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Rachael Ray, you never bite the hand that feeds you.

Especially when said hand belongs to Oprah Winfrey.

The talk show host allegedly made disparaging racial remarks about Winfrey during a dinner on December 3, 2005.

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Ray, along with seven others, went to Houston’s Restaurant in an L.A. shopping mall – and that’s where the odd, racist bashing supposedly began.

Ray became “extremely loud and aggressive,” sources told TMZ, when the issue of an Oprah portrait that sits in the lobby of Harpo Productions in Chicago came up.

It’s from the movie Beloved and shows Winfrey’s back, enhanced with scars.

She’s also wearing a skirt from the slavery era.

Back at the table, sources say Ray launched into attack mode:

“Why is she wearing slave drag? She obviously has problems being black.”

And if that weren’t weird enough, we also hear that she told the group how much she liked Jennifer Aniston … before dissing her ex-other half.

Ray called Brad Pitt a “pussy boy.”

She referred to Angelina Jolie as “a skanky, backdoor c**t.”

Her reps, of course, deny all this happened.

But we just wanna say this if it did, Rachael: Just because you spell your name strangely doesn’t give you the right to be racist and mean.