# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [March 1, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/61 "2007-03-01T03:35:21Z")
[QUOTE=2pelo honey] Ok, have you read the Ruhlman blog by Tony Bourdain regarding the FN? [/QUOTE] The one in post 22 of this thread? ---
**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, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/62 "2007-03-01T03:51:08Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] The one in post 22 of this thread? [/QUOTE] :o um, yep…that’d be the one. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/63 "2007-03-02T02:46:48Z")
Speaking of which, while I was amused by Bourdain’s characterization of Sandra Lee as a “Hell Spawn” who “Must Be Stopped,” and further invective of a similar nature in this thread, I must confess, I’d never actually seen her show for myself. I had the general gist from this and other rantings, and I assumed I was able to imagine the tenor of the experience, but I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand. That oversight has now been corrected. TiVo had apparently recorded an episode of Alton Brown earlier in the day, and was still on the Food Network when I came home and flipped on the tube. There, I found, was Sandra Lee herself. Curious, I put down the remote, and watched. Bourdain is incorrect. She is not “Hell Spawn,” a creature of the abyss. She is the very Devil, the one and only, a bosomy Beelzebub. She was doing the show on a Rhode Island beach. The theme was “Clambake.” She was wearing a short empire-waist babydoll dress, sort of like [this](http://www.jeannienitro.com/gn37.jpg), except red, and with the collar and plunging white-trimmed neckline of [this](http://www.podshow.com/images/show_guide/small/SG44ac82210f51d1.43393647.jpg). It was hideous; the general effect wasn’t quite as bad as [this](http://jphilip.typepad.com/redguybluestate/images/french20maid20dingo.jpg) but it was close. The result of this outfit, needless to say, is that every time she would hold something up for a closeup, it was right in front of her cleavage, giving the camera, and therefore us the viewers, a terrifyingly intimate view of her leathery hooters. But that’s not why she’s The Devil. No-- it’s because of the food. Now, I won’t bother to describe the “fish tacos” with “peach salsa.” I won’t bore you with her repeated references to “tablescape.” There’s no point in detailing the horror that was frozen pound cake spread with strawberry cream cheese. I suppose it’s worth mentioning her smugness at recounting the transfer of the bag of pre-made coleslaw mix into her own plastic bag, but I shan’t dwell on it. The only thing you need to know comes from her assembly of the aforementioned “clambake.” She put a few ingredients into a pot – chopped shallot, bottle of white wine, nothing complicated – and described cleaning the clams and mussels and checking them for safety. And then she proudly displayed a store-bought jar of crushed garlic; as she spooned some into the pot, she said, and I quote, with emphasis added by me: “Look at how well mashed that is. **Don’t you just hate biting into an actual piece of garlic? I sure do.** ” I rewound and watched it again to be sure I’d heard it correctly. No mistake. So Bourdain is right about one thing: She Must Be Stopped. ---
**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 2, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/64 "2007-03-02T04:11:09Z")
Holy christ, I am laughing so hard, I won’t be able to sleep now…thanks alot!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/65 "2007-03-02T13:25:53Z")
John Kovalic has been listening: [Dork Tower Comic, March 2](http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1231) Enjoy! ---
**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 2, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869/66 "2007-03-02T14:03:34Z")
Oh, the humanity. **Cervaise** was that the episode where she’s talking about how easy a picnic at the beach is – surrounded by her dozens of hotplates, with nary an electrical outlet in sight? That woman just doesn’t live in the same world as the rest of us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favorite-food-network-personality/393869.md?page=3)