Ree Drummond, best known as the Pioneer Woman, has transformed her carefully curated brand of "Aw, shucks" homemaking into a Food Network show, a line of cookware available at only the finest Walmarts, and a combination restaurant and gift shop that currently averages around 6,000 customers each day. She's basically a Cracker Barrel with an expensive blowout and, now much like that gravy-soaked restaurant chain (which settled a racial discrimination lawsuit in 2004), Drummond has been accused of being racist at worst, culturally tone-deaf at best.Lynn Chen and Lisa Lee, the founders and editors of the Thick Dumpling Skinwebsite and podcast, discovered the scene in question during a Season 2 rerun of The Pioneer Woman. In the clip, Drummond gathers her husband, Ladd, and some of his button-down-wearing buddies around her counter and serves them a plate of spicy Asian hot wings. They respond by looking at her like she's given them something truly upsetting, like a cake iced with "#feminism" and garnished with a fondant IUD. (One man even eyes the wings warily and says "I don't trust 'em. I don't trust 'em" as a young boy claps his hand over his mouth in horror.)Then in the big reveal, she opens a second oven door and pulls out a plate of good ol' American wings. "I'm just kidding, guys! I wouldn't do that to you," she says with a smile. Then everyone is satisfied and happy, and the sun sets flatteringly on the Drummonds' 100-percent Real American ranch in Oklahoma, a ranch that is the 17th largest in the United States and is roughly half the size of the state of Rhode Island.Read more on MUNCHIES.
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