By: dblock
i'll take implementable suggestions for foodcandy - or for the platform for that matter - it can be what you want it to be - want to start a social network about food on star trek voyager?
View ArticleBy: Dukebloo
Using the term "foodie" probably turns off quite a bit of people who are really into food (compared to the swarms of status-conscious, zagat-dependent restaurant "locusts"). Friendster for Locusts!
View ArticleBy: madajb
I liked chowhound. Now it's been "yahoo-ized" I don't find it nearly as appealing as it once was.
View ArticleBy: crunchland
Well, I wish you luck, dblock, even though there are several other well-established and prettier sites that do what you're trying to do, but better... (a situation I know all to well myself.)
View ArticleBy: liam
a foodie hang? that's some serious jargon abuse. Yeah. I find it hard to use the term "foodie", but the site self-described as such. So I thought I might as well jargon & on. You know, ironically.
View ArticleBy: Keith Talent
WRT to Egullet, the Vancouver chapter, (since dissolved for lengthy reasons,) bound together a large number of real life friendships, so much so that we're having a bocce tournement in a couple weeks....
View ArticleBy: Greg Nog
a foodie hang? that's some serious jargon abuse. YES. CHRIST. "Foodie" and "metrosexual" may be tied for my least favorite neologism.
View ArticleBy: darksasami
You have no idea how relieved I was to find out that "foodie" wasn't yet another fetish subculture. Well...sort of, anyway.
View ArticleBy: dblock
First, thanks for visiting FC! I've started the site. I will partly and gladly take back my comment about EGullet (I wrote that it's all about restaurants). That's how I always used EGullet though. I...
View ArticleBy: junesix
Agree with rxrfrx. Saying eGullet is about restaurants couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact, eG actually has very little talk of restaurants and is more interested in actual food, cooking, and...
View ArticleBy: rxrfrx
Chowhound brings them all together plus a layer of stupid! More seriously, that business about eG being about restaurants but not people is just ridiculous. eG's strongest features are its...
View ArticleBy: crunchland
Some people see FoodCandy as MySpace meeting EGullet. MySpace is all about people but not all about food. EGullet is all about restaurants but not about people.Chowhound brings them both together.
View ArticleBy: jimmy
what's with the navigation on this? it's completely slow and gives you no indication that it's actually working.
View ArticleBy: junesix
This looked pretty cool until I saw the page title: Friendster for Foodies. That just turned me off right away.
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