# Giada (From food network) and her cleavage. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216 "2013-02-13T20:53:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/21 "2013-02-14T01:00:13Z")
What do I think? I’ve never heard of her. Let me go Image-Google her and get back to you. … Arrgh! :eek: Why is she always baring her huge, enormous teeth at me?? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/22 "2013-02-14T01:33:07Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > 🙂 > > Well, the only thing that gives me pause for thought is the fact that an overwhelming majority of Food networks’s viewers are women. So showing off the girls just to drum up male viewers seems rather dubious to me. It got me to start watching. Of course now I watch her shows for the recipes. Lots of good stuff on there. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/23 "2013-02-14T01:39:25Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > It got me to start watching. > > Of course now I watch her shows for the recipes. Lots of good stuff on there. Is that anything like reading Playboy for the excellent journalism? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/24 "2013-02-14T01:46:54Z")
Name, I mean it. I use a lot of recipes shown on her show. Especially the chocolate peanut butter cookie recipe. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/25 "2013-02-14T01:50:02Z")
She has tiny T-Rex arms. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/26 "2013-02-14T03:16:53Z")
At the Tucker abode, we refer to Giada’s programs as using the ‘cleavage-cam.’ ---
**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:** [February 14, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/27 "2013-02-14T03:37:30Z")
**Shakes** , where do you hang out that you would consider that a\* little\* cleavage? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/28 "2013-02-14T03:39:19Z")
Wait–Giada COOKS, too? I never noticed. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/29 "2013-02-14T04:07:20Z")
How the hell does a thread like this not have a gratuitous number of cleavage pictures in it?! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/30 "2013-02-14T04:17:12Z")
Fine. Here: )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( )( ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/31 "2013-02-14T04:26:20Z")
Thirty posts so far, and no one has mentioned Laura Calder? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/32 "2013-02-14T04:39:02Z")
“Aperitif nibbles” indeed… 😛 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4kjZvSA3fQY/hqdefault.jpg "Laura Calder - The Food Network") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjZvSA3fQY) ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/33 "2013-02-14T04:51:29Z")
Am I the only one that reads “Giardia” whenever I see her name? ---
**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:** [February 14, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/34 "2013-02-14T04:55:18Z")
She peppers her cooking segments with little montages of close-ups that are basically porn with different equipment. I can’t prove it, but I know I saw one such montage included her thoroughly flouring a vertically-held rolling pin–even though a rolling pin was not being used in the dish she was cooking. I have new respect for her, though, since I heard about her demo at the Kentucky Proud Food Show a few years ago when she pwned UK basketball hero turned moronic state Secretary of Agriculture Ritchie Farmer. He came on stage to help her and she was talking about cooking with arugula. He was obviously clueless, so she asked him straight out if he had ever heard of arugula and he admitted that he hadn’t. She just stared at him for a minute, then said “You’re the Secretary of Agriculture, right?” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/35 "2013-02-14T11:55:46Z")
Why else do they call it food porn? ---
**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:** [February 14, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/36 "2013-02-14T12:28:11Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Why else do they call it food porn? Because it fires up your desire when you watch it but the vast majority of viewers would never actually do something like that? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/37 "2013-02-14T14:26:00Z")
Indeed. Here is a [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnAhP9zxoo) of said rolling pin (at about 2:12), altho not vertically floured. I hope that dough never gets rolled. I could watch her cook for me every day, and hope the food never gets finished. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/38 "2013-02-14T14:37:32Z")
She’s not clueless about the affect she has. In one of her interviews on the Food Network, she said that she was shocked when she found out that college guys were lusting after her during her college appearances. She said her attitude now is “meh.” Gotta love her. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/39 "2013-02-14T14:43:20Z")
[What Giada inspires me to accomplish](http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2012/02/giada-totally-misses-the-point/) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216/40 "2013-02-14T14:48:54Z")
She can flour my rolling pin anytime she wants! 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giada-from-food-network-and-her-cleavage/650216.md?page=3)