--- title: Oprah Loves Auntie Pretzel Hot Dogs Thanks to Ava DuVernay description: Oprah revealed that she's a big fan of Auntie Anne's pretzel-wrapped hot dogs after being introduced to them by Ava DuVernay. canonical: https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-29T20:07:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:41.527Z og:title: Ava DuVernay Introduced Oprah to Her New Favorite Thing og:description: During the filming of 'A Wrinkle in Time' og:url: https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted562b5df3084863/6988dffc656a3f9583bd1e66/oprah-auntie-annes-pretezels-ava-duvernay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ava DuVernay Introduced Oprah to Her New Favorite Thing twitter:description: During the filming of 'A Wrinkle in Time' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted562b5df3084863/6988dffc656a3f9583bd1e66/oprah-auntie-annes-pretezels-ava-duvernay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Oprah Has a Delicious New Favorite Thing All Thanks to Ava DuVernay > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 29, 2017 8:07 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Oprah Winfrey speaks onstage during the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 29, 2017 8:07 PM UTC For years, [Oprah Winfrey](http://time.com/4815894/oprah-winfrey-never-run-president/)‘s lists of her favorite things have given us insight into the preferences of the media queen. Luckily, we won’t have to wait for the next edition of “Oprah’s Favorite Things” to see what’s captured Oprah’s fancy of late. [_The Cut_](https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/one-week-on-the-oprah-cruise.html) reports in a review of Oprah’s cruise that Oprah says she only recently discovered the joys of Auntie Anne’s pretzel-wrapped hot dogs, a delicacy that she was introduced to by director [Ava DuVernay](http://time.com/4752416/ava-duvernay-time-100-gala/) while they were filming _A Wrinkle in Time_. Apparently, “she’d never had one before, and now she loves them.” In addition to finding out that Oprah has very good taste in pretzel offerings, _The Cut_ also revealed that Oprah “loves to drink,” and enjoys the good stuff, doing two rounds of tequila shots with some of the cruise guests, and that she even “sometimes she says her prayers drunk on wine.” People may have recently seen her on [_60 Minutes_](http://time.com/4955569/megyn-kelly-today-show-review/) as a contributor, but she does it all. Between this cruise account and [Reese Witherspoon’s FOMO-inducing Instagram shots of Oprah making the cast of _A Wrinkle in Time_ margaritas](http://time.com/4681003/oprah-margarita-reese-witherspoon/), Oprah sounds like a pretty good time. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/"},"headline":"Oprah Has a Delicious New Favorite Thing All Thanks to Ava DuVernay","datePublished":"2017-09-29T20:07:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:41.527Z","description":"During the filming of 'A Wrinkle in Time'","url":"https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Oprah","hot dogs","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted562b5df3084863/6988dffc656a3f9583bd1e66/oprah-auntie-annes-pretezels-ava-duvernay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blted562b5df3084863/6988dffc656a3f9583bd1e66/oprah-auntie-annes-pretezels-ava-duvernay.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show","caption":"69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Show","creditText":"Kevin Winter—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4963184/ava-duvernay-oprah-auntie-annes-pretzel-hot-dogs/","name":"Oprah Has a Delicious New Favorite Thing All Thanks to Ava DuVernay"}}]}] ```