# "Pioneer Woman" Ree Drummond fascinates the hell out of me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357 "2013-08-15T22:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/41 "2013-08-16T20:57:13Z")
She out-butters Paula Deen which I did not think was possible. I see her in the PW category: huge phony who turns ordinarily delicious plain food into high calorie, over-the-top, unappealing gutbombs. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/42 "2013-08-17T03:08:00Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > [One of the less complimentary accounts of her out there](http://www.rechelleunplugged.com/2010/05/finding-my-viscera-parts-i-and-ii/) Okaaaaaay. That was one of the most schizo accounts I’ve ever read. The comments section is priceless and well worth a look to the end to get passed all the fawning and to the parts where people think the blogger is nuts. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/43 "2013-08-17T12:34:30Z")
All I know about the woman is from that one site, and the big ones were her telling people to microwave Nutella in the jar and some recipes that had the same ingredients but different amounts–of rather basic things you’d expect to be similar. The rest of it was just someone coming up with reasons to dislike whatever she did that day. Well, that and making fun of her fans for being so gushy about her. Oh, and there were the occasional blog posts where she didn’t initially credit the recipe-maker but then went back later and fixed it. ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/44 "2013-08-18T02:06:35Z")
Ree Drummund ‘networks’. She works at promoting herself and her career. That she does it in the public eye makes it no worse than what the rest of us do to promote our professional image. Whether or not you like her cooking - buy/don’t her cookbooks, watch/don’t her show - you vote with your choices. As far as the plagiarism, as far as recipes go, there is very little new under the sun. I expect that most recipes I read/watch have been done before and that they are showcased because of their relevance to the situation at hand - sort of like ‘here’s how I do this’. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/45 "2013-08-18T02:20:43Z")
that Rechelle is a good writer though. Did you click the link to the post about lice? She is strangely unaware though about how that could have put a damper on the visit. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/46 "2013-08-18T02:51:00Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > that Rechelle is a good writer though. Did you click the link to the post about lice? She is strangely unaware though about how that could have put a damper on the visit. That post just oozes crazy. Portions like her trying to figure out if Ree reads her blog or not, or making gifts for her in an attempt to suck up, or the whole “why the hell did she ask me if I had a baby… am I milky?” list are just full of “you have no fucking idea how neurotic you seem” scariness. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/47 "2013-08-18T03:29:18Z")
Funny, I found entries on PW blog about that weekend and everyone looked like we’re enjoying themselves. I can’t believe she went with head lice to someone else’s home. ---
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/48 "2013-08-18T07:58:05Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > [One of the less complimentary accounts of her out there](http://www.rechelleunplugged.com/2010/05/finding-my-viscera-parts-i-and-ii/) Either Rechelle is total nut case or she has a body of work and enough fans to legitimize this joke. I’m thinking, if I read this stuff from, say, David Sedaris or even Stephen Colbert I’d know it was total satire. There’s that rant about her sister and a joint blog, it sounds nuts to me but maybe it’s a private joke amongst her fans? In any case, if she was an invited guest at PW’s house she’s being rude. If she actually went there with head lice she’s contemptible. It occurred to me that she might be testing the water for a website similar to the ‘I Hate Rachael Ray’ that was popular several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/49 "2013-08-18T13:55:36Z")
I read a couple of Rechelle’s blog posts and I’m not quite ready to call her crazy, but she is really trying too hard. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/50 "2013-08-18T16:31:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > If she meant Pioneer Woman seriously, she would be intolerable. Seeing how a real pioneer woman coped with life would be a helluva lot more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357/51 "2013-08-18T22:58:23Z")
> [@Zago](#): > > Either Rechelle is total nut case or she has a body of work and enough fans to legitimize this joke. I’m thinking, if I read this stuff from, say, David Sedaris or even Stephen Colbert I’d know it was total satire. She did say she apparently holds David Sedaris in higher esteem than anyone else on the planet. The bit about the lice that I thought was pretty hilarious for being written by someone not famous like Sedaris was this: > [@](#): > > It wasn’t until late Saturday evening that my head began to itch. At first I thought it was just ‘sympathetic itching’ or ‘paranoid itching’ or ‘phantom itching’ but the itching would not stop. Since everyone knew about my kids having head lice, I was very self-conscious about itching my head. I tried to be discreet. As we sat around and talked, I pretended to be innocently twisting my hair in a charming backwoods, public-educated, demon-possessed way. After twisting it for a while, I would surreptitiously let the twisting turn into a seven second itch-fest, then back to twisting, then itching, then twisting, then itching etc, etc. When everyone started to look at me funny, I got up and grabbed the silverware basket from the dishwasher as if I were being a helpful guest, but before I placed each fork and knife in the utensil drawer, I furiously raked it through the part of my hair several times. After I got all the silverware put away, my head was still itching like mad so I nonchalantly leaned against a bank of upper cabinets and began rubbing the crown of my head against the sharp corner edge until blood began to flow freely down my face. > > “Does anyone want to play Cowboys and Indians?” I asked, blinking the dripping blood from my eyes. I looked at Marlboro Man in particular, “C’mon Ladd!” I screamed, “You be the cowboy and I will be the Indian!” I dipped my finger in some of my blood and used it as war paint on my cheeks. Then I handed Ladd a huge butcher knife and knelt on the ground in front of him. ”Scalp me Marlboro Man!” I begged. ”Scalp me until you can see my brains!” I begged. ”Please! Oh Please, Please, Please! Just Rip It Off! Go ahead! Just slice off the top of my head! HAVE SOME MERCY MARLBORO MAN! Just do it!” > > Ree asked me if I wanted a cup of coffee. > > “Yes… please… Holy God… Please…” I gasped as I tried to dab up my gushing blood from the pine floor with the hem of my shirt. > > She handed me a steaming cup and I promptly poured it over my burning head and then began smashing the mug against the back of my skull, desperate for just a few seconds of relief from the non-stop itching. Then I picked up the broken shards from the busted mug and used them to scrape against what little remained of my torn, raggedy scalp. This went on all night long, but I don’t think anyone really noticed me How does one notice anyone else when Pioneer Woman and Marlboro Man are in the room? It’s like being in the presence of Brad and Angelina… Katie and Tom… Jack and Jackie Kennedy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pioneer-woman-ree-drummond-fascinates-the-hell-out-of-me/666357.md?page=2)