foodie call

English

Etymology

Blend of foodie +‎ booty call.

Noun

foodie call (plural foodie calls)

  1. The act of going on a date to obtain a free meal, without any intention to become romantically involved with the person who pays the bill.
    • 2021, Yvonne Orji, Bamboozled By Jesus: How God Tricked Me into the Life of My Dreams‎[1], Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      So for your sake, God'll start shutting down every Tinder date, every booty call, even every foodie call.
    • 2023, Justin K. Mogilski, The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships‎[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
      A study on foodie calls found that 33% of women had engaged in a foodie call, and some women engaged in them frequently or very frequently (Collisson et al., 2020).
    • 2025 June 16, Marissa Matozzo, “From booty call to ‘foodie call’ — free dinner scammers flood dating apps as wallets tighten”, in New York Post‎[3]:
      With sky-high rents and an endless lineup of buzzy eateries, NYC could be seen as a foodie call free-for-all.
    • 2025 June 21, James Evenden, “Woman slammed for labeling man in her phone as ‘free food’ as diner finds ‘awful’ new way to score cheap dinner”, in The U.S. Sun‎[4]:
      A second video showed the exact same experience, with a young girl getting ready for her second foodie call of the week.
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