What is it about the Pioneer Woman that annoys me so much?

[Anonymous]

The name alone has always turned me off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I read her blog when it first started, but I don't follow her now. She definitely appeals to a certain demographic and is wildly popular.

I have family in Oklahoma and I actually met her at a Barnes and Noble in Oklahoma many years ago. Her story was that she was a city girl in LA who became an accidental country girl after she met her husband. She always talked about how out of place she felt living in the middle of "nowhere" but the reality is she grew up only about 30 minutes away from where she lives now.

I read her blog regularly in the early days and she was always upfront about being from Oklahoma and there was a bio section on the blog that described it neatly. She was a town girl who married a rancher. And she spent some years in LA and she did talk about visions of being a glamorous urbanite only to end up living in the middle of nowhere, aka ranch country. It's her humor, including the name of the blog.

I am not a "fan" but some of you are trying to turn her into a a different persona that isn't quite justified.

Ree is very smart, but this persona is definitely her shtick. It's why so many people, even on this thread, think she's "urban" and not from Oklahoma. She's a fantastic business woman and married to one of the wealthiest ranchers in the US, but she'd like you to believe she's just a busy rancher's wife tasked with the job of wrestling up food for hungry cowboys. It's good marketing, but all those little half truths also rub people the wrong way when it is portrayed as being the reality of her life. Being a "city girl" turned pioneer woman is a much more interesting story than being a woman from small town Oklahoma who marries a rancher from another nearby small town. She is a city girl in the same way that Hilaria Baldwin is from Spain.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I read her blog when it first started, but I don't follow her now. She definitely appeals to a certain demographic and is wildly popular.

I have family in Oklahoma and I actually met her at a Barnes and Noble in Oklahoma many years ago. Her story was that she was a city girl in LA who became an accidental country girl after she met her husband. She always talked about how out of place she felt living in the middle of "nowhere" but the reality is she grew up only about 30 minutes away from where she lives now.

I read her blog regularly in the early days and she was always upfront about being from Oklahoma and there was a bio section on the blog that described it neatly. She was a town girl who married a rancher. And she spent some years in LA and she did talk about visions of being a glamorous urbanite only to end up living in the middle of nowhere, aka ranch country. It's her humor, including the name of the blog.

I am not a "fan" but some of you are trying to turn her into a a different persona that isn't quite justified.

Ree is very smart, but this persona is definitely her shtick. It's why so many people, even on this thread, think she's "urban" and not from Oklahoma. She's a fantastic business woman and married to one of the wealthiest ranchers in the US, but she'd like you to believe she's just a busy rancher's wife tasked with the job of wrestling up food for hungry cowboys. It's good marketing, but all those little half truths also rub people the wrong way when it is portrayed as being the reality of her life. Being a "city girl" turned pioneer woman is a much more interesting story than being a woman from small town Oklahoma who marries a rancher from another nearby small town. She is a city girl in the same way that Hilaria Baldwin is from Spain.

I don't care about how she is a triumph of marketing this persona and outsourcing pretty much all the work of her life (writing the blog, developing recipes, homeschooling -- she does none of that) except to the extent that other women without staffs think they ought to be able to pull off something similar despite not having her marketing background or her resources.

I don't care that Hilary isn't Spanish. I mind very much that she tries to claim that she understands racism because people think she's her kids' nanny and that she claims one can get a slammin' bod by doing some pushups off the bathroom sink.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Her food is just so gross. Basic and unhealthy and literally everyone has those recipes at home. I agree with OP - cooking shows should teach something new in prep or presentation. Not how to make a freaking sheet cake.

Google Maps her famous Pioneer Woman Mercantile store in Pawhuska, OK. Looking at photos of the bakery case, the food appears to be just be Sysco slop, and the merch appears to be cheap Chinese knick-knacks. She's a grifter.

There, do you feel better now?

If you present yourself as a great hometown cook the least you could do is operate a real bakery making fresh items with real butter in your mercantile shop — instead of serving unthawed or heated crap that came in the back door frozen.

What is your evidence for this?

[Anonymous]

Good grief, who cares? I don’t watch the show, read the blog, or buy her merchandise, but I found her recipe for make-ahead mashed potatoes on the Food Network website once, and they are a holiday staple for me. It’s been a game-changer to make mashed potatoes ahead of time and have them be amazing when heated up, especially on Thanksgiving. She also has a good recipe for Burgundy mushrooms that I modified a bit, but it’s a great basic recipe that produces something delicious that can cook on the stovetop all day and frees up oven space.

Like everything else in life, I take the good and leave the bad/whatever doesn’t interest me. It’s weird that you guys are so invested in picking apart someone if you don’t like them. If you don’t like her, why give her so much attention and real estate in your brain? Weird.

[Anonymous]

I love her. Her recipes are perfect for my picky eater. I’m first generation American and don’t have a grandma who made sugar cookies or Mac and cheese. Her receipts have simple ingredients, are easy to make and my kid will eat them. I don’t mind her cowgirl schtick because I realize that anyone who has a show on tv is probably faking it. Plus, I think she’s attractive in that all American way that is very exotic for me.

[Anonymous]

How she says potatoes. “Pah-tay-duhs”

[Anonymous]

She seems too smug. I like molly yeh - the musician turned farmer lady much more- girl meets farm.

[Anonymous]

Laughing after everything she says. Very annoying!,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laughing after everything she says. Very annoying!,

You don’t have to watch the show, you know.

I don’t care how she laughs. She has some good recipes that have become family favorites, like Burgundy Mushrooms. Like any other chef, it’s hit-or-miss; I never got the love for the Chicken Spaghetti. But whatever, I like most of her recipes that I’ve tried. I think Giada is annoying, but I like some of her recipes, too. Ina can be a little smug, but I love her recipes.

[Anonymous]

I am not a big fan but she has some good recipes. She specializes in the kind of food DH loves and sometimes it’s nice to have a comforting dish. I find the name “Pioneer Woman” cringey and don’t like the way the show makes it appear her entire role is to support her hardworking man by cooking. But more power to her if she found a way to make a living. She’s no more cringey than all the parenting and fitness influencers on SM. They’re all fake too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So here's the thing: as a businesswoman, I respect the hell out of Ree. She NEVER breaks character. People can write shit about her, leave crappy comments, and she never ever does that thing many bloggers do where they get defensive and then write posts that basically only respond to criticisms. She has about 10 topics she writes about and she ONLY writes about those topics but somehow, the site keeps chugging along year after year on stories of Charlie, the calves, her kids getting bigger, Ree's pants not fitting, and MM's butt. She never discusses her real life or anything of substance yet she's built an empire. So good for her!

That being said, she's a millionaire who poses as a folksy down home gal. She was rich before the site took off and is even richer now. (Again, I don't begrudge her that, and I think she's a great role model for her daughters in that she built something of her own even though her husband's family is loaded and she didn't need the money/work.) Her recipes are gross and almost all are cribbed from church cookbooks from the 80s. She is not a personality who translates well to tv so she comes off as stiff and awkward. She seems to have a strict script that she has to stick to no matter what because she can't deviate and go with the flow and riff and joke easily.

Her schtick is dated and corny, which is also why it's not going to appeal to many of us, but to the large chunk of the country who uses Pinterest for dinner ideas and thinks casseroles/Crock Pot meals using 4 cans of soup and cheese is a reasonable dinner, she's very appealing and relatable.

Her stuff at Walmart is absolutely hideous IMO, but it's a rip-off Anthropologie aesthetic at Walmart prices which is what her target audience can afford and access. So again, smart lady with the way she chooses to diversify her businesses.

Which recipes are casseroles or crock pot meals using canned soup?

Honey almost all of her recipes require a canned soup. She had one recipe that was literally called 8 Can Soup and it was 8 cans of soup, canned chili and canned veggies. And cheese. Her apple dumplings use Mountain Dew for the sauce. I'm not saying she doesn't have some recipes that use fresh stuff but it's her thing. Her "best lasagna ever" uses Kraft Parmesan in a green can.

We get it, you are a "foodie." Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't dislike her, but the show gets old fast since many of the recipes are similar, as are the silly "plots" (oh, the menfolk and kids are out on the ranch putting up a fence, gotta rustle up a hearty casserole).

Is this the first lifestyle show you have ever watched?

[Anonymous]

Pioneer woman is an ultra rich woman, not a pioneer. She grew up on a golf course and married a many generations landowner in a family that got the land in shady ways, literally out of Killers of the Flower Moon.

[Anonymous]

so why are you reactivating a thread from 2015?? If you don't like it, it's gone? Why do you have to dredge up old stuff?