# Leave me alone, Rachel Ray **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024 "2007-02-13T15:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/1 "2007-02-13T15:44:44Z")
Stop following me through the supermarket. Get off of the magazines in the check out. Get out of my TV. And stay off of my cracker boxes. Yes, I’m talking to _you_, Rachel Ray. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/2 "2007-02-13T15:53:25Z")
She used to be perky and cute, and I wanted her in my life. Now she’s annoying and ubiquitous, and I want her out of my life. She ain’t even that good a cook. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/3 "2007-02-13T15:59:44Z")
One of my many worst nightmares was realized when I saw bottles of Olive Oil on the shelf labeled “EVOO” and had her dolphin-toothed smiling face on it. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/4 "2007-02-13T16:09:20Z")
That’s fine, I’ll take your Rachael leftovers (delish!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/5 "2007-02-13T16:18:52Z")
My younger brother left me aghast by saying (after I confessed my long-running, thusfar platonic infatuation with Nigella Lawson) that he found Rachel Ray sexier. We’re not related by blood, he and I—and never before had I been so acutely aware of that fact, nor so relieved by it. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/6 "2007-02-13T16:20:28Z")
I suspect that when the Crab People failed to enslave us all using the Queer Eye Deception, they selected their best to go out on a solo mission (The EVOO Exchange) in their new Rachel Ray disguise. Yes ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/7 "2007-02-13T16:21:48Z")
Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend Smiling faces show no traces Of the EVOO that lurks within can you dig it? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/8 "2007-02-13T17:32:50Z")
I like Rachel Ray. Almost everything I’ve read about her says she’s just a very nice, down to earth person. For example: During Fashion Week in New York last week they did a “show” to raise money for women’s heart disease issues, in which they enlisted all these famous and semi-famous women to walk the catwalk in red dresses. And apparently many of them were enormous pains in the asses, walking around acting like Big Stars and insisting on perfect styling, etc. Whereas RR came, threw on the dress they gave her, did her walk down the runway – clearly nervous – and then, as she stepped down, was overheard to mutter “Thank God that’s over!” IOW, probably how I would react in a similar situation. She’s cute, but not _gorgeous_, she cooks accessible “hey-I-could-make-that” if not incredible food, and she seems like a person it would be fun to hang out with. Sure, she steps over the line into cutesy-ville sometimes, but that doesn’t bug me the way it seems to bug some of the Rachel-haters. That said, I don’t buy her mag, I don’t eat her crackers, and I only occasionally watch her show. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/9 "2007-02-13T17:39:24Z")
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I could never be married to Rachel Ray, but I could handle her for thirty minutes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/10 "2007-02-13T17:40:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] I could never be married to Rachel Ray, but I could handle her for thirty minutes. 😃 [/QUOTE] Would that be a thirty minute meal? ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/11 "2007-02-13T17:43:32Z")
And would it be under 40 dollars? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/12 "2007-02-13T17:44:13Z")
Rachael Ray feeds on your growing paranoia and finds it “delish.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/13 "2007-02-13T17:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] And would it be under 40 dollars? [/QUOTE] Only if the 40 dollars were affixed to her belt. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/14 "2007-02-13T17:50:41Z")
I don’t know if this is appropriate or germane, but I haven’t the slightest idea who this utterly famous person is. Except that she cooks. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/15 "2007-02-13T17:53:19Z")
I’m pretty sure she’d be a lot of fun in the sack though. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/16 "2007-02-13T17:57:57Z")
[Anthony Bourdain on Rachel Ray and other FoodNetwork personalities](http://blog.ruhlman.com/2007/02/guest_blogging_.html) ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/17 "2007-02-13T17:58:41Z")
RR dipped in EVOO, mmm… Delish! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/18 "2007-02-13T18:00:13Z")
[QUOTE=Madd Maxx] I’m pretty sure she’d be a lot of fun in the sack though. [/QUOTE] She’s so perky out of the sack that I’m betting she’s a corpse who doesn’t “do those kinds of things” in bed. I have no idea why things work that way, but they usually seem to. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/19 "2007-02-13T18:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=VenusProbe] RR dipped in EVOO, mmm… Delish! [/QUOTE] I suddenly have a thirst for a slippery nipple. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024/20 "2007-02-13T18:04:11Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] She’s so perky out of the sack that I’m betting she’s a corpse who doesn’t “do those kinds of things” in bed… [/QUOTE] Easiest thing in the world. Memorize the following, and use as appropriate: “Of course you’re right, dear, nice girls don’t do that sort of thing. And besides, if your Mom ever found out that you had, she would be totally shocked and horrified…” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leave-me-alone-rachel-ray/392024.md?page=2)