Pioneer woman cooking show called out for racism against Asians

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n the middle of Season 2, Episode 3 of The Pioneer Woman, star Ree Drummond pulls a batch of “Asian hot wings” out of the oven, but her kith and kin wrinkle their noses at the sight of this game-day snack. One member of her crew asks, “Where are the real wings?” Another dude says, “I don’t trust ‘em.” Drummond laughs and says, “I’m just kidding guys, I wouldn’t do that to you.” Then she pulls a tray of good ole American Buffalo wings out of the oven, much to the delight of her boys, one of whom says, “Now those are some wings.”

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The offensive passage of this episode is more than just some off-the-cuff racist comments from Drummond’s guests: Earlier in the episode, the Food Network Star explains that her husband loves classic Buffalo wings and she wants to pull a prank on him by serving an Asian iteration. “I like to mess with my spouse, I can’t help it,” she says. The offensive conceit — that he and his college buddies would be revolted by Asian wings — was clearly written into the show before it was even filmed.

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