After whoring out the link to my previous post on Rachael Ray and Michelle Malkin to family and friends, I’ve been getting a lot of hate toward Ms. Ray over IM and email. Is there a reason why many of you don’t like her? I admit I don’t know much about the woman, so I don’t have any reason to like her or dislike her. Could someone enlighten me on the positives and negatives of Rachael Ray? All I know is that she’s a cookbook author and a chef. Does she vocalise some sort of strange political or religious belief?
30 May 2008
17 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
I think she’s sexy and have watched her show just to drool over her.
Comment by joe — 30 May 2008 @ 12:31 am
Okay…
Pros:
Sexy, droolworthy
Cons:
None so far
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 30 May 2008 @ 12:32 am
Well, she’s happy, cute, and successful. I guess that’s pretty threatening to the lonely, homely, and job-hating. Some people have a beef (pun fully intended) over the fact that she is not a classically-trained chef, but a good cook with an infectious personality. She’s just too damn accessible to the common person.
Comment by ryot — 30 May 2008 @ 1:16 am
Okay…
Pros:
Sexy, droolworthy, personality, good cook, accessible to laycooks like me
Cons:
None so far
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 30 May 2008 @ 2:18 am
The only thing I find mildly annoying about her is that she seems to try too hard to be cute on her show. I’m pretty sure she’s been making up words and phrases since the show began, but it got a bit excessive. The hundredth time you hear “Yummo!” or her noting that you should use “Extra Virgin Olive Oil, or E.V.O.O. as I like to call it!” every time that she uses extra virgin olive oil in a show, it gets a bit annoying. I don’t really have any complaints though, she can cook better than I can and makes damn good money doing it. Living in Upstate New York is expensive, I know that first hand.
Comment by Patrick — 30 May 2008 @ 3:31 am
Oh, oh! I know!
People hate alliteration.
Proof: Ted Turner, Barry Bonds, Michelle Malkin.
Take that, alliterationists! Checkmate!
Comment by GDad — 30 May 2008 @ 8:05 am
i think the whole scarf thing is a mere excuse. they fired her cos she’s a fat vacuous airhead… and that’s orcah’s territory.
Comment by wOOt — 30 May 2008 @ 9:10 am
This was the exact reaction I had when I first heard about the story. I can’t remember the link now, but the tone was like, “we’re just looking for a way to beat up on Rachael Ray,” and her wikipedia article was so not helpful for an explanation as to *why* …
Comment by mollishka — 30 May 2008 @ 9:55 am
Here are my complaints about RR:
1: Her voice is pretty grating to me.
2: She’s fucking EVERYWHERE.
3: Her little catch-phrases (EVOO and Sammies and yumm-o etc).
Here’s what I like about her:
1: She’s really good at what she does – she’s like the Oprah of the culinary world.
2: The girl can cook.
3: She’s smarter than people give her credit for, and has a very good staff backing her.
4: The recipes in her magazine are actually pretty great. I got the gf a subscription, and almost everything we’ve made from her mag has been delicious.
She’s certainly not a terrorist. Annoying? Yeah. Terrorist? Come on.
Comment by jeremy — 30 May 2008 @ 10:00 am
GDad: That does sound like it can get anoying, however, every TV chef needs a gimmick or their shows are boring. BAM! I guarantee that she never says E.V.O.O. in her home kitchen.
Woot: I’m glad to see that I’m attracting commenters with the same intelligence level as an average Rational Response Squad groupie. I don’t see Ms. Ray as being fat. She may be a tiny bit heavy, but the brainless masculine demand that all women must be painfully skinny is degrading, disrespectful and damaging. I prefer a woman with meat on her bones, especially a chef. Never trust a skinny chef.
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 30 May 2008 @ 6:24 pm
Her book really hurts when someone bashes you in the skull with it. I speak from experience here.
Comment by BRW — 30 May 2008 @ 8:34 pm
BRW, it could be worse. Try getting pelted rapid-fire with all the works of Christopher Hitchens. You never realise how many books from one author you own until a deranged “friend” throws them all at you.
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 30 May 2008 @ 10:48 pm
There’s a voice/face disconnect. She has the voice of man and the face of a different one.
Comment by Kevin — 1 June 2008 @ 10:03 pm
Kevin:
I just laughed hysterically. Now everyone in the cafe hates me. Thanks.
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 2 June 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Somebody hates Rachie? She’s got the sexiest voice on the planet.
Comment by Aaron — 4 June 2008 @ 1:21 am
I think she’s really improved from her early days since doing her talk show. Yeah, she was super kitschy before. But she’s lost the over the top hand movements. She seems more at ease and relaxed.
And come on, at least she’s not fucking Sandra Lee. SHE is obnoxious. Rachael Ray actually has some talent. Sandra Lee is like a Betty Crocker succubus from the nether depths of Hell.
But Giada de Laurentiis is my queen regardless!
Comment by Herra Efahyggjumaður — 6 June 2008 @ 12:34 am
Herra, how do you pronounce your last name and where is it from?
Comment by Rev. Reed Braden — 6 June 2008 @ 1:59 pm