# You're everywhere, Rachel Ray! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168 "2006-11-13T00:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/1 "2006-11-13T00:19:02Z")
I can turn a station, or look at a magazine, or open a box of Wheat Thins without hearing about this girl. And now she’s on the main page of [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com). Jesus, what makes her so popular? Where did she come from? Why should I care? ---
**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:** [November 13, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/2 "2006-11-13T00:26:50Z")
Perky hot? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/3 "2006-11-13T00:27:29Z")
Cute hot? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/4 "2006-11-13T00:40:49Z")
She was the PR person for a food store, and to drum up business put on cooking demonstrations. She somehow finagled her way onto the Today show, ended up with a cooking show on the Food Network (then got another show where she got to tour the country and eat out on $40 a day), which was followed by magazines, cookbooks, and a talk show. And she was in FHM too. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/5 "2006-11-13T01:02:46Z")
[QUOTE=Surbey] Jesus, what makes her so popular? Where did she come from? Why should I care? [/QUOTE] She’s been Oprah-fied. Just like with Dr. Phil, who was everywhere for a while after Oprah used her mojo on him. It will die down, eventually. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/6 "2006-11-13T03:26:33Z")
I’m with Anthony Bourdain. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/7 "2006-11-13T03:48:10Z")
She’s hot, she cooks, she’s hot, she travels, she’s hot… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/8 "2006-11-13T04:21:57Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] She’s hot, she cooks, she’s hot, she travels, she’s hot… [/QUOTE] But sweet jeebus that woman is _annoying_! Does she ever stop talking? She’s \*got \* to be taking the same pills the truckers use to stay up for three days straight. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/9 "2006-11-13T04:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Antigen] But sweet jeebus that woman is _annoying_! Does she ever stop talking? She’s \*got \* to be taking the same pills the truckers use to stay up for three days straight. [/QUOTE] Its’ called “being a New Yorker.” She makes me homesick and tingly in funny places. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/10 "2006-11-13T04:36:05Z")
Has anyone mentioned how hot she is? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/11 "2006-11-13T04:42:43Z")
Where can I find “pre-mainstream success” hardcore photos of this person? Ah, c’mon! You _know_ they’re out there! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/12 "2006-11-13T05:44:05Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] She’s hot, she cooks, she’s hot, she travels, she’s hot… [/QUOTE] She’s annoying, she cooks, she’s meh, she travels, she’s irritating… I’ll be really pissed if she is around long enough that I have to actively avoid TV. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/13 "2006-11-13T06:54:12Z")
I’m glad at the moment that she’s relegated only to the food channel over here, and though I \ the food channel, it will always get switched over to something else as soon as her Betty Rubble giggle shrills from my TV speakers. Unless I’m in the mood to shout at something. Then I leave her on and yell at the TV until she goes away. It’s cathartic. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/14 "2006-11-13T12:49:16Z")
> [@](#): > > She’s been Oprah-fied. Just like with Dr. Phil, who was everywhere for a while after Oprah used her mojo on him. It will die down, eventually. Because Richard Simmons eventually went away, too?? ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/15 "2006-11-13T13:06:41Z")
[Bolding mine] [QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] I’m glad at the moment that she’s relegated only to the food channel over here, and though I \ the food channel, it will always get switched over to something else as soon as her \*\*Betty Rubble giggle \*\* shrills from my TV speakers. Unless I’m in the mood to shout at something. Then I leave her on and yell at the TV until she goes away. It’s cathartic. [/QUOTE] _Betty_ Rubble??!? You’re too kind. I’ve always compared it to _Barney_ Rubble. I hate her so f’ing much, I can barely put it into words! I hate her Joker-like smile, her “I’m so cute, I can’t use real words” names for sandwiches (sammies) and EVOO (extra virgin olive oil). OH! And she says EVOO, to be “cute” and shorten it, BUT THEN SHE GOES ON TO SAY ‘EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL’!! Why bother saying EVOO?? And don’t get me started on ‘Yummo’! GAH!! I hate her! I hate that she’s from this area and I have to see her frying pan-sized face on Sutton’s and Price Chopper ads! ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/16 "2006-11-13T15:45:21Z")
Don’t hold back, **Bunny** , let us know what you _really_ think about her. 😉 I can tolerate her in small doses, but I get a “perky overload” after a while. She’s cute, but not hot, and some of her recipes leave me with a WTF expression. My wife gets a kick out of the way they use the camera angles to hide her rather healthy backside. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/17 "2006-11-13T18:14:08Z")
Judging by all the “she’s hot” comments, I guess I’m in the minority. For the love of god, the woman looks like the Joker’s sister. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/18 "2006-11-13T18:24:31Z")
Could be worse. Could be Sandra Lee. Susan ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-everywhere-rachel-ray/380168/19 "2006-11-21T19:23:53Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Has anyone mentioned how hot she is? [/QUOTE] Hot in an Hillary Clinton sort of way maybe :dubious: That womam is anoying and unattractive