She really said "or are you mongoloids really talking about me"?????

WOW!!! That's crazy! I wonder if she knows what "mongoloids" was historically used for...

Gwyneth Paltrow is the most over-privileged, stuck-up rich bitch to come along in ages. Sorry, but I won't read anything she's written, watch anything she's acted in, or otherwise have anything to do with her.

@1. No. She did not. A fictional character did. A fictional character named Ignatius Reilly.

That has nothing to do with whether GP has any idea of the historical significance of the word "mongoloid," however. She probably doesn't. And she probably avoids Mongolian food, too. Too much meat.

You who else obsesses about food but never eats it? Anorexics.

This made me laugh SO HARD. Thanks for the afternoon pick-me-up.

I am completely seconding @6. This is pure gold.

I LOVE Confederacy of Dunces.

I strongly support all posts including more Ignatius Reilly!

Someone on a thead just this morning was likening Charles's phrasing to Ignatius's! It's been awhile since I've seen a mention of him, and now two in one day.

Spookily, according to wiki, five days from today will mark 44 years since Reilly's creator John Kennedy Toole took his own life. RIP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenned…

@10, The problem with Charles is that he's too self-aware for a proper Ignatius comparison, in my opinion.

Oh Confederacy of Dunces, probably the best American book ever written! Like an American Three Men in a Boat, without the Thames and all the rowing.

I liked her as herself on that PBS food-tourist show. She ate adventurously at every stop, and let the chefs do all the talking about food preparation.

So, I'll stay away from her cookbooks, then.

http://www.pbs.org/food/shows/spain-on-t…

No. The Ignatius quotes stand out as being far more intelligent than Gwyneth's.

#13, I stopped watching when they visited a pig farm/Iberico ham production facility. She let the proprietor talk about the process, then when he proudly served them his ham, she refused to eat it, screaming "Traif, traif, traif!!!" a direct insult to this wonderful man. If she doesn't eat pork, she shouldn't have gone to the farm. Stupid, stupid woman.