Rachael Ray of Sunshine

Rachael Ray is the perky hostess of a Food Network show called $40 a Day. In each episode she travels to a different city and tries to eat well while spending less than $40 in one day.

My wife and I now have a standing joke. Whenever Rachael goes to take her first bite of something, one of us will ask, "Do you think she'll like it?"

On the Late Show with David Letterman they have a game called "Will it Float?" David and band leader Paul Schaeffer guess whether the night's random object will sink or float when they drop it in a tank of water. Sometimes it's pretty obvious which will occur, and sometimes you're surprised at the outcome. Sometimes it sinks, sometimes it floats, sometimes it floats but eventually sinks.

And so you'd expect with Rachael Ray. When she tries a meal at an eatery, what are the odds that she'll like what she gets? This is the game we play.

The joke is that she always likes it, accompanied by grunts of gastronomic orgasm. We have yet to see her take a bite, grimace, and say, "Ewww, this sucks!" Instead, it's either "mmmmmm" or "Yum-O!"

So here you have a cute girl who likes to eat cheap and is easily pleased. Her husband's a lucky guy.


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