# Who is your LEAST favorite Food Network personality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869 "2007-02-27T13:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/41 "2007-02-27T21:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=supervenusfreak] Sandra Lee. I wonder why she still has a show. [/QUOTE] So that I can mock her, and I don’t even cook. Her show has this fenderbender (not quite trainwreck) quality about it that’s oddly interesting. It’s not a great purpose, but it’s a purpose. Bobby Flay, OTOH, needs to go. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/42 "2007-02-27T21:22:02Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] From what I’ve heard from black people on other online communities, it’s a “fairly common” stereotype that black people love Corn Nuts. Not having known what Corn Nuts were before this bit of information, I just kind of assumed it was another stereotype that I hadn’t heard of before. But yeah, either way, the cake is disgusting. [/QUOTE] While the cake looks truly disgusting (and I also hate Sandra Lee), I have never heard anything about black people loving Corn Nuts. My old roommate Kyan (big, fat, jolly Southern black dude) always laughed it up about common stereotypes, and assured us that “Of course black folk love fried chicken! So do white folk, because it’s GOOD!” I ought to ask him about the Corn Nuts thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/43 "2007-02-27T21:42:46Z")
I dated a Peruvian woman and visited Peru where I was lucky enough to meet a lot of her relatives. Every house I went to had corn nuts set out. They are suprisingly addictive. Some guy named Albert Holloway claims to have invented them, but I know better. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/44 "2007-02-27T22:55:44Z")
I’ve posted this before, but it sums up my feeling perfectly. > [@Toki Wartooth](#): > > ``` > Satanic Priest: Pray now the prayer of revenge. On whom do you seek revenge? > Toki: I seek revenge on Rachael Ray of the Food Network! Can't you make her... eyes fall out, something? Tits fall off? > Satanic Priest: Satan! Grant this man the gift of revenge against his foes at the Food Network. > Toki: Really? > Satanic Priest: Yes. > Toki: Really?! > Satanic Priest: Yes. > Toki: S-seriously? > Satanic Priest: Yes. > Toki: That's cool. > > ``` I also hate Giada pretty bad too, despite the fact that she’s a fellow Bruin. I think I dislike Bobby Flay though most of all. As my husband put it, “That guy has a face like a cigarette that I want to grind out with my bootheel.” ---
**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 28, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/45 "2007-02-28T00:57:31Z")
[QUOTE=DoctorJ] Sandra “Semi-Halfassed” Lee. The fact that she trudges on while a smart show like Molto Mario gets canceled shows you everything that’s wrong with the Food Network. [/QUOTE] Hallelujah. Plus she remakes her whole freaking kitchen for each show so the colors and knick-knacks match the theme, and if she didn’t spend so much money and time on elaborate, crafts-y centerpieces she could have made some decent food. Sorry, honey, the towering glittery things you prop up on the tables do not make up for you trying to make chocolate truffles out of **premade frosting**. Bobby Flay comes off as really f’in smarmy but at least he’s not making everything into tamales like he used to. I want to bitch-slap Rachael Ray for the cutesy words (“stoup,” “sammy,” “yum-o,” and “EVOO” top the list), and her being too goddamned perky for words. Her “$40 a Day” show is obnoxious - she often barely tips adequately so she can get a dessert or a big drink in, and half of each show is her practically orgasming over how “delish” each meal is. Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa) comes off as being really snobby. She’s always inviting over very wealthy “friends” to celebrate something or other, and I can’t see any warmth between her and her husband so their interactions just seem weird. I saw a recent episode where she apparently had a sore throat, and it was really funny - she sounded like she couldn’t maintain the proper New England accent that she was used to, and it came out more like a stereotypical New York accent. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/46 "2007-02-28T01:10:05Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] While the cake looks truly disgusting (and I also hate Sandra Lee), I have never heard anything about black people loving Corn Nuts. My old roommate Kyan (big, fat, jolly Southern black dude) always laughed it up about common stereotypes, and assured us that “Of course black folk love fried chicken! So do white folk, because it’s GOOD!” I ought to ask him about the Corn Nuts thing. [/QUOTE] This may just be a regional stereotype, as I hadn’t heard of the “black people love Corn Nuts” myth before then. By the way, fried chicken is the only type of chicken craving I ever get. It’s delicious. ---
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/47 "2007-02-28T01:14:30Z")
Unless I missed it, I can’t believe no one’s brought up the fact that EVOO will be included in the next edition of the Oxford American College Dictionary…“It’s the end of the world as we know it”… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/48 "2007-02-28T01:17:28Z")
I’d say it’s a tie between Bobby Flay and Sandra Lee. I have watched them both but I think I have a higher tolerance for Lee because of the mockability factor of her show. As for Rachel Ray, I just don’t watch her that much for her to annoy me as much. I did accidentally catch a few minutes of her talk show where she confessed to drinking something like 2 pots of coffee a day. I certainly don’t doubt it. So to those RR haters, just remember, she’s likely to suffer from a fatal arrhythmia soon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/49 "2007-02-28T01:24:45Z")
Don’t get me started. Just don’t. I can’t believe there’s a thread on this. Just a week or so ago I called up my cousin in LA just to go on an expletive filled rant about the Food Network schlubs I hate the most. Sandra Lee- Unabashedly white trash. Hot dogs tossed into Spaghetti-O’s is not a cooking show! I’m waiting for the episode where she checks herself into Betty Ford and realizes she’s been making “stoner food” for the cameras. Oh what a cathartic confession that would be. Giada DeLaurentis- One minute I swear she’s got lifts in her shoes and the next minute she grinning whilepulling herself up to the kitchen counter by her fingertips grinning like a Hobbit on mushrooms. Everytime she opens that her gaping cakehole I want to gag. Does she need to fucking unhinge her jaw everytime she moves her teeth? Oh, and don’t thing the masses didn’t notice you rolling your flatulent eyes when it was announced that Rachel Ray beat you on Iron Chef. Barefoot Contessa- I can’t repeat what I’ve said about her. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/50 "2007-02-28T01:39:43Z")
I looked at that Kwanzaa cake and was amazed it even got 2 stars so I read the reviews. Most of them gave 1 or 2 stars and said it was horrible but there are several suspicious ones that give 5 stars, I think Sandra Lee may have a few pseudonyms. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/51 "2007-02-28T01:53:59Z")
I like most of the Food Network folks mentioned above, and I love Alton Dean with the heat of a thousand broilers. The only Food Network person I can’t stand is George Duran, of “Ham on the Street.” This guy thinks he’s funny and cool, but I find him to be obnoxious and unwatchable. He is the anti-Alton. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/52 "2007-02-28T02:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Breaking up the cooktimes on his show with clips of him reading books (of Victorian poetry, I’m certain) while leaning against a stone wall which is presumably out in his yard, Michael “Napastyle” Chiarello takes the cake for me. What a pretentious asshole. He’s like Bourdain only boring, vaguely straightedge, not funny, and profoundly closeted. I experience physical pain when I watch _Easy Entertaining_, none more exquisite than the finale of every show, where people pretend to have fun at whatever crappy little party is the result of his work. Ahaha, ha. Oh my, what a card you are, Napastyle. Ha. His retarded casino night episode is a particularly vile form of torture. Seeing him chewing on an unlit cigar in a 50’s-style poker dealer hat, trying to look like a hardcore Vegas backroomer, is an image which haunts me to this very day. [/QUOTE] I’m convinced that anyone who labels another personality as the most loathsome simply hasn’t seen enough of this squinting little twit. One of these days I’m going to break my TV when his show sneaks up on me when I’m not paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/53 "2007-02-28T05:59:26Z")
Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray, and Rachael Ray. Oh, and Paula Deen, but only 'cause she sounds exactly like my wicked step-grandmother. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/54 "2007-02-28T18:25:42Z")
Sandra Lee - for the use of the word “tablescape.” Rachael Ray - her voice is like fingernails on a chalkboard (she has recently moved past my hatred of Emeril, but both of them get an insta-mute whenever they accidentally pop onto my screen). ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/55 "2007-02-28T18:44:41Z")
Add me to the Sandra Lee hate-list. With the “Barefoot _(must-resist-making-obscene-pun)_ Contessa” a very close second. Paula Deen can get extremely annoying, but she has some good recipes, so I’ll give her a pass. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/56 "2007-02-28T22:50:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] Paula’s story was that her dirty ol’ hubband done dropped her for a newer model, and lef’ her with two babies to feed! She made and delivered sandwiches 26 hours a day and damn near died of it. Except that her story now is that she started the sandwich business while still married, also ran a hotel restaurant that was enormously popular, her boys were out of high school and did all the delivery work, and… _she_ divorced her \*husband \* because he wasn’t good enough for her anymore. I sort of liked, or was okay with, both Oprah and Paula Deen before I saw her “updated” biography. I now loathe both of them. But not as much as I loathe Rachael Ray. [/QUOTE] Wow, that’s actually hilarious to me; I always noted how constantly she rubbed it in about her new boyfriend/husband and how awesome he was and how in love she was and I’d wonder why. That explains it. I actually like her accent, though. And some of her food looks really good (though not all). I’ll check in as hating Rachel Ray, Emeril and Sandra Lee. A lesser but healthy portion of dislike gets awarded to Giada, Bobby Flay, the Ham on the Street Guy and Duff from Ace of Cakes. All obnoxious and they receive a lot more acclaim than it looks like they deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/57 "2007-02-28T23:27:50Z")
Y’know, there’s a place for shortcuts. Things that save time, save effort, don’t dirty up your kitchen and are 90% as good as the laboriously hand made stuff. But fucking instant whipped topping? Are you on fucking crack? It takes exactly as much effort to dump a carton of cream into a mixer and turn it on as it does to dump an envelope of “dream whip” and water into the mixer and turn it on. What the hell? If you really want to save effort, get the goddam spray whip cream in a can, at least that’s fucking real cream albeit light cream, and you don’t have to dirty a single goddam item on the tablescape. Spray whipped cream in a can is an example of “good enough” for people who don’t wanna take the effort, fucking “dream whip” is fucking stupid, period. Yes, I’m talking about Sandra Lee. Holy crap, what a fucking crap show. Yeah, take shortcuts, damn straight, but you don’t have to substitute crap for real food just because the crap is a “shortcut” when it isn’t really a short cut. Semihomemade my ass! Instant pudding, cake mixes, all these things have their place. A cake mix is just flour, sugar, leaven and flavoring, making a cake mix the base of your cake dessert is fine. But fuck, does she make really really dumb bonehead “shortcuts”. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/58 "2007-03-01T01:44:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] But fucking instant whipped topping? Are you on fucking crack? It takes exactly as much effort to dump a carton of cream into a mixer and turn it on as it does to dump an envelope of “dream whip” and water into the mixer and turn it on. What the hell? … [/QUOTE] As I’d mentioned, she’s got an expensive stand mixer in every color known to mankind. You can see them, sitting unused in the background of her show kitchen, there only to match the color of the tablescape-du-jour. My theory is, it’s not the _effort_ that stops her from using it, it’s that the thing might get _dirty_. And then it wouldn’t match her decor. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/59 "2007-03-01T01:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=Threadkiller] Inspired by some of the responses in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=409825) thread. But I save my loathing for Paula Deen. Can’t stand her show. Annoyed by her delivery. Really hate her ‘feild trips’. Refuse to watch her new show. Can’t forgive her for unleashing the ‘Spawn of Deen’ on the viewing public (The ads for ‘Road Tasted’ seemed to consist of the Deen Boys driving around and laughing a lot–can anyone tell me if this was worth anything? I refuse to find out on my own). [/QUOTE] I REALLY hate Paula Deen. I hate her fake Southern accent. I hate her pudgy figure. Her cooking is insipid. She’s not even good to look at (like another irritant on FN, Rachel Ray). And, her sons are morons. ---
**Author:** ![2pelo\_honey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecb155/32.png) [@2pelo\_honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2pelo_honey)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/60 "2007-03-01T02:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=PharmBoy] I REALLY hate Paula Deen. I hate her fake Southern accent. I hate her pudgy figure. Her cooking is insipid. She’s not even good to look at (like another irritant on FN, Rachel Ray). And, her sons are morons. [/QUOTE] Ok, have you read the Ruhlman blog by Tony Bourdain regarding the FN? Zero in on the section about Pawla…dear god, I thought I’d die…“her supporting cast is beginning to look like the Hills Have Eyes”…that’s the direct quote. I guess that’s the whole fam damily??? :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869.md?page=4)