Do you think Rachel Ray was hired for her abilities, or for her looks?

[Deja Q]

:(

:yoiks:

[WindRavenX]

1. Am I the only one that loves her?

I think she's adorable...

:hide:

[Deja Q]

3. I adore her and think she's got talent. But she looks real good too,

and television of this era generally prefers to put looks well above talent.

[WindRavenX]

7. I dunno...that doesn't explain Emeril

;)

[LSK]

9. explains Giada thou

;)

[Pierre.Suave]

31. Hell yeah

SHE is HOTTTTT. I wouldn't mind eating any of her food either.

[Deja Q]

16. There's the exception to every rule, but it lends cred to what I had said,

she was hired for her ability to cook (though her pizazz isn't exactly overlooked either...)

[bigwillq]

6. I love her.

Think she's a talent too.

[TommyO]

20. No, I love 30 Minute Meals

but do believe that she has become a bit over-exposed which is leading to the backlash against her.

[bigwillq]

23. That happens to most people

who make it big so quickly....the backlash is inevitable.

[GOPisEvil]

2. She was hired because she's good on tv, and was in the right place and time.

[LSK]

4. because she can eat at fancy restaurants all day and not gain weight

[Deja Q]

17. She must exercise a lot.

:D

[Skittles]

41. ??

she is not thin

[TommyO]

49. And her weight has fluctuated

much like mine :grr:

[LSK]

50. she is not fat either

[bigwillq]

5. A little bit of both

and there isn't anything wrong with that.

Same could be said about Giada.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i doubt it was her looks, because she istn a stunner. shes a pretty girl

but most people probably know someone in real life who is prettier.

i cant speak to her ability though, since i havent really watched any of her shows to completion.

[TommyO]

21. She has the "girl next door" looks, and a great smile

and also has some great quick meals, some of which I've actually made (in less than an hour!)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. We watched this show last weekend about her life...

And she got her job because of her abilities, not because of her looks. She used to have REALLY BAD hair.
Duckie

[zanne]

11. Who the hell is Rachel Ray? nt

[MissB]

12. Other: Her hands.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Neither

:puke:

[idgiehkt]

22. lol

I thought this thread was a joke...guess not.

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

40. Perception is a dangerous thing.

:evilgrin:

Don't worry, the only joke around here is me. :P

[idgiehkt]

46. The only time

you are a joke is in those great silly photoshops you post of yourself sitting on bird perches and stuff, silly. You are a good egg. :loveya:

[GoneOffShore]

26. I'm with you.

In fact,

:puke: :puke:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. Trick question.

Her looks give her the ability to keep an audience glued to their TV sets.

[Nicole]

15. I'd say her abilities.

I think she has the ability to draw in a younger crowd.

[KamaAina]

18. We're talking about a woman who once rode the streetcar up St. Charles "Street".

You may have heard me screaming, "Avenue, you :dunce: ! Avenue!" all the way on the mainland.

I won't even discuss what she did with Hawai'i place names...

[GoneOffShore]

24. Yet another reason to question the Food Networks hiring of her.

Her extraordinary lack of knowledge about tipping, place names and culinary traditions.

:puke:

[bigwillq]

25. Got to put some blame on the producers

editors, etc...for not picking up those mistakes as well.

[GoneOffShore]

28. Sure, but it still doesn't explain why people love her nonsense.

I still love Tony Bourdains' take on her.
http://blog.ruhlman.com/2007/02/guest_blogging_.html

RACHAEL: Complain all you want. It’s like railing against the pounding surf. She only grows stronger and more powerful. Her ear-shattering tones louder and louder. We KNOW she can’t cook. She shrewdly tells us so. So...what is she selling us? Really? She’s selling us satisfaction, the smug reassurance that mediocrity is quite enough. She’s a friendly, familiar face who appears regularly on our screens to tell us that “Even your dumb, lazy ass can cook this!” Wallowing in your own crapulence on your Cheeto-littered couch you watch her and think, “Hell…I could do that. I ain’t gonna…but I could--if I wanted! Now where’s my damn jug a Diet Pepsi?” Where the saintly Julia Child sought to raise expectations, to enlighten us, make us better--teach us--and in fact, did, Rachael uses her strange and terrible powers to narcotize her public with her hypnotic mantra of Yummo and Evoo and Sammys. “You’re doing just fine. You don’t even have to chop an onion--you can buy it already chopped. Aspire to nothing…Just sit there. Have another Triscuit…Sleep….sleep….”

[idgiehkt]

29. "Wallowing in your own crapulence on your Cheeto-littered couch..."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[bigwillq]

30. Good for him.

It's his opinion and he could say what he wants too.

Some people think it's true, some do not.

it's just a matter of taste, so to speak.

[GoneOffShore]

19. She has no abilities - She is a corporate shill

No knife skills - I wait for the day when she does a SNL Julia Child on live TV . :evilgrin:
The worst hygiene I've ever seen outside of my MIL's kitchen - using a knife and cutting board for poultry and then immediately using the same tools WITHOUT WASHING OR WIPING DOWN!!! for vegetables. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
No idea of flavour profiles except those that are given to her by a production team. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
No knowledge of ingredients - particularly egregious being her use of extra virgin olive oil to saute in, because its flavour is destroyed when heated to that degree. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
Her use of processed food. :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
Her total lack of knowledge of professional kitchen work ethic.

In the words of Gareth Blackstock, "I hate her with a passion she can only dream of!!"

[Maddy McCall]

27. What abilities? What looks?

Frankly, I haven't figured out why she hit the big time.

[Skittles]

33. ditto

I have to turn that motor mouth off immediately

[Maddy McCall]

36. Gawd.

Have you ever seen her daytime show?

She thinks that she is just the niftiest, hippest person in the world. She looks into the mirror before she goes on set and says, "Rachael, baby, you are soooo cool."

I don't like her. Conceited no-talent bobblehead.

[Skittles]

39. no, I don't watch her

I have caught her while surfing - the woman doesn't even pause to take a breath; she gives me a headache very quickly

[Maddy McCall]

42. She makes me gag.

I can't figure out if it's her sucky cooking (which means opening cans and dumping all the shit together, and then hollering "ta da!") or her babbling.

But yeah, she's irritating. :scared:

[Hotler]

34. The only thing she did well ...

was say "E.V.O.". She left cheap tips on $40.00 a day

[Maddy McCall]

35. She should be imprisoned with that TB guy being discussed in GD.

For her shoddy tipping. If I were a waitress, I'd through the 67 cents back at Rachael. And I'd say, "Thanks, skank."


:)

[Skittles]

44. she left a 67cent tip?

that's just criminal; hell, I give the Sonic gal a buck when I get a shake and fries

[Maddy McCall]

45. I give em a buck just for bringing me a big Route 44 coke.

Mmmmm...Sonic.

:D

[Hotler]

47. Throwing a tip. Let me tell you a story.

Thirty years ago I was dating a lady and we went out to dinner almost all the time. One evening we had horrible service. It got worse all through the meal. My girl friend said let her pay. She put the money down and said let's go. Out we went and about the time we were across the street almost to the truck the waitress came out the door and yelled here's your tip back and threw it at us. I Think Tina left her about $0.67. It was priceless.

[Deja Q]

37. She knows how to hold vegetables and she is rather cute...

:)

[Pierre.Suave]

32. Well

I am not a kitchen show critic, nor can I cook. So i dont know if she has got skillz or not.

I am a guy though, and I do know that I do not find her all that attractive. She doesn't seem all that intelligent to me, and ditsiness turns me off.

Giada on the other hand, HOLY SHIT that woman is hot.

edited for this hilarious photo...



What I find amazing now that I have thought about this some is this, Giada has a huge following, men know who she is, men know who rachel ray is because she was in Maxim/Stuff/FHM/ etc...

That has to say something about both their beauty and talent.

[Deja Q]

38. .

:applause:

As for the pic:
:rofl:

[Redstone]

43. For her cupcakes.

Redstone

[HughBeaumont]

51. Eggs,

That is all.

[Orsino]

48. Looks is an ability...

...on American TV.

[HughBeaumont]

52. Da junk in Da trunk.

See, when the recipe isn't great, at least I got that.

:evilgrin:

[Redbear]

53. Its her personality.

At least thats what I like.

[GRLMGC]

54. I don't think she's a bad cook

She has some interesting ideas. She's just so damn annoying!