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I just went with the name that I use for most places where I need to log in, and it's coincidental that it's food-related. I've actually considered a name change to something more in line with my food passions. But then I'd be changing my name on a regular basis. One month I'd be CheeseEater and the next it would be CookieBaker and then I'd be BreadAHolic and then it would be SmokedFood and then it would be TamaleMama...

sigh. I think I'll just stick with what I've got.

I hope there are some good stories to come, though.

Online user names are nothing more than the 'handles' we used to create back in the CB Radio days! Remember 'Breaker breaker 19 this is the Bandit'!

So now we're in cyberspace instead of radio wave space. I for one like to gage my online names with the nature of the site.

So for all the food sites I'm typically Ribster (extracted from the fact that I can't get enough of them) :0)

It's not food related, I have 11 grandchildren, it's what they call me. Althought most have shortened it to just Nan.
And now I'm off to peel apples for Sunday dinner dessert : )

@betteirene Say your name and listen to how poetic it sounds. Not boring and it is YOU just like @dbcurrie and @gingercookiewithlime. My given name was butchered as a kid since it wasn't familiar at the time. (The most common mistake was saying it/ a long 'a'). I could have chosen janabanana which is a name a lot of people call me, but I came to realize my given name was kind of lovely and I use it more often than not as a screen name. I distinguish it with wg-that is the letters of the small town I live it. You mother gave it a lot of thought.

the name "pooch" is part of my last name -- but i also love pooches.
my dad was called pooch, my brother is called pooch and i always thought it was appropriate for me - given my love for our little four legged friends. that said, i guess pooch really isn't a foodie name .... though i do make homemade dogfood.... whenever i see your name@betteirene - always think it says "better-irene"! that's a plus!!!

Mine isn't food related either. Joy was a camp nickname from back in the day that managed to stick just long enough to be what came to mind when I ended up getting various internet logins/screen names.

Monkey is the husband-elect's nickname for me, but it always seems taken. So I went w/BananaMonkey.

I don't have strong feelings about bananas either way

eggyzhe is....a combo of an old e-nickname, zhe, from an art account actually...eggy was attached on by me with my adoration for 'eggy in a basket'....and the fact I can be a little eggy in the head sometimes...

I love caramel. lol

Poor Old Mama is how Ernest Hemingway refers to his wife. Since I have 3 children of my own and 39 extra-dorm mother and BigMan (self-explanatory) refers to me as Mama--here I am. And as for the name's relation to food, I tend to have some serious mishaps in my "serious" culinary adventures and my family will always say, "Oh, Poor Old Mama". By the way, I am not all that old.

I love all things food-related, thus the "gourmet" aspect, and I AM a "gal" -- however, I did have to change from gourmetgal to THE gourmet gal due to not remembering my password to get in after my computer went down.

Mine isn't food related, its alcohol related. I just couldn't think of anything food related that I liked or didn't think was stupid. I'm actually not a big fan of the name rumanddiet, I just really wanted to sign up quickly so I could start chatting and commenting with you guys!

ed started calling me dearrie during our first week of dating. i once asked if he called all his girlfriends the same so he wouldn't forget anyone's name and he just smiled and said no dear, only you. after all these years i still don't believe him. lol..

@betteirene - Thank you for mentioning my name with the others - I feel so famous! Your name is very pretty and it's nice that you've used your own name rather than making one up.

I came up with yayfood because I love, love, love food and I say "yay!" way too often, especially after enjoying the first bite of something.

I'm not a sailor, nor have I ever been in the navy. I got the nickname in college for my surly demeanor and it just stuck, though the only place I'm surly anymore is on the line at work.

I don't have a clever name. I just use my initials.
(I'm sure y'all knew that already.)

I am a Montreal Canadiens hockey fan and at the arena the guys who sell beer in the stands say it in french then english over and over and over....

so...
my last name is Eng. In my family we love making puns with our name. (did you know we have our own country? Eng-land! get it? har har har...) My siblings and I each have a favorite Eng pun. I also happen to LOVE eggs in almost any form. so... engmcmuffin became my favorite of those puns and it was just perfect for using at Serious Eats.

I didn't want to use my given name so I said, what do I do? I ride/train horses and I cook like fiend, so there you go. That's who I am.

Waaaay back in the day, I started entering chat rooms as TippyTurtle some 20 or so years ago. Back then most chat rooms had Avatars, mine was of a stock dog. A Psychologist friend of mine asked why I used the name TippyTurtle and yet had a dog AV? She said you ought to change it to PavlovsDog, it was taken and so I ended up with Pavlov_Dog (no spaces were allowed thus the underscore). I liked the name and it stuck.

I use it now, or at least some form of it in damned near everything I do computer related. I ocassionally play a game called Golden Tee which u can find at bars and restaurants.... my screen name is PAV.

@BiereBeer.... GO HABS!

I'm actually cringing while I write this, but... it's a handle I've been obsessively using everywhere since I began playing World of Warcraft in 2004.

*listens to the mad stampede towards Google*

"korovka" means "little cow" in russian, and its also the name of a fudge candy. i thought it appropriate b/c (a) i like how it sounds (b) i'm russian and (c) i like to eat (i assume cows like to eat too)

Mines just a play on words.
It popped into my head when I was registering, I use it everywhere now.

But sometimes I wonder if people think I'm British.

One of the worst cooking mistakes I ever made had to do with donuts. I accidentally swapped the salt for the sugar in my donut recipe and thus I ended up with salty donuts. The situation was mildly depressing at first. But oh how I laughed when I took my botched donuts to school and surreptitiously left them in the teacher's lounge. Ahhh, memories.

And my little sister used to think bagels were salty donuts since they have the same shape; kids, LOL.

I'm a sailor, and usually hungry. Now that I think of it, not at all clever either...

Just wanted to add that, YES, I do drool when I hear the dinner bell!

boring: just the old first and middle name

p=Pretty boring on my part--but easy to remember--I only post at one other site, and wanted something easy for me to remember--I already have too many complicated user names and passwords for shopping online to keep track of. That said, I do love the neat names many of you have chosen. Picques my curiosity and it's funny how now although I don't know any of you personally, when I see a comment by many of you, I can often anticipate your response or position.

I assume that if anyone pays attention to the name when I post, they think that sar_t is short for Sarah or something. Since that's not my name, that's my excuse for not commenting/posting very often.

Actually, when I first created my account, I didn't realize I was going to become an SE addict, so I went with an abbreviated version of my normal handle, sharyna_t. Now I kind of regret not going with that.

yep, you guessed it, my name is kathy and I live in.......

@cucumber: oh my I would try this application! thanks!

I belong to a mushroom group here in CT. I've learned a lot about the various types of fungi and can identify a number of edibles.

Naturally, I'm into the choice edible varieties and my fave is known by several different names.

Hen of the Woods, Maitake, or scientifically - Grifola frondosa.

You could look it up.
;-)

They're very tasty, meaty and have excellent texture and are delicious used in a wide variety of ways.

sometimes i can just taste random flavors of things i've eaten in the past.. like i'll be sitting at work and i'll suddenly taste parsley or peanut butter...once i taste it.. i crave it.. hence flavorcravings

When I was little my dad's best friend, Ralphie, was our default "uncle." Every Christmas and birthday he gave us picture books (usually Chris Van Allsburg) inscribed with our nicknames that he had made up. My older brother was Dickie Dickins, my older sister, Little Miss Dickens and me, the chunky monkey baby was dubbed Porky Dickens.

When I decided I wanted to start a blog as a creative outlet/ place to gush about food, on a whim "porky dickens" was the first name I tried. It was available, so now it's here to stay. I like it because it's silly, it's nostalgic and it's food related.

I'm can ALWAYS eat and i adore alliteratives...Oh, and I'm a chick :)

I grew up in the south and then moved to the midwest for college. When chatting with other transplanted southerners the subject of how we could never find Brunswick stew at northern/midwestern bbq joints always came up. Upon meeting people for the second time I was often greeted with, "Oooh, you're the girl who knows about Brunswick stew..."

Mine is a nickname I got when I was 18 and working at a café. I'm rather slight, and the owner, who knows I'm Italian, started calling me "piccola," which is the feminine form of "little." I worked there about a year, and the nickname stuck.

(Once, when I couldn't reach something off the shelves, a colleague said, "You have such a big personality, I forget you're so small." Best compliment ever, though I'm not sure it was meant as such.)

Baconpants was already taken! And I have never seen a baconpants comment, so boo on whoever that is. But um, "marchpane," which is another way of saying marzipan, is a tip towards The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.

I just chose my name today.The reason I chose it is because I am a huge Good Eats and Alton Brown fan. Not to get too Star Wars...but he is like my Yoda.

It is an homage to one of my cats. No, I am not the queen of bleu cheese!
Though I do love all kinds of cheese.

Well, my name is Christopher and I live in Burlington, Vermont, hence, toferburl. It's not particularly exciting, but it has worked for a few years. I may change it here though, I would like to add some pizazz to my persona and then post more often. Stay tuned folks!

I christened myself "chiffonade" way back in the mid-90's in the days of yahoo chat. How do you pick a name? I define myself by the fact that I cook. Given I really identify with my name, it's my name on nearly every site I visit. When I joined Facebook, I had to include "chiffonade" as my middle name or 90% of my online community friends wouldn't have known how to find me.

I'm "therealchiffonade" because someone came to SE and posted "as" me. Luckily, the staff at SE quickly contacted me to confirm it was an impostor, I joined the site as "therealchiffonade" and stayed.

It's not the most witty/clever name on here by any means... but mine is wine-related (and by the way, wine counts as food!); I admit that I'm a bit of a "wine geek" (studying to be a winemaker, in fact), and I've been especially fascinated for quite some time by what is happening on the wine-producing "scene" in South Africa. In South Africa, the Chenin Blanc grape (and by extension, the wines made from this grape) is often called "Steen".

It's a short name, easy to remember, and references my love for wine (and I knew that quite a few people here on SE would "get" the wine reference)... so it became my name here on SE. (Although I could easily have gone with "LovesEveryTypeOfWinterSquash" or "GiveMeAllOfYourHoneycrispApplesRIGHTNOW"... but those definitely lack poetry as names!)

When my oldest daughter was in High School her two best friends had Moms who were blonde and small like me and they used to call us the "Small Blonde Moms". Those were good times with great memories so I am proud to be "Smallblondemom".

Because that's what I do.

@livefreeordine--I have a house in NH too but I always thought it was "slip, freeze and die!"

@capcooks ...That January I lived in Philadelphia and was 10 days over my due date with my second child. I had never seen so much snow. Luckily, the cheesesteak place reopened right before I had to go to the hospital...I miss all the good Phila food.

Y'all have made me laugh so hard through this great thread!!!!! I feel close to each of you. Simply using my initials and birth month and date help to get me where I need to go in my "old" age. BABY BOOMERS ROCK!!!!!!!

Great thread - missed it on the 18th, so I'm glad it turned up in "recently commented on"

@toferburl: Hi there. I live in Essex.

my name comes from a river in Vermont named the Lemonfair. No one knows how it got its name, but I prefer one of the possibilities, that it comes from "les monts verts," since we're the Green Mountain state. So this is my little way of saying I'm a Vermonter.