Milton Hershey, O.F (Original Foodie)

“Hershey chose his rural location, for example, less from a desire to ensure his factory workers had access to healthy, rural air, than for strategic gain—deep in dairy-farming land to ensure a cheap supply of milk, but close enough to major cities (Philadelphia and New York) to allow cost-efficient distribution.” (from Edible Geography)

(One Man’s Vision:  Hershey, A Model Town available online in pdf, btw)

Patrick Bateman, O.F. (Original Foodie)

“Our pasta this evening is squid ravioli in a lemon grass broth with goat cheese profiteroles, and I also have an arugula Caesar salad. For entrees this evening, I have swordfish meatloaf with onion marmalade, rare roasted partridge breast in raspberry coulis with a sorrel timbale…”

Adolf Frederick, O.F. (Original Foodie)

Thank you, Wikipedia:

Adolf Frederick, king of Sweden, died of digestion problems on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk.^[37] He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death.”^[38]

To be fair, he was known as a really nice dude and great dad.  However, it was the foodie in him that got him.  Poor guy.

Marie Antoinette, O.F. (Original Foodie)

The eventually headless queen was most likely a foodie, all things considered.  Although I’m sure most royalty can be classified as foodies (some could just be, you know, gluttonous).  However, M.A. was really quite the locavore through her now-tourist-destination hamlet – an entirely hidden haven where the queen could pretend to be a peasant, milking cows and gathering eggs. 

And let’s not forget, “Let them eat cake!” Not unlike “let them eat organic!”