# Food Network Drinking Games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116 "2010-12-06T04:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/1 "2010-12-06T04:44:51Z")
**Guy’s Big Bite:** Take a drink whenever Guy says “Bad Boy(s)” **Giada At Home:** Take a drink whenever Giada exaggerates Italian words (“Free-TA-TA!”) Others? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/2 "2010-12-06T04:49:20Z")
… every time Sandra Lee makes a cocktail. … Paula Deen uses butter. … Rachael Ray is perky. … Guy Fieri says “money”. … the Neelys need to get a hotel room. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/3 "2010-12-06T04:51:37Z")
For all the shows, drink anytime someone says, “How (x) is that?” ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/4 "2010-12-06T05:51:24Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > … Rachael Ray is perky. Warning don’t do this. It will result in alcohol poisoning. RR is always perky. No human can drink for 30 minutes non-stop and expect to live. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/5 "2010-12-06T05:55:00Z")
Whenever Ina mentions that Jeffrey is on his way home… ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/6 "2010-12-06T05:56:23Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Warning don’t do this. It will result in alcohol poisoning. > RR is always perky. No human can drink for 30 minutes non-stop and expect to live. When the alternative is watching Rachel Ray sober for 30 minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/7 "2010-12-06T07:56:18Z")
Whenever Alton Brown utters the words “connective tissue” . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/8 "2010-12-06T11:47:12Z")
… when Rachael Ray says “EVOO”. … twice if she then goes on to explain the acronym. … **big** second drink if she’s already explained the acronym earlier in the episode. … chug if Sandra Lee actually uses the color-coordinated KitchenAid stand mixer collecting dust in the kitchen. I was going to add something about drinking for each cutesy nickname for a relative of hers if she’s hosting a party for one of them, but that’d kill you. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/9 "2010-12-06T12:40:58Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > Whenever Alton Brown utters the words “connective tissue” . . . Or “golden brown and delicious.” ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/10 "2010-12-06T12:45:29Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > Whenever Alton Brown utters the words “connective tissue” . . . OR at least the phrase “golden brown and delicious!” ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/11 "2010-12-06T14:00:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > **Giada At Home:** > > Take a drink whenever Giada exaggerates Italian words (“Free-TA-TA!”) When I saw her new line of cookware and food products at Target, and saw that it included spaghetti, it took _all_ my strength not to go after them with a Sharpie, changing the word to “spageetee” on every box. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/12 "2010-12-06T14:18:27Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Warning don’t do this. It will result in alcohol poisoning. > RR is always perky. No human can drink for 30 minutes non-stop and expect to live. You’ve obviously never met some of the friends I had in college. Anyway take a drink whenever someone makes an orgasmic sound after taking a bite. That’ll make your liver suffer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/13 "2010-12-06T15:18:54Z")
Try every time Pat Neely or Paula Deen says “yaw” (as opposed to “ya’ll”). I happened to catch an old episode of Paula from about 5 years ago. She looked about 15 years older than she does now, and was not drawling ya’ll every other word. Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/14 "2010-12-06T16:26:12Z")
Take a drink everytime someone moans/gasps/etc after taking a bite of something that someone else made. Take two drinks if they moan after taking a bite of something they made themselves. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/15 "2010-12-06T16:30:06Z")
> [@lawoot](#): > > OR at least the phrase “golden brown and delicious!” Don’t forget “the only uni-tasker allowed in my kitchen”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/16 "2010-12-06T16:36:25Z")
Anne Burrell and her “demon” voice. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/17 "2010-12-06T16:38:46Z")
Whenever they insert “karate chop” sound effects on Iron Chef America. Whenever Mark Summers makes a food pun on Unwrapped. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/18 "2010-12-06T16:43:16Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Whenever Mark Summers makes a food pun on Unwrapped. AA version: every time they’re funny or clever. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/19 "2010-12-06T16:47:51Z")
Whenever Rachael claims that whatever dish she has “cooked” is “enough to feed an army.” It usually looks to be enough to serve 6 to 8. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116/20 "2010-12-06T17:03:22Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Don’t forget “the only uni-tasker allowed in my kitchen”. Also when he does the ice pick demonstration of why certain frozen foods get mushy. Chug when that happens. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-network-drinking-games/563116.md?page=2)