any way. It is a word that is available and immediately recognizable.

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". - Phil Lempert