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“NO wire hangars or WHOLE MUSHROOMS!!!”
– Sandra Lee
Great! What would we ever do without Photoshop!
Hey, but that’s how they pronounce it at McDonald’s and in trailer parks…
THANK YOU.
geez. heh.
From myself and all the other Food Network loving baristas of the world, THANK YOU! Every time she says that I want to rip out her hair :(
She’s a dumbass! I bet her bf Andrew Cuomo doesn’t say “expresso”.
Hasn’t she ever watched Giada over enunciate every single Italian word?
oh god you people are such snobs. who cares how she says it. obviously her millionaire bf doesnt care. i have a lot of respect for her, she came a long way from basically not having anything as a child to who she is today.
Andrew?
@N – perhaps having come such a “long way” she could have picked up a book once in a while and learned proper English. Geez, louise.
@N, hey I defended Sandra. Trailer-speak is an accepted vernacular in some parts…
oh god you people are such sticklers for a TELEVISION FOOD host to pronounce the names of food and drinks correctly. we care how she says it because it is incorrect and since her job is to teach the viewers of the show about food, we want her and her staff to catch and correct themselves on this basic mistake. obviously her millionaire bf doesn’t care, in that we agree, he prob. is just staring at her fake boobage to care although he should as he is an Italian American and he should have a problem her pronunciation in much the same way a French dude would have her calling those breakfast rolls ‘crescents’. i have a lot of respect for her, I don’t she sold hangars on QVC, good for her,but don’t claim to be a cook when 80% of your food is store bought, she came a long way, so did a lot of people, (if they say the world is flat are we supposed to ignore that since they “came a long way”?) from basically not having anything as a child to who she is today, which is a mispronouncing, whole mushroom hating, buy a container of cool whip, some strawberrys and call that dessert, “semi-homemade”, lush that bought her way onto the Food Network.
She has come a long way, and maybe she’s admirable as a business person, but she’s a fucking slap in the face to aspiring chefs everywhere. No real cooking goes on in the Semi Homemade Kitchen. I watch her everyday because she happens to be scheduled between Ina Garten and Bobby Flay, and I shake my head in disbelief for half an hour everyday.
Jun . . . I suppose she should pronounce it “expresso” because isn’t the trailer park/McD’s crowd her target demographic?
@DesignerJeans: while I agree with your statement on the whole, I have to disagree about her boobs. They probably wouldn’t be as saggy if they were fake.
ZING!
She’s just like Pauler “Poopy” Deen: money doesn’t buy class. (Well, then again, maybe she could take some of her money and ENROLL in a class! ha)
THANK YOU! Her pronunciation has been driving me nuts. In this day and age where you can get an espresso on every corner there is no excuse for not pronouncing espresso correctly.
This is a humor website, why do people get so uptight? If you don’t like it find another website. We all need a good laugh, the economy is terrible and we can’t be depressed all the time.
@BobbyFlayFan. Yep. Her job is to make the laziest of home cooks feel like Julia Child.
Instead of ragging on her, you should direct some of the scorn Food Network’s way because those asshats are the ones you act as her puppeteer. They are the greedy bastards who inspire laziness, stupidity, and overall sloth in the kitchen by letting her preach.
It’s that Tuschman guy who thinks this is what we want to watch. Blame him for all for the garbage on the air.
Have not watched her enough to see if she pronounces sushi SOO-chi!
There is plenty of scorn to be passed out at that network, but at the end of the day, it is she that willingly tries to pass off her food fakery as a legitimate source of information for foodies, who, I would argue, simply want real cooking shows, by real chef hosts, that want to teach first, and this may be shocking to Suzie…. who do need their own line of pots and pans….
what is with this woman’s tablescape today? looks like shes set a table for a funeral…
The espresso thing is bad enough, but very time she says “vinegar-ette” I want to rip my hair out.
On today’s “funeral” themed show, even she couldn’t bring herself to drink her disgusting cocktail.
@N are you not familiar about the concept of this site?
Well, I say thanks for pointing it out because it drives me nuts when she says expresso. While you’re at it can you tell Pauler it’s pimento not pimenta?!
And while we’re on the subject, can you tell Ina it’s vanilla, not good vanilla. (or good mustard, or good chocolate, or good coffee, or good ground beef…….)
yes, i am familiar with it. thanks for asking. and i think its funny, i thought this post was funny. but to call people trailer trash is just rude. of course she should know how to pronounce it and to be honest im surprised no one on FN has corrected her. but jesus, chill out people. no need to be assholes
@sandra, haha if this economy is so bad and you need a good laugh, maybe you shouldbe be looking at stupid websites and making comments during the day and actually look for a real job.
Funny how some of you rag on her about her mispronouncing “espresso”, and then you rag on Giada for pronouncing her Italian terms correctly. Many of you call it over-enunciating, when Giada is just pronouncing the terms right. Just accept the fact that none of us is perfect. I’m sure there is at least one word you all do not pronounce correctly or the same as the majority. Also, a lot of you don’t know how to spell or proofread on here, so just accept the fact that we are human. No matter how much education one receives, that person is not going to ever be perfect. Now just laugh at the post, and go on with your semi-imperfect (pun intended) lives. :D
@Sarah,
No need to be rude. Most people here happen to have a job, and simply read and write comments at work. Don’t jump to conclusions and assume that these people do not have jobs.
its a humor site – there is enough to be picked on, one post at a time :)
Thanks Shadowy!
@Sarah you have no idea who I am or what I do. Why are you so rude?
Ehh, not one of FNH’s better postings. eXpresso is technically incorrect, but it’s not that big a deal, really. It’s a common mispronunciation, to the point that it’s almost a dialect term, like johnnycake (journey cake), or Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch).
Sunny Anderson pronounces plantains as plantins. And Guy calls tater tots tater nuggets.
Sunny Anderson’s pronunciation of plantain as plantin drives me up a wall. Rachel Ray pronounces it plontain. I would imagine there are a lot of real chefs who work behind the scenes at the network and they probably know a lot more than these hosts. How much do you want to bet that they don’t correct them because they think it’s funny? And someone needs to tell Guy Fieri (who pronounces his own last name as if he were Giada) that it’s balSAMic, not baSALmic.
@ Stewie, sorry but it is a big deal. She’s adding a sound to the word that isn’t even there. I can understand pronouncing an X with an S sound which happens in some cases, but not the other way around. What it boils down to is PURE UNEDEDUCATED LAZINESS and if there ever was a candidate for this behavior it’s most definitely Sandra Lee. She most certainly needs to “dial down” her dialect if she wants any respect at all.
my God, I spelled “uneducated” wrong.
@ Jenn. That was funny!
It’s not a double standard to go after Giada. She goes out of her way to over enunciate things, showing-off to let us all know how clever and authentic she is. Although I’ve heard a number of Italians say she not pronouncing thing right.
Sandra-Lee is simply slurring her words.
Yay! You tell her, FNH. She can’t pronounce “Espresso” correctly due to all the cocktails she’s been drinking.
Wait, it’s not pronounced Expresso? Cause that’s the only way I have heard it pronounced. Probably the worst post I have seen on this site, just because Expresso is a generally accepted pronunciation. Next are we going to go after people who pronounce Bruchetta Bru-Shet-A?
I’m with Sandra. @Sarah should drink a beer or something and lighten up. She does realize this foodnetworkHUMOR.com, right? Take that soapbox so ewhere else!
I think everyone is forgetting the most important fact: we’re all Korean here and that’s all that ever matters. :DDDD
I’d be willing to admit to the double standard that I’ll pick on Sandra Lee for stuff that I would not care about from other FN stars. They are not the anti-christ and she is. Simple as that.
That photo, like many others of her photoshopped pictures, makes her look just like Jenna Elfman. Someone she does not in any way resemble in reality.
“Expresso is a generally accepted pronunciation.”
Only to people that are too lazy to learn the correct way.
Expresso = strong coffee, really really fast.
:-D
Mars Capone. *shudder*
Re Giada and misprouncing things:
As an EYE-talian myself, I can tell you that there are numerous different Italian dialects–much like there are in America—including hillbilly Italian. :) As a result, there are several ways of pronouncing words in Italian, just like there are usually more than one way of pronouncing words in English. Remember, Italy wasn’t always one country; it was once a collection city-states/regions. This means that people from different parts of the country developed some local habits that vary (sometimes significantly) across regions (as does the food!).
Yup, dumb…dumb…dumb…..
(She still has nice boobies tho….)
Sorry…the only time I see her is….. here!
LOL!
There’s nothing dumber than ignorance repeated by the ignorant.
Expresso is an equally valid term for the beloved coffee type.
Has anyone on this (amusing and must-read) humor site every been to Europe, particularly France, Spain, Belgium or Portugal?
Jeez.
Say what you want about Lee, but get your act together first, linguistically, commenting rednecks.
Yea well Giada’s boobs disagree with that statement!
Wellllllllll…. eSSScuuussssee meeeeeeeee….
espresso |eˈspresō|
noun ( pl. -sos)
strong black coffee made by forcing steam through ground coffee beans.
ORIGIN 1940s: from Italian (caffè) espresso, literally ‘pressed out (coffee).’
USAGE The often-occurring variant spelling expresso —and its pronunciation |ikˈspresō|—is incorrect and was probably formed by analogy with express.
(I know, I know. I need to get a life, but I just can’t let this go. :)
Wellllll eSSSSScuuuusseeeeeeee me!
The next time Sandra Lee does her show in Yourup, Fronce, EsSpain or Beljim, I’ll be sure to NOT correct her.
4 Borders Pundit
That would be oui, si, oui/ja (are you on the flemish or waloon side of Belgium/) and only a “yes its my on to do for properly visting” for Portugal which would be “SIM” even if I fala Portugnol.
I can assure you that I have ordered Espressos in several European cities, including Italy (that would have different local dialects e.g. Florentine vs. Venetian vs. Roman) and I’ve always pronounced is ESpresso not EXpresso. The guys at Bar Ricardo in Florence would have thrown the book at me, literally. They made killer white truffle ham sandwiches at that Bar, I really feel like having one right now!
It sounds like I am fortunate to have never seen Sandra Lee’s show. I wish people would learn that sriracha is not pronounced “sir-ra-chee.”
HOW ABOUT VIDALIA ONIONS?? Flabby Flay says it wrong all the time!!! it is pronounced VIE DALE YA
Aunt Sandy isn’t lazy or stupid for mispronouncing espresso any more than people are lazy or stupid for saying “ax” instead of “ask.”
Perhaps not lazy, but definitely ignorant and uneducated. Sandra Lee is one of the worst offenders on TFN. She says expresso for espresso, chipolte for chipotle, vineger-ette for vinaigrette, and uses the word marinade as a verb. She comes across as someone with barely an 8th grade education. What an embarrassment for TFN (not to mention herself). But then, the undereducated masses appear to be TFN’s target audience these days.
Let me be clear…espresso vs. expresso…there is no “x” in the Italian alphabet.
4 Borders Pundit must have consulted the ever-popular, all-knowing Wikipedia as the source.
At first, I thought she was going for a play on words (“eXpresso” because it was semi-homemade and quick?), but then I remembered how she mispronounces so many other words (russipe, melk, aiggs, aqoworium, etc.), and decided I was giving Aunt Sandy way too much credit.
“people are lazy or stupid for saying “ax” instead of “ask.”
Yes they are.
Exactly where are people learning/ unlearning all this crapola?
@FirstBoot, my god, you cant be that unintelligent…can you?
EXpresso is one of the SHANDRA-ISMS that really makes my ears bleed. Others include: MELK, ROSE (which she uses in place of the word ROAST), MARSCAPONE; and that doesn’t even include the misuse of culinary terms. If you leave chocolate in a microwave too long you will SCORCH it, not SEIZE it. She’s such a train wreck.
Yes, I think that’s something we can all agree on. She *is* a train wreck.
Cut the girl some slack – LOL! Sandra Lee missed most of her English classes because she was attending too many frat parties when she was at U of Wisconsin. She probably never made the Dean’s List, but her choices prepared her for a career as the “Semi-Ho” who never serves a meal without an appropriate cocktail or tablescape.
Can’t get on her case for melk; that’s a regional thing. But hell yeah on the rest of it. And while we’re at it, could someone drop a hint about her outdoor grill? That is the dirtiest, scuzziest thing, it’s DISGUSTING!!! Try cleaning it once in a while; just because it gets hot enough to kill germs doesn’t mean you never clean it.
And a “semI” (eye) is a truck. Semi (Sem-ee) is the first part of the name of her insipid show. But who’s noticing….?
I am of trailer park origins (and retain much of that culture) and I find Sandra Lee to be very offensive. So what does that say?….
:)
This reminds me of a crime show I watched a few days back. The detective said, “He was drawn to her like a mosquito to a light bulb.” I thought, “Don’t you MEAN a moth to a flame?!”
i think aunty sandy actually has a speech impediment—of the paula abdul variety (i.e. induced by copious amounts of prescription drugs and alcohol). In addition to switching letters around (marscapone) she is always putting the emPHAsis on the wrong syllABle. she also lingers on her l’s a little too long. i don’t know why food network continues to support her—she’s peddling really unhealthy stuff.
god she is so obnoxious
Can anyone tell me what happened to Jim O’Conner? he was most pleasant showing how things were made, and touring around this great nation of ours. Are his shows in re-runs? Is he making any more? I know he’s not a chef, but his information shows were interesting and he was easy on the eyes, unlike a dozen or so chef/hosts that are on now.
What can be loathed more than saying expresso, I axe you?
LOL with the cocktails, table setting, and ‘expresso’ mispronunciation comments. That show is horrible. Sorry, not personal, she seems like a sweet genuine lady but has no passion for food… good fresh food.
From Anthony Bourdain on “Semi-homemade” show: “She makes her audience feel good about themselves. You watch her on that show and you think, “I can do that. That’s not intimidating.” All you have to do is waddle into the kitchen, open a can of crap and spread it on some other crap that you bought at the supermarket. And then you’ve done something really special. The most terrifying thing I’ve seen is her making a Kwanzaa cake. Watch that clip and tell me your eyeballs don’t burst into flames. It’s a war crime on television. You’ll scream.”
The things that make me go nuts watching ‘Aunt Sandy’…her CONSTANT use of the phrases “pretty little…”, “sweet little”, “cute little…” GAG! Also, yes, she drags out her “l” and her “r”‘s in words WAY too much! It’s so annoying. AND: has anyone else noticed her pronunciation of the word strawberry? She says straw-burry, not straw-berry (rhyming with scary)…She seems genuinly nice I guess, but her quirks are awful.
oops! and here I misspelled genuinely, haha. I forgot another pet peeve: does she really need to be so matchy-matchy with everything, from the kitchen salt & pepper shakers, right down to her clothes, the dishes, etc….there is way too much matching going on, it looks unrealistic and silly. And MUST we have the nieces and nephews on so often?
[...] about pathetic! I don’t have access to the clip online, but I had to vent to someone. It’s espresso, people! The man’s allegedly a “world famous” [...]
Can I smack her on the ass? Please, oh please !!