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So there was “New Girl” goofball Zooey Deschanel slagging Thanksgiving dinner on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” the other night.
Zooey, who Kimmel said “radiates rainbows, unicorns and multi-colored Tootsie Rolls in everything she does,” isn’t a fan of turkey, stuffing or Grandma’s pumpkin pie because they are not aesthetically pleasing.
Oh, really? Do tell Zooey.
“Most of it is beige or gray, which I don’t find appetizing,” said the New Girl. “It’s a lot of beige…I have a problem with the color scheme.”
The FOX sitcom star, 33, doesn’t like roasted turkey because it’s beige, but she has no problem with chicken or duck. Stuffing is just beige “salty, wet, soggy bread.” Mashed potatoes are off-white, and pumpkin pie is an orange-beige, she wah-wah-wahed.
“I love Thanksgiving for the family togetherness,” spun Zooey, finally making some sense. “I don’t love the food, which is what most people love. I understand it’s controversssssssial.”
Now, could it be that ZoZo isn’t a fan of Thanksgiving dinner because, according to an interview with scribe Jada Yuan for New York maggie in 2011, she’s allergic to wheat, dairy and eggs?
Zooey on the cover of the Sept. 11, 2001 edition of New York magazine
“I am the worst person to ever eat with because I have all these stupid food allergies,” Deschanel dished to Yuan. “It wasn’t that many things, it was just all the things that are fun to eat — everything that I enjoy, like bread.”
Well, alrighty then. I think we have gotten to the bottom of this slam on America’s favorite food holiday – she can’t eat any of it!
Stuffing is bread with a couple of eggs tossed into the mix. Mashed potatoes contain milk and butter unless you live in a let’s-add-chicken-stock-and-Smart Balance kind of family. (I certainly don’t.) As for pumpkin pie, it is a nice dark orange hue if made properly, but it’s an allergy trifecta – eggs, flour and maybe cream.
So the only dishes that Zooey can eat when the Deschanel clan gets together on Nov. 28 are the turkey and, maybe, the vegetables. At least she’s one up on her big sis, “Bones” TV doc Emily Deschanel, a long-time vegan.
Emily Deschanel in ‘Bones’ on FOX
Are we feeling a little sympathy for Mama Deschanel or whomever hosts Zooey’s Thanksgiving dinner?
Later on in the conversation, the actress conceded to Kimmel that she likes turkey that is “done very well.”
“(Only if you get) the greatest cook in your family to spend all their time on the turkey. And that never happens,” said the “New Girl” who added she does like turkey that is smoked or deep-fried.
Could it be because the cook is too busy dealing with everyone’s food issues???
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With so many millions of Americans staring down raw hunger with every meal — or lack thereof — every single day, Ms. Deschanel would do best to find something else to whine about instead of a holiday menu that sadly won’t be celebrated in far too many U.S. homes this year.