Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Polls: What Generation Foodie are you?

Smart, who is an oldie but a foodie, commented that he'd like to know whether foodies who read food blogs are necessary the younger ones or are there other older folks like himself who actually have the time (and money) to go around finding great places to eat.

So in this week's polls, we try to see what generation you belong to!

Definition of generations can sometimes get complicated, so I have simplified it to 4 categories:

1. Vintage Foodies Those born before WWII. (<1944) In our context they are now 63 years and above. These are the ones who lived through the tough years of the Japanese occupation and still remember the good old days when eateries like Famous Islamic were still relatively new and did not have any TV to watch when they were kids.

2. Baby Boomers. These are people born after the war (1945 - 1959) Most of these people still remember when Singapore merged with Malaysia and subsequently gained independence. After the war there was a great explosion in the number of babies born. They are currently around 47 to 63 and many at at the top of their careers or just retired. They have lots of money to spend on yummy food!

3. Generation Xers: These are people born between 1960 to 1977. They are the generation born in the time when Singapore was struggling to find its footing. They grew up in the 80s and are deemed the generation with the short attention span. They are the first generation to grow up playing video games and watching MTV. But they still experienced the good old coffee shop before they started turning into food courts.

4. Generation Yers: These are people born from 1978 onwards. They were born using the internet and handphones. Some are young working adults and most are students. They may not even have eaten Hor Fun cooked with Charcoal fire or remember Changi Beach

So which generation foodie are you? Cast your votes!

10 comments:

Cool Insider said...

Gen X same as you dude..... in the land of between the Baby Boomer's crazy work ethic and Gen Y's pursuit of other values in life beyond the 5 Cs.

Jae Hao said...

Gen Y - i am a fan! XD i even linked u


LOL

Tjiana said...

GEN Y!

I don't actually go around trying the food you recommend cos they are all super fattening haha.

but i love reading your blog anyway.

dawna said...

isn't there an inherent biasness in the questions? in that the vintage foodies group are highly unlikely to connect online as compared to each subsequent younger group? haha, but anyway, i voted!

popartgirl

hypertension said...

Maybe you wanna further break down Generation Yer cause too broad le...

ieat said...

Dawna, the poll is not trying to find out how old foodies are but how old the foodies who read the blog are! I refer to my first paragraph.

shadow said...

A foot each in Gen X and Gen Y!
:-)

ahbeR said...

Gen X !!

when bus conductors come punch a hole in your bus tickets

when i took pictures of my first MRT ride .... the entire MRT system costs only $5 Billion

when we only had pagers instead of mobile phones

when our first tv game console was an Atari

when cartoons and toys from Mask were cool

when a bowl of mee siam = $1 (anyone ate 'indian' mee siam b4?? where to find now ah?)

when your school uniform skirt had to be over your knee caps!

when we actually used computers that were 286mhz? 386? 3.5" floppy disk? tat green pixelated monitor? haha

when a sony walkman was cool.... and a discman was even cooler!

when there was a East/West Germany and Russia was USSR and Gorbachev had the map of USSR as a birth mark on his forehead hahaha

when there were no CTE, SLE, TPE, ERP, COE, GST...

when Huang Wen Yong and Xiang Yun were the ones to watch on ch8 tv

when there weren't any of those crappy mad cow, chicken flu, sheep xxx and pig xxx diseases!!!

having said those, i'd acherli prefer to be borned 12 years later

ieat said...

Gen X indeed!!

Indian Mee Siam found here:
http://ieatishootipost.blogspot.com/2007/05/sajis-indian-food-indian-rojak.html

Owen said...

Gen X and proud of it! Although somewhat displaced and caught between nostalgia and renewal, i have never regret living thru and experiencing the changes i have seen.

Only thing i really miss is the old indian man with the sarong riding bicycle and serving steaming hot putu mayam.... been meaning to ask if any of you in this blog has found nice fresh steaming hot putu mayam

kai

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