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Friday, February 09, 2007

Rachael Ray Sauce

I'm cooking with my daughter and she tells me that someone should change the name of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to Rachael Ray Sauce. When I point out that Olive Oil is not only extremely appropriately named, it's also been around for a long time and seems to be doing pretty well as is. Undaunted, she points out that everyone also knows Rachael Ray and that she says EVOO all the time on her show and she always follows saying EVOO by saying it's Extra Virgin Olive Oil and she could save a lot of time if she could just call it Rachael Ray Sauce and everyone would know what she was talking about because it would say EVOO on it too... Yes, Gio often talks without punctuation and sometimes without breathing. At any rate, faced with the incredible onslaught of words, I had to back down. A few days after this, I'm walking through Macy's and sure enough... Yes, Rachael Ray's EVOO Olive Oil... I shit you not. Here...