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Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee
priety zinta wrote:
> Nothing on this show is semi-homemade. > > Hell, nothing is even a tiny little bit homemade. Sandra's schtick > is to buy a bunch of overprocessed crap at the store and slap it > together. And there's nothing wrong with that. Lots of people > don't have the time or inclination to bake or cook from scratch. > They wouldn't sell cake mixes if people didn't buy 'em. > > I think my main problem with Sandra is her presentation. A bit of > context: Sandra is a bleached blonde who can't possibly eat any of > her own creations because she wears approximately the same size as > my six-year-old daughter. Her sets change for every show to match > her outfit. She has seven or eight Kitchen Aid mixers that she > never uses. Her husband is a very old real estate developer. She's > probably never used an electrical kitchen appliance in her life > and if she doesn't have a personal cook I'd be very surprised. > > So why does she have her own show? And more importantly: why is > she making a Kwanzaa cake? > > She made a Kwanzaa cake on one episode. It was filled with canned > apple pie filling. frosted with blue frosting, and had Corn Nuts > on it. Corn Nuts, people. > > She has a multitude of bad ideas. Tons of 'em. Like, for her > football show, she made something called a beergarita. It's a > margarita with beer in it. Yum! On the rare occasion she does > something clever, she talks it up like she'd thought of it > herself. Strips of waxed paper underneath the cake to keep the > frosting from ending up all over the plate? Julia was doing that > when you were in diapers, sweetie. > > This is one of those shows that makes me scratch my head because > so many other talented people have had shows on the Food Network > but have either moved on or been cancelled. The Tamales could eat > Sandra for breakfast. Heck, I'd watch an all-day marathon of the > Two Fat Ladies before I'll watch another episode of this overgrown > sorority girl. My bet is that the Food Network doesn't actually pay her. |
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