A few chuckles for the end of the week courtesy of The Pioneer Woman. The “little ol’ ranch wife” is on the road again. This time, she traveled to the Minneapolis area to fulfill her contractual obligations with Land O’ Lakes. First, this tweet from Ree’s latest meal ticket :
@thepioneerwoman visited the Test Kitchen yesterday! What would you say if you had the chance to meet her? twitter.com/LandOLakesKtch…
— Land O’Lakes (@LandOLakesKtchn) February 21, 2013
What would I say to The Pioneer Woman if I had a chance to meet her? That’s a rhetorical question, right? While blitzing the area with her ubiquitous bullshit, the Pioneer Woman also paid a visit to Twin Cities Live at the studios of the local ABC affiliate, KSTP. The Pioneer Woman was asked why she thought her food blog had surpassed others in popularity. We think this is what the cagey Pioneer Woman really wanted to say:
Eight months after I started my personal blog, I began posting food pics after seeing how great Deb Perelman’s were on her Smitten Kitchen site. I thought to myself, ’self, did you see how great girlfriend Deb’s photos looked…what a fabulous idea! I think I’ll…umm…borrow… that great concept and one-up her.’ So I decided to ‘incorporate’
wink, winkDeb’s idea, bought myself a bigger and better camera than Deb’s little ol’ Canon Rebel and posted 45 pics for every 1 pic Deb posted. Then I had Daddy Ladd grease the palms of publicists and sign me up at United Talent Agency. That’s how my blog became Numero Uno.
How is it two seemingly intelligent morning show hosts have fallen hook, line and sinker for this Internet hoax? Thanks to Suz for alerting us to this video:
And last but certainly not least, here’s the Tweet of the Week from certified Sheeple, Elishia Rousselle:
I would prob pee my pants if I won the iPad @thepioneerwoman is giving away. Pee my pants.
— Elishia Rousselle (@el_rousselle) February 21, 2013
I’ll pee my pants with joy when someone in the media finally and utterly exposes the pioneer witch for what she truly is! just saying…
That will be a wonderful day. Praying that it gets copied by all the other daily morning television shows as well as in print.
In case you all missed it Prevention Magazine 2013 has an ‘exlclusive’ this month
“Pioneer Woman Recipes – All the flavor without the fat”
Apparently Prevention magazine has ‘adapted’ six of her recipes – ‘with fewer calroies and less fat’.
The panfried spinach recipe seems so familiar….oh wait…it’s the recipe moste Italians have been using for over 100 years.
Damn, I guess that means I’ll have to stop buying Prevention magazine. I’ve always enjoyed it too, but naturally the little ol’ ranch wife’s publicists greased someone’s palm. Lady Ketchup won’t be happy until her ugly mug is everywhere.
And another damn. I no longer support Land-o-lakes or Bushes Bean. And now Prevention Mag!?
Is it really a “plug,” or maybe actually a slam. That her recipes are way too unhealthy. It would seem off if her publicists would want another national publication to point out that her recipes are unhealthy.
I have never browned by meatballs in butter. Is this a thing? This was one 13 minute commercial for Land O’Lakes. The hosts might know the truth about Ree but it ‘s all about the selling, the advertiser and the money. I loved how Ree said she would “go through a frozen tundra for Land O’Lakes.” Cringe!
I fixed chicken meatballs tonight….no butter…..anywhere. ,
Love, love, love your blog. I am so happy to find that I am not alone in my dislike of whatever brand of crap Ree Drummond is trying to push. She is “Country Kardashian”. All about me, me, me and nuts to the rest of you out there. Promote me,myself and I above all else. It really is sickening. I begrudge no one wealth, but I do find it disgusting when it is accomplished by duping the unwitting masses who swallow any bit of drivel that is put in front of them on TV or the internet. I can’t understand how people can be so gullible.
“Country Kardashian” indeed! LOVE
I will go back and reread the posts since I love this blog. I quit buying Land O Lakes, although my departure may not make a difference. I truly cannot stand Ree. She is a fake and thinks her sheet dont stink. I have posted before stating she needs a stylist and a new look with her hair, amongst other things.
Her recipes are not new or original and I can start a blog and post the same recipes minus a pinch of this or that and take pictures that my grandmother wrote years ago. I am sure she copied them from a cookbook.
But I also don’t believe that other celebrity chefs should be “pimping” themselves out for that almighty buck. Heck I own Gordons cookware and it is the best I ever owned. Giada is a chef and I love a lot of her recipes…. but now is a spokeswoman for a hair color product. I have been a hairdresser for 20 years… If anyone thinks she uses that product they are crazy. Everything Giada has ever done to her hair is professionally done.
I no longer purchase Land O Lakes products since they started using her as a spokesperson but I did see her butter invade our grocery shelves. My favorite was a week or so ago when her recipe for maple bacon showed up all over FB. I’m going to try to watch the video you shared but probably won’t make it through.
I was raised on Land O’ Lakes. My grandmother used it and until recently so did my Mother. Both of us stopped buying Land O’ Lakes anything when they brought this fraud on board. And when it comes to watching her videos, fortify yourself with a stiff drink beforehand.
Another reason to hate Land O’ Lakes: they have the contract to make “commodity cheese” to distribute among the indigent, particularly on Native American/American Indian reservations.
Ree’s endorsement is just one more Drummond crime against indigenous peoples. Ironic?
I just figured out what her face looks like – I got a monkey head pillow for Christmas all flat and plump. Take away that fake bake tan and she looks like Monkey Pillow. Yikes. Why would anyone want her as a spokes-anything? But you gotta give a ton of props to her marketing team – they are geniuses of their craft in promoting a genius of crap.
I don’t know if she out-and-out lies. But there is so much fuzzy/grey/skewed matter that it should be embarrassing for Ree and those in her circle. Sadly, I think it is not. I do think the ladies in the television interview were just doing their job. Ree was just doing her “act”. And we all know what “act” means….artificial, corny, trite.
By the way, thanks Suz for the link to this video.
Ree lies by omission and in my book, that’s still a lie. She has a little rehearsed speech she delivers every time she’s interviewed. Why these people don’t have the stones to ask her about the inconsistencies escapes me. One of these days though, there’ll be a Jane Clayson who will trip her up.
She is such a lying, pretentious piece of work. I can’t watch more of that video. She makes me sick.
I’d like to be an attorney and get her on the witness stand to bust her right and left. Literally every word out of her mouth is either a manipulation, misdirection, self-aggrandizing, narcissistic grandiosity, or a lie by omission.
How can anybody with a brain not see through that? Ugh. I can only think that the sheeple represent the part of the world that has a physical brain that they never use.
She’s so full of sh** her eyes are brown. Made it thru 5 minutes. Must replenish medicinal vodka now.
I think there are situations where it’s out and out lying … not lying by omission. I think for example that there is no way the Food Network came to her out of the blue clear sky and begged her to make a tv show. She built a camera ready tv kitchen in her spare house and then her publicists called the Food Network and pitched her to them. Do I have proof? No, but I mean, seriously … do you honestly believe the Food Network has to troll bloggers for material?
Many things she omits … like getting paid to babysit the mustangs, her background in cooking (none), where she gets her inspiration for recipes. But there are baldfaced lies on her website, too.
Who needs proof? That’s exactly how it happened. And remember, she’s the one who invited Bobby Flay for the throw down at her place. Ree was looking for a TV gig (remember The Ranchelor?) long before her publicists started brown-nosing Food Network. It simply escapes me what a liar she is and how she believes no one’s the wiser. If you look at the Twin City Live website, they have a dedicated link for those wanting to promote their products, in Ree’s case, the product being herself.
I barely remember the Flay thing … I stopped reading her blog a few years ago and I don’t watch reality tv. I think it was around the time she was re-doing the other house, but honestly I sort of deleted so much about ever having read her from my brain, I can’t guarantee it.
I do vaguely recall her talking about The Ranchelor several years ago, when I still read her now and then, but I thought she originally wanted Cowboy Josh to do it and then he happened to meet someone and was no longer single, so that went out the window and was never brought up again. I can imagine someone with more sense and less ego pointed out to her that she would have cameras in her family’s faces 24 hours a day and it might not be the best idea for her kids.
No, it was originally Thatcher Drummond, Ladd’s first cousin. Check my tabs for the link (sorry I’m too tired right now or I would do it for you). He’s actually a nice-looking guy, but his yellow sheet makes him look like another entitled Drummond pig.
I wonder where I got the Cowboy Josh idea? haha!
Either way, I remember that coming across to me as an idea she just blew her mouth off about on the blog without actually thinking it through or talking to anyone else about it, which then vanished when everyone else who would be involved and effected by it said “this is a terrible idea; please shut up”.
Earth to Millie
Ree may try to come across on her blog like she’s blowing off her mouth, but mind you, she’s one cagey broad. She built a television studio on her property, that takes a certain amount of time and planning. She was looking at the tv angle long before the Food Network gig fell in her lap. When The Ranchelor starring Thatcher Drummond didn’t pan out, she, her publicists and her Agent, went back to the drawing board and came up with Plan B: a cooking show.
Oh, wait, was that the Thanksgiving thing where she invited Trisha Yearwood too and they all made thanksgiving dinner, or something?
oh my god, there is not enough medicinal vodka to sit thru that…I will have to woman up, vodka up to finish that…she looked so bad, sounded even worse and what was up with her hair? a bumpit?? and her attempts at humor oh please quirky they called it? Really… and lies even she was having problems remembering what she said… thanks mw for posting these.
my bad…spelled it wrong…..sheesh
That is not a flattering picture of her. Is it a bad angle? Bad, excessive botox? Weight gain/bloat? I dunno, she is not looking great. And in older pics she really is quite pretty, despite the heavy black eyeliner.
The older pics were all photoshopped by Ree. This one wasn’t.
I just watched about 15 seconds of that video and I have to correct my previous comment to “definitely a metric asston of botox”. Holy shit. Her doctor does NOT know what s/he is doing … her entire head is frozen! Her lips are literally the only thing that moves when she talks.
Unfortunately the botox doesn’t do much for her. Looking at her, I would guess early 40s……….which is correct. Isn’t botox supposed to make you look younger?
It seems like an unfortunate combination of botox and weight gain/bloat in her face. The whole face is so frozen that the excess has nowhere to really go.
apparently Elishia “please don’t let me wet my pants” Rouselle is no longer on twitter or I am a numb nuts when it comes to search. I had a snark attack and wanted to give her a bit of the business. As to Ree?…..I have consciously tried to get her out of my head…..the complete and utter fakeness just makes my head explode. I am supposed to go on a photo shoot to Pawhuska this spring at the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve….first person that mentions her will get a bark from me…..
She’s still there and she has a blog too: you get one guess what kind it is.
http://therustedspoon.wordpress.com/ have fun:/
Her blog gagged me, but only because I am not down with hunting and she makes it clear her entire life revolves around killing things.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that quite a few of her ‘fans’ look to be in their late 20′s to mid 30′s?
By ‘her’ I’m referring to Ree….
Wanted to clarify.
I made it through the entire video and words cannot describe how awful she is on television. Interesting how she’s now telling her own version of Ina Garten’s story — she was approached by Food Network but didn’t want to do a show, they had many back and forth negotiations, finally they agreed to come to her and do the show on her turf, so she agreed to do it. Huh? That’s not exactly how it happened!
The two dippy hosts ought to be ashamed of themselves for all their fawning over Ree, but I think only the one in the white jacket is an actual professional television host. The lady in the red jacket apparently is a guest host of some sort. Maybe she won a contest? Personally, I’d ask for whatever second prize was, if first prize is sitting there listening to Ree and her BS for 15 minutes on live TV.
I don’t know how she sat there and told such a bald-faced lie with a straight face. “Oh, Food Network just happened to call to me,” blah, blah, blah. So Bobby Flay wasn’t invited by Ree after all for the big Thanksgiving throw down? And the professional tv studio—did it just build itself after “Food Network” came a courting? Which is it Ree?
She’s told so many lies, she can’t keep up with them. Ree Drummond is represented by United Talent Agency, maybe she didn’t call Food Network directly, but someone on her behalf did. What a freaking liar this woman is.
Don’t pee your pants, Elishia. Ipads are cool, but not that cool.
Okay, that first picture reveals all – she is Pure Evil! Tried (again) to watch the video, this time made it further into the 9 minute mark. That’s enough! The whole persona is too much, and the storied repetition is too much. The rest of the world can’t catch on soon enough.