A Friday Chat on Oprah’s Favorite Things

Also, Neiman Marcus sells frozen food now.

Neiman Marcus Is Selling Frozen Collard Greens For $66 Plus Shipping https://t.co/grnRizoaXA

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MEGAN: How. Who is buying $66 collard greens?

NICOLE: I wouldn’t buy frozen food from a high-end clothing store. That’s like mixing their brands.

MEGAN: They also sell a $65 broccoli cheese casserole.

NICOLE: That’s so weird.

MEGAN: They sell so much food!

NICOLE: Are frozen “budget dinners” a thing now? Expensive budget dinners?

MEGAN: Hmmmm. Maybe? Rich people are weird. Although i just did the math on this brisket dinner, and it actually works out okay:

Complete Brisket Dinner

NICOLE: What is that brisket thing, is Neiman Marcus trying to be KFC?

MEGAN: Hahahhaha I have no idea. But if you do the math, it’s like $29 a head, which is how much i have paid for bbq at bougie places here in Brooklyn.

NICOLE: Comes with “Oma’s cheesy potatoes.” I guess “Grandma” doesn’t have the right ring to it.

MEGAN: Their Thanksgiving dinner is also actually kinda reasonable. I’m shocked.

Exclusive Complete Holiday Turkey Dinner, For 8 people

I forgot about how wonderfully horrid Neiman Marcus’s holiday gift guide is.

NICOLE: There’s also Oprah’s Favorite Things:

Oprah's Poinsettia Flower Pot Cake

MEGAN: OH SHIT. I love Oprah’s Favorite Things!

NICOLE: What is with all of this bougie food, though. I was making flower pot cakes in Girl Scouts, you need instant pudding and Oreos. What’s the right term for this stuff: gentrified comfort food?

MEGAN: I think the rise of, like, haute Southern cuisine.

NICOLE: Yeah. Who’s the target demo, though? Is this for young people who have $$$ and remember their parents putting together Hamburger Helper, or is it for older people who have $$$?

MEGAN: The target demo is like, people who grew up eating it but now have $ and wanna flex a little and CAN so they do.

NICOLE: Also, I want many of Oprah’s Favorite Things.

MEGAN: I want almost all of them. A lot of her stuff isn’t that $$ though, like this dumb pasta pot that I would actually be very pleased with:

Bialetti 7265 Trends Collection 5 Quart Pasta Pot, Charcoal

NICOLE: I love that her gloves come with three gloves in case you lose one.

Verloop Trio Touchscreen Gloves

MEGAN: That is brilliant, honestly.

NICOLE: I am also digging those “collected works” book sets with the mural on the spines.

Toni Morrison Book Set

NICOLE: OMG DO YOU SEE that she is selling a lipstick you can also use as a cheek stain.

Edward Bess Big Kiss

MEGAN: !!

NICOLE: Which a lot of us have already been doing for years. It’s another one of those “haute frugal things.”

MEGAN: Oprah, my dude, you crack me up. What is her life even?

NICOLE: Well, she wears red striped pajamas to announce her Christmas haul, so that.

MEGAN: Hahahahahha.

NICOLE: Sorry, holiday haul, but with the poinsettias and the red stripes we know what holiday it is.

MEGAN: Her life is actually pretty fantastic, from what I can tell. Like, she fucks around in a garden, Stedman’s there, she wears glasses.

NICOLE: Yes!

MEGAN: She has great skin. Like, she’s got it. Whew, I forgot that I get worked up about Oprah.

NICOLE: I will now go look for cheaper versions of all this stuff.

UPDATE: Neiman Marcus has sold out of the collard greens. https://t.co/F6u1owAIba

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