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.
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.
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.
I’ve posted this before, but it sums up my feeling perfectly.
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.”
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray, and Rachael Ray.
Oh, and Paula Deen, but only 'cause she sounds exactly like my wicked step-grandmother.
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).
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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: