I would eat anything Racheal Ray put in front of me.
Anything.
This seems like an appropriate place to put this.
I was listening to Says You on the radio. It’s a game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster.
Well, the challenge in question involved “Rachel Barkley” One was supposed to expand it out, put in a couple of names in the middle, so that using famous names, one could get from Rachel to Barkley. Rachel Ray Charles Barkley. Rachel Ray, Ray Charles, Charles Barkley.
Rachel Ray is the Barney of the Food Television. cue laughter. And a mild joke about whether that was an appropriate comment for public radio.
I’d never heard of her until she started appearing on boxes of Stoned Wheat Thins with some “recipes” that consist of putting stuff on top of a wheat thin.
I’ve been sick the past few days, so I’ve been watching a lot of Food Network. I’ve probably seen five or six 30 Minute Meals episodes this week (plus, I used to watch the show a lot, probably two years ago) and can attest that she chops everything on the show. I’ve seen her use packaged sticks of celery before, but they were cut at the store. I imagine that she cheats by having a swarm of stage/food-hands rush up and help out during the commercial breaks, but aside from pre-washed greens (which she claims to do right when she gets back from the grocery store, and which is a pretty reasonable thing to suggest to the viewers), I don’t think there’s actually “30 minutes of unseen prep work” as The King of Soup says.
That said, I think she’s one of the most irritating TV personalities I know of. The first two minutes of 30 Minute Meals, during which she explains the theme and dishes for that episode, are difficult to watch. She uses so many unnatural hand gestures.
To torture myself (since I’m sick anyway), I turned on her daytime show. She had Vince Gill on, who sang a nice song. The camera kept cutting away to Rachael’s reaction to watching him sing, which I thought was awkward and strange. Also, when she was talking to him afterwards, she only made eye contact with him about 5% of the time.
I think Ken Jennings is wrong about the comma. I think she intends for her recipe to be fun to make. And calling a recipe that’s meant for entertaining guests an “entertaining recipe” sounds weird.
Hell, the very concept of a “Food Network” is weird, if you ask me.
Almost as strange as a “Music Television” that features no music!
Maybe in a few years “Food Network” will have moved away from the whole “food” concept.
Does that include Rossie O’Donald or Joan Rivers. :eek: 
shudder
Not exactly. Whatever Rachael Ray puts in front of me has to be Rachael Ray’s. 
I know it’s an old thread, but I saw something funny and thought of you guys. Boston.com is now running a story about how Dunkin Donuts has now signed Rachel Ray as a new spokesperson, and the first comment on the story read, “Oh, God: Can’t Rachel Ray leave us alone?”
I tell you she cannot, for she is Satan’s own hellspawn.