Clean eating = pretentious?

BlinkingLight1 · June 2012

If someone says they eat clean, do you assume they think they're better than you?

fuzzylogic · June 2012

That's a lot to think from that sort of comment. No, I don't assume they think they are better than me. While I would love to eat clean all the time, it hasn't always been practical for me, and I do my best.

Now, if they get all uppity if I bring in some Hamburger Helper and start chastising me for eating that, then yeah, I would be put off.

gingerfeathers · June 2012

No, unless they say something negative about me or my diet.

drillerswife · June 2012

It depends on how they say it and it what context.

+PuppyWuppy+ · June 2012

I have no idea what that means (clean eating).

OSUWifey09 · June 2012

drillerswife:
It depends on how they say it and it what context.

Agreed. I wouldn't automatically assume that, but I think you could probably tell from tone of voice and attitude if someone said it to be pretentious.

+PuppyWuppy+ · June 2012

It is probably perceived as pretentious because it is a "rich" person thing. That certainly does not mean it is pretentious.

BoyMom21 · June 2012

No, not at all. Unless they start attempting to push it on me, I really don't care.

llizzyb · June 2012

Well, most people who "eat clean" do it because they do think it's a better way of eating. S no, I don't consider them pretentious, but I do get self conscious of their judgment. Obviously they made that choice for themselves because they believe it to be the best choice, so they probably think it's best for others, too.

5thOfJuly · June 2012

I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

+buttercup+ · June 2012

I agree it depends on the context but in normal conversation I don't think it's any different than someone saying they are vegetarian.

fuzzylogic · June 2012

5thOfJuly:
I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

Your great grandmother sounds like a badass.

WendyToo · June 2012

I find the wording a little pretentious (implying not following those particular dietary rules is dirty/gross/etc), but my impression would be purely dependent on delivery since I'm unlikely to encounter anyone who coined the term.

5thOfJuly · June 2012

fuzzylogic:

5thOfJuly:
I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

Your great grandmother sounds like a badass.

Dude! She was. She died at 94---just dropped dead. What was she doing at the time? Digging up the potatoes she had planted.

BlinkingLight1 · June 2012

5thOfJuly:
fuzzylogic:

5thOfJuly:
I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

Your great grandmother sounds like a badass.

Dude! She was. She died at 94---just dropped dead. What was she doing at the time? Digging up the potatoes she had planted.

That is awesome. I want to be her.

ETA: That sounded really morbid, of course I'm sorry she died, but it sounded like she lived a really healthy, long life!

5thOfJuly · June 2012

BlinkingLight1:
5thOfJuly:
fuzzylogic:

5thOfJuly:
I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

Your great grandmother sounds like a badass.

Dude! She was. She died at 94---just dropped dead. What was she doing at the time? Digging up the potatoes she had planted.

That is awesome. I want to be her.

ETA: That sounded really morbid, of course I'm sorry she died, but it sounded like she lived a really healthy, long life!

Ha! Not morbid at all. May we all be that healthy at 94.

pineneedles · June 2012

5thOfJuly:
BlinkingLight1:
5thOfJuly:
fuzzylogic:

5thOfJuly:
I don't assume that at all. In fact, I look up to them since I can't seem to cut my Diet Coke habit. As a matter of course, my great grandmother (and probably many of yours) was a clean eater, right down to raising and grinding her own wheat for flour, slaughtering her own chickens, etc. She was about the farthest thing from a snob than I can think of

Your great grandmother sounds like a badass.

Dude! She was. She died at 94---just dropped dead. What was she doing at the time? Digging up the potatoes she had planted.

That is awesome. I want to be her.

ETA: That sounded really morbid, of course I'm sorry she died, but it sounded like she lived a really healthy, long life!

Ha! Not morbid at all. May we all be that healthy at 94.

Hear hear, sister.

cc605 · June 2012

so you DID judge that coke zero I drank!! YOU CLEAN EATING BIDDY!!

Yeah, I mean if someone eats clean their poo probably swirls out of their butt in the ideal ice cream machine way, but at the end of the day (or morning? noon? after Mexican?), we all take a dump.

I'll do me, clean eater does clean eater.

oklagirl · June 2012

I'll just be honest an say as a 85-90% of the time "clean" eater, I just the *** out of other people's food choices. So, maybe I'm a bit pretentious/smug about it.

SunnyDaze31 · June 2012

Somewhat, yes, though it depends on how they say it. In my opinion, saying that someone eats "clean" implies that other people eat "dirty." Plus "clean" means different things to different people. I eat lots of meat, fruits, veggies, cheese, nuts, etc. and try to minimize the amount of processed food I eat, but I don't care about eating organic or grass-fed meat and I still like my sweets. Does that make me a clean or a dirty eater?

drillerswife · June 2012

SunnyDaze31:
Somewhat, yes, though it depends on how they say it. In my opinion, saying that someone eats "clean" implies that other people eat "dirty." Plus "clean" means different things to different people. I eat lots of meat, fruits, veggies, cheese, nuts, etc. and try to minimize the amount of processed food I eat, but I don't care about eating organic or grass-fed meat and I still like my sweets. Does that make me a clean or a dirty eater?

This made me LOL. I'd say you're a fairly clean eater Stick out tongue

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