# Rachael Ray's talk show - Oh what a beating **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602 "2006-09-21T19:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/41 "2006-09-23T22:48:30Z")
Sorry about that double post, **HowieReynolds** beat me to it. Was excited about giant butts and not thinking straight. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/42 "2006-09-24T00:46:13Z")
Ain’t nothing wrong with RR’s figure – she’s a fine looking lass, with a damn sweet a$$. Her personality can be a bit off-putting, but overall, RR is very attractive, successful, and confident and as she herself might say “How cool is that?” Anyone who thinks her breasts are bad and her butt is big, need to stop looking at all the sculpted, overworked, bony, BS women that the media pushes at you every day and realize that RR is what a REAL woman tends to look like. Even more, she is what an ATTRACTIVE REAL woman tends to look like. I hope she chooses to age gracefully and stays away from the damn Plastic Surgeons. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/43 "2006-09-24T00:58:47Z")
[QUOTE=ddgryphon] Plastic Surgeons. [/QUOTE] Fake boobs are the biggest turnoff for me (not counting tattoos/piercings). I don’t care if a gal is flat as a board, her boobies are still magnificent. Didn’t the french say anything more than a champagne flute is a waste? I concur. RR is hot as 400 suns. Heck, I do her daddy she’s so hot. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/44 "2006-09-24T01:22:16Z")
I’d do her in a heartbeat, and I have my wife’s permission, too. (Of course, she gets to do Adam Baldwin in exchange.) RR is a goddess, Earth Mother(Light) Division. ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/45 "2006-09-24T01:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Well, at least the British goddess Nigella Lawson is coming to Food Network (with an actual cooking show). I’d like to see her teach Rachael and Giada a thing or two, and just maybe spill EVOO all over herself in the meantime! [/QUOTE] I agree with this. I love Nigella Lawson. I just think Rachel Ray is abrasive and her non-stop talking and voice drive me up the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/46 "2006-09-24T03:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] I agree with this. I love Nigella Lawson. I just think Rachel Ray is abrasive and her non-stop talking and voice drive me up the wall. [/QUOTE] Nothing a good ball gag won’t fix. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/47 "2006-09-24T09:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=bordelond] :dubious: One immense thing in her favor, for a lot of men, is that Rachael Ray looks and acts _accessible_. She doesn’t look like an automatic shoot-down if one were to hypothetically chat her up. Heck, even let-down from her is probably a fun few minutes spent … at worst, a brief bit of fun conversation. Contrary to Doper consensus, her on-screen personality is not a universal turnoff. [/QUOTE] Not just to a lot of men, but to a lot of women too. Especially in Middle America. That’s Michael Ruhlman’s theory about Ray Ray[sup]1[/sup]'s appeal in his latest book, \* The Reach of a Chef\*. He also dissects Emeril in a million pieces 😃 Me? I can’t stand the woman, buit I can see understand why she’s a bankable Food Network star. [sup]1[/sup] Rachael’s nickname over at TWoP. Oh, the snark going on about her… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/48 "2006-09-24T09:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] My wife goes to work every day and tries to stop anorexic women from starving themselves to death. And they do it partly because they hear these kinds of comments about completely normal looking women being ‘fat’. [/QUOTE] Thank you, **Sam**. And give your wife a hug for me. And on the topic of Rachael Ray’s show - what the hell kind of hyperactive attention-deficit topic-jumping weirdfest is going on? Is it a cooking show? A talk show? A reality show? A game show? I’m so confused. I caught it last week and decided to stay on the channel because I’d seen her name tossed around on the Dope and wanted to see what her cooking was like. So I sat through: - Video clips of some woman showing me how to hang-dry my jeans in a way that would keep the butt from going flat (??) - A bit where Rachael and a zookeeper were competing for the attention of polar bears by making a meal for them - Showing us pictures drawn by viewers’ kids, awww - A woman going around Rachael’s TV kitchen collecting things with Xs on them and stuffing them into a bowl And then, somewhere after all that, in the last ten minutes of the show, she cooked something. I gotta say, I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/49 "2006-09-24T14:18:05Z")
She has more than one show. You actually need to watch _30-Minute Meals_ if you want to see her cook anything good. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/50 "2006-09-24T14:43:35Z")
I actually enjoy the majority of _30-Minute Meals_. It is a pretty solid show and the concept is refreshing. I could do without the damned “EVOO”. Her grating personality is only absent from her _Tasty Travels_. I think that is a result of the narrative approach to the show. The more cooking shows I watch, the easier it is for me to tune out hosts. This stems from my early desire to watch _Emeril Live_ for the recipes. He is significantly more tolerable on _The Essence of Emeril_. I love Paula Deen though. When I read that they were giving Rachel Ray a talk show I decided to avoid it unless it made it into a second season. During the first season, most talk show hosts suck terribly because they do not know how to approach anything successfully. Once they learn to interview and figure out what direction they would like to take their show in, they usually improve…unless their name is Magic. At the risk of beating a dead horse, Rachel Ray is not fat at all. There is nothing wrong with a girl having a visible ass. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/51 "2006-09-24T16:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=Frosted Glass] I love Paula Deen though. [/QUOTE] Now _there’s_ a voice that makes RR’s voice sound like the crooning of angels. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602/52 "2006-09-24T17:54:12Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] Now _there’s_ a voice that makes RR’s voice sound like the crooning of angels. [/QUOTE] Meh, if you’d backdoor her just right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rachael-rays-talk-show-oh-what-a-beating/373602.md?page=2)