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

[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.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually from the countryside and I can't stand her. The food she makes is loaded with calories but suspiciously absent of flavor. Her writing is really "oh gosh, lil' ol' me?!" twee.

I hate that she pretends to be "country" when she's just a shrewd marketer who is hustling her lifestyle hard core. It's really distasteful and hypocritical to me.

God forbid a non-urban woman be a shrewd, hardworking businesswoman. Blows out DCUM paradigms right out of the water.

SHE is urban. Her HUSBAND and his family and HIS money are not.

She grew up in an Oklahoma town, not a city. I'm amazed by the bitter nitpicking I see on here. I do remember when her blog became popular and read it for a while although the food didn't interest me. She has a tongue in cheek humor so her readers know she isn't being pretentious as she's never hid anything. She's always been frank about being the daughter of a surgeon with a house on the golf course and anyone with an ounce of sensibility knows the Drummonds are well off just from looking at the photos she posts all the time. Regardless of their wealth, they are an active ranching family and all family members are engaged in ranching activities. It's a hugely different lifestyle from the cul de sacs or the daily 9-5 grind of DC.

I did make one or two things and they were very rich, or in the case of the sheet cake, very sweet. But her demographic is middle America and that's just fine for them. Why does it bother you? These angry posts about Pioneer Woman reek of jealousy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually from the countryside and I can't stand her. The food she makes is loaded with calories but suspiciously absent of flavor. Her writing is really "oh gosh, lil' ol' me?!" twee.

I hate that she pretends to be "country" when she's just a shrewd marketer who is hustling her lifestyle hard core. It's really distasteful and hypocritical to me.

God forbid a non-urban woman be a shrewd, hardworking businesswoman. Blows out DCUM paradigms right out of the water.

SHE is urban. Her HUSBAND and his family and HIS money are not.

She grew up in an Oklahoma town, not a city. I'm amazed by the bitter nitpicking I see on here. I do remember when her blog became popular and read it for a while although the food didn't interest me. She has a tongue in cheek humor so her readers know she isn't being pretentious as she's never hid anything. She's always been frank about being the daughter of a surgeon with a house on the golf course and anyone with an ounce of sensibility knows the Drummonds are well off just from looking at the photos she posts all the time. Regardless of their wealth, they are an active ranching family and all family members are engaged in ranching activities. It's a hugely different lifestyle from the cul de sacs or the daily 9-5 grind of DC.

I did make one or two things and they were very rich, or in the case of the sheet cake, very sweet. But her demographic is middle America and that's just fine for them. Why does it bother you? These angry posts about Pioneer Woman reek of jealousy.

She did not grow up in Oklahoma.

[Anonymous]

It's her voice. nails on a chalkboard !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Are we concluding what the ingredients are in the food based on Google maps photos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Are we concluding what the ingredients are in the food based on Google maps photos?

Yes. See for yourself. You can find that same garbage in every low end grocery store and tourist trap cafe. Comes in frozen, made with the cheapest ingredients, thawed or heated before put on display. Total grifter move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, you all are mean. Agree her show is terrible and she doesn’t belong on TV. While I haven’t read it in forever, her blog was relatable and funny. She is a clever and witty writer and obv a smart business woman, and took all her own pictures for her cookbook. That is impressive to me. Not everyone does TV well and that’s ok. She should stick to writing

You think she wrote her blog herself? Aw, honey.

+1. Proles are so gullible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually from the countryside and I can't stand her. The food she makes is loaded with calories but suspiciously absent of flavor. Her writing is really "oh gosh, lil' ol' me?!" twee.

I hate that she pretends to be "country" when she's just a shrewd marketer who is hustling her lifestyle hard core. It's really distasteful and hypocritical to me.

God forbid a non-urban woman be a shrewd, hardworking businesswoman. Blows out DCUM paradigms right out of the water.

SHE is urban. Her HUSBAND and his family and HIS money are not.

She grew up in an Oklahoma town, not a city. I'm amazed by the bitter nitpicking I see on here. I do remember when her blog became popular and read it for a while although the food didn't interest me. She has a tongue in cheek humor so her readers know she isn't being pretentious as she's never hid anything. She's always been frank about being the daughter of a surgeon with a house on the golf course and anyone with an ounce of sensibility knows the Drummonds are well off just from looking at the photos she posts all the time. Regardless of their wealth, they are an active ranching family and all family members are engaged in ranching activities. It's a hugely different lifestyle from the cul de sacs or the daily 9-5 grind of DC.

I did make one or two things and they were very rich, or in the case of the sheet cake, very sweet. But her demographic is middle America and that's just fine for them. Why does it bother you? These angry posts about Pioneer Woman reek of jealousy.

It bothers me because she is ridiculous.
On her shows she tries Asian accents or New York ones. Not nice and not appealing. I can not stand the way she talks sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Are we concluding what the ingredients are in the food based on Google maps photos?

Yes. See for yourself. You can find that same garbage in every low end grocery store and tourist trap cafe. Comes in frozen, made with the cheapest ingredients, thawed or heated before put on display. Total grifter move.

So I just looked. There is nothing there that indicates it is "Sysco slop". In fact, there are pics of a full working kitchen with bags of flour and people rolling dough....

(I'm not a Pioneer Woman fan, but this is just the weirdest conclusion based on the weirdest "evidence.")

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Have you eaten there yourself?

[Anonymous]

OK if you are going to dissect Ree Drummond you have to discuss the family's connect to the Flowers of the Killer Moon:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/the-strange-but-true-story-of-the-pioneer-womans-link-to-killers-of-the-flower-moon

[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).

Made me LOL! I didn't like her until the pandemic just like I didn't like Hallmark movies. Now, I find both oddly comforting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm actually from the countryside and I can't stand her. The food she makes is loaded with calories but suspiciously absent of flavor. Her writing is really "oh gosh, lil' ol' me?!" twee.

I hate that she pretends to be "country" when she's just a shrewd marketer who is hustling her lifestyle hard core. It's really distasteful and hypocritical to me.

God forbid a non-urban woman be a shrewd, hardworking businesswoman. Blows out DCUM paradigms right out of the water.

SHE is urban. Her HUSBAND and his family and HIS money are not.

She grew up in an Oklahoma town, not a city. I'm amazed by the bitter nitpicking I see on here. I do remember when her blog became popular and read it for a while although the food didn't interest me. She has a tongue in cheek humor so her readers know she isn't being pretentious as she's never hid anything. She's always been frank about being the daughter of a surgeon with a house on the golf course and anyone with an ounce of sensibility knows the Drummonds are well off just from looking at the photos she posts all the time. Regardless of their wealth, they are an active ranching family and all family members are engaged in ranching activities. It's a hugely different lifestyle from the cul de sacs or the daily 9-5 grind of DC.

I did make one or two things and they were very rich, or in the case of the sheet cake, very sweet. But her demographic is middle America and that's just fine for them. Why does it bother you? These angry posts about Pioneer Woman reek of jealousy.

She did not grow up in Oklahoma.

Courtesy of wiki: Anne Marie, nicknamed Ree, grew up in a home overlooking the grounds of a country club in the oil town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,[6] with two brothers and a sister.[7] She graduated from Bartlesville High School in 1987[8] after which she left Oklahoma to attend college in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1991,[9] having first studied journalism before switching to gerontology.[10] After graduation she hoped to attend law school in Chicago,[10] but her plans changed unexpectedly when she met and married her husband, Ladd Drummond.[6] Her husband is a member of the wealthy Drummond ranching family.

Bartlesville is a town of 37k people about 47 miles north of Tulsa. While not exactly a small town it is still in a pretty rural part of America. Things are a bit more laid back out there.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.