--- 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: 2026-10-08T09:54:30.532Z 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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Oprah Winfrey is the FIRST woman in history to own and produce her own talk show._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 29, 2017 8:07 PM UTC  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. ## Transcript It's essential that in life, you see yourself reflected in other people's stories. It's why, as a little black girl growing up, I was always looking for anybody that kinda looked like me. There were no black people on a billboard or on television or in the media. I'm Oprah Winfrey And welcome to the very first National Oprah Winfrey Show! [ APPLAUSE ] You're looking to find yourself. I was a news anchorwoman. I never felt comfortable in my own skin. And you can watch that lending live right here on Channel 7. I always felt like I had a pretend voice when I went on the air. I would interview people who'd been through disasters in their life and I would feel terrible for them and I would empathize. And then I would get written up by my bosses. And the talk show really freed me. I'm just curious. Is there someone here that perhaps maybe you're attracted to? Just kind of look around, scout out. [ LAUGH ] I went only from what was in my heart. It was the most authentic thing for me. It was like coming home. I built the show around myself and the producers. We were young women in our 30s trying to figure it out and find our own way. I was making a lot of money and my producers were still getting the same salary. I went to my boss of the time and I said, everybody need to race And he said why? He actually said to me you're only girls. There are a bunch of girls what do they need more money for? And I go well either they're gonna get raises or I'm gonna sit down. I will not work unless they get paid. And so they did. There's an old spiritual that says trouble don't last always. So I think there are a lot of us of my generation who swallowed a lot. I always knew that there would come a time when I would be in a position where I wouldn't have to swallow it. In more than 4500 episodes of her show, her message was always you can, you can do and you can be and you can grow and it can be better. Not one thing ever does it it's a series of consistent things. That people say aha, it's time for change. 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