Paula Deen appreciation thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAn8zclX3Po

Deen is releasing "a line of fresh fruits and vegetables"

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Pertinent quote:

"There is still so much for me to do," said Deen, who is working with farmers and other food producers to come up with a line of fresh fruits and vegetables.

So far, it's passed the child test. Deen's 4-year-old grandson, Jack, raved about her broccoli. She's hoping to have the fruits and veggies in stores this year.

If the line is successful, "it will be a dream solution for young mothers," Deen said, because of the freshness and taste of the foods.

That hysterical-eyed rictus grin terrifies me.

she is completely, completely out to lunch

a lunch of two glazed donuts with a burger in between

she really terrifies and bothers me & even tho i watch food network p much every day from the hours of 2 pm - 6 pm i turn it off when her shit comes on

I didn't want to go anywhere near her restaurant when I was in Savannah last year just on the .01% chance of seeing her in person. The food at her brother's place was really good, better than at her place I'm guessing.

Can I jus

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/190371_10100341115358969_8829294_60295375_6376605_n.jpg

i watch this over and over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNMfvo2wyc

http://pauladeenridingthings.tumblr.com/

she is like, the biggest nut

1p3 was really out in front of the paula deen phenomenon

man, there was this girl when i was a freshman, right around oct 06 too, that was super into me & one of our first moments of 'bonding' was over paula deen -- i feel bad cuz she obv had a huge crush on me but i didn't even really like her that much as a person & eventually had to block her out of my life, she is kind of a sad human being overall -- she actually bakes now, cookies & shit -- she should've realized i was gay by how much i talked about watching the food network, prob her fault imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oUVwyFsZI

hahaha

I've never seen any of her shows. Think I know what I'll be watching clips of tonight.

(I best that fried cheesecake is so good btw)

I love how she goes to twice the trouble w/ the plating as she does the actual food itself.

Paula has sort of been my favorite since early high school, like before we knew she was a crazy horny old woman. To this day the only thing I've ever willingly shoplifted in my life was an issue of http://www.pauladeenmagazine.com/ . I think when "Paula's Party" came out my soph year of college it was my favorite show for a few months!

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can't even get over how funny a "3 years pass" marker would be

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrt0v549fF1qeqtf4o1_500.gif

paula dean vs sandra lee FITE

dean, deen, whatever

GUYS

http://www.alicetravel.com/paula_deen/deen_family_cruise.html

* Private welcome cocktail party
* A commemorative personalized gift from Paula
* Optional hosted excursions in St. Thomas, St. Maarten, and San Juan
* Personal photo with Paula Deen as well as DVD and CD of the trip (one per family)
* BBQ demo with Michael
* Group buffet dinner
* Makeover demonstration by Jamie and Courtney
* Sports contests (onboard Deen Family Olympics) with prizes
* Group dance lesson for Paula's guests
* Private BBQ by the pool with band
* Q&A session with Paula
* Aunt Peggy's "Family Secrets" (???)
* Optional golf tournament in St. Thomas
* Chef's cooking demo with Paula's critique
* Games with Paula
* Private farewell cocktail party

Fuel surcharge of $70/week pp applies if butter goes over $65/barrel

i am sitting at my computer laughing out loud at 'Aunt Peggy's "Family Secrets"'

how in the hell do you "come out with" your own "line" of vegetables??

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/6/27/822158a1-a889-449c-a858-4666bcb6b497.gif

how in the hell do you "come out with" your own "line" of vegetables??

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food

Butter Flavored Lip Balm

Put a little South on your mouth!

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/01/paula-deen-diabetes-spokesperson-deal.html

i only really know paula deen from those wolfgoreshow youtubes but this is kinda a craven & cynical thing to read about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PsDyhNFBI
btw

this is the least-shocking shocking news I've ever read

Paula Deen Accused of Using N Word In Explosive New Lawsuit

In one example, Jackson states that she was appointed by Deen to handle the catering and staff for Bubba's wedding in 2007, and she asked Deen what the servers should wear: "Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” Jackson alleges Deen told her. "Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that."

Another alleged racist incident listed in the lawsuit: "In the presence of Ms. Jackson and Uncle Bubba's restaurant manager and a vendor, Bubba Hiers stated they should send President Obama to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so he could n***er-rig it."

Paula Deen Accused of Using N Word in Explosive New Recipe

The ultimate source of this is The National Inquirer so obv grain of salt and all but: http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/06/paula-deen-racist-jokes-deposition/

When asked by Lisa’s Atlanta-based attorney if she’d ever used the N-word, Paula responded, “Yes, of course,” and gave examples of times she used the offensive term.

"Yes, of course."

I mean

xp lol Whiney.

but yeah i guess she is racist.

"I can’t determine what offends another person.”

i just, you know, open my mouth and words come out and if you interpret those words in a certain way that's your business

#PaulasBestDishes is pretty hilarious on Twitter right now

"Stop and Friscuits" and "My Best Friend is Black-berry Pie" are killing me.

I was dying at "Coon on the Cob"

also "Pineapple UppityNegro-side Down Cake"

hahahha oh god

"Strange Fruit Pies" omg omg omg

@brokeymcpoverty is really killing ths

"Yes, of course."

I mean

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you ever find a 65-year-old Southern white lady who says she has never used that word, you'd better look into some perjury charges.

Maybe not in the context of "hiring waiters for a wedding" or "the President of the United States," but she's definitely said it in some fashion between now and 1950.

O M G

You Hear White Folk Talkin You Better Hushpuppies

Seinfeld Current Day ‏@Seinfeld2000
Kronor and Paula Deen open new restrant together called N Word Every item on the menu called N Word

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/paulas-best-dishes-twitter-reactions-allegations-of-racism_n_3467877.html

some other great ones here, including my new favorite: LYNCHABLES

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1200750/thumbs/r-PAULAS-BEST-DISHES-large570.jpg?6

If you ever find a 65-year-old Southern white lady who says she has never used that word, you'd better look into some perjury charges.

― pplains, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:33 AM (2 days ago)

This^.

Also: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ilxor.com+nigger

About 166,000 results (0.46 seconds)

http://jezebel.com/get-ready-to-play-paula-deen-apology-bingo-531715175

Josh Marshall, of all people, has a good post.

I can’t determine what offends another person.”

how bout using four sticks of butter as the basis for anything edible

“That’s kind of hard. Most — most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks. Most jokes target — I don’t know. I didn’t make up the jokes, I don’t know,” said Deen. “They usually target, though, a group. Gays or straights, black, redneck, you know, I just don’t know — I just don’t know what to say. I can’t, myself, determine what offends another person.”

I love all the jokes that target the straights, those always bring the house down.

straight guys have sex like this, gay guys have sex like that, what's that all about right?

This^.

Also: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ilxor.com+nigger

About 166,000 results (0.46 seconds)

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, June 21, 2013 1:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hear ya, and some of those are posts I've made, but not everyone on ILX has ever used that word. My point was that 99 percent of all Southern white women born in the 1940s have said it.

I kid the heterosexuals, 'cause they heterosexuals

the thing alfred posted offers a pretty good rebuttal to that xp

there are approximately 10 million posts on ilx so I really doubt 1/100 posts contain the word

maybe there's another board I haven't been reading

I Love Jim Crow

Aryan Fux Top Level

they're all in de subjectivisten

omg lol

Those tweets from huffpost are pretty funny.

https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/348177071262011393

she posted an "apology" video filmed in her office. she has a framed print of a kandinsky painting in her office.

she has a framed print of a kandinsky painting in her office.

Possibly intriguing, definitely depressing.

RIP

Deep six fried.

"Did I hear there was an opening?"

http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/james-deen-646.jpg

http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2013/03/porn-star-james-deen-breakfast.html

"But that got old, and now I have a normal amount of burritos."

Man, she was pink as hell in that video.

I'm not sure she has an office in NYC. She had traveled there for the Today appearance, so she was probably borrowing somebody else's office (and Kandinsky print).

dropped from Food Network

I'm not sure what I implied or what folks inferred from what I said above.

But the crazy people are proving me right tonight.

http://i.imgur.com/mTJ9ctv.png

It is racist to say it and good lord, ESPECIALLY RACIST to use it to describe what kind of freaking waiters you want at your dinner.

But all that said, asking a woman of her background, "Say... have you ever used the N-word?" is right up there with asking someone my age if they've ever said the word faggot out loud.

But is she being fired for having said the N-word, or for the incident that caused her to have to admit in court that she's said the N-word, thus bringing shame on her show and her network? It's the latter, isn't it.

sorry pp, xp to the fb crazies

It's so weird how everybody thinks that she said the word "way back in the 60's or 70's" when one of the incidents in the suit was during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2009.

I don't think I've ever seen her use anything other than white flour and pale butter...

all the different reactions to this scandal were so gutwrenchingly predictable

http://25.media.tumblr.com/aa0f3072331e04be10fe3c6de56aeb7d/tumblr_movko4nIDk1swl9y6o1_500.png

Boy it sure is helpful when white people take time out of their long-hour days to instruct minorities on life lessons, god bless 'em

opaque

that's it, i'm taking a stand, from now on i am going to reclaim opacity and the proud history of opaque-americans

n'er

is'wydt

Tired of translucent Americans mocking us opaques by showing us their livers

ty pplains

i'm guessing "opaque" is a spell-checked "ofay"? not really close, but I don't know what else that would be?

http://i.imgur.com/E4yYw4M.png

teju cole otm

you can kind of see that in the self-congratulating commentary that has surrounded this whole thing, much of it inflected with an "anti-southern" bent that is really just poorly disguised classism. it's always convenient to locate racism in the figure of the overt bigot rather than in structures of inequality you might be benefiting from.

dealwithit.gif
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David Crosby looks pretty good!

Who is that, Uncle Bubba?

http://i.imgur.com/diVuu0R.jpg

I is what I is

if there is anyone out there who has never said something that they wish they could take back, please pick up that stone and throw it at my head so hard that it kills me

i is what i is

oh that was painful to watch. she's so full of shit.

it's always convenient to locate racism in the figure of the overt bigot rather than in structures of inequality you might be benefiting from.

I've said this before about sexism and I'm happy to say it again: it's not a zero-sum game. No one is going to run out of racism game pieces by finding it in too many places.

so dropped from Walmart now too - her career is basically over...?

how racist do you have to be to get dropped by Walmart, damn

at least she still has her diabetes drug endorsement... after encouraging millions of americans to eat more sugar

More like how racist do you have to be to defend her on Walmart's Facebook page?

http://assets.inarkansas.com/40398/paula-deen-reaction-on-wal-mart-facebook.png

Not so fast there --
http://eater.com/archives/2013/06/27/paula-deen-loses-pharma-deal-dropped-by-novo-nordisk.php

xp

Yucky smells.

omg lol that people are totes cool with Walmart destroying local businesses and underpaying its employees, but drop the endorsement deal of a celebrity currently embroiled in a racial scandal and that's the final straw

lmao forever @ whiny old white ppl who do the "I'll just take my business to KMART instead!!!!" thing

I don't even think walmart is dropping her because they want to be not-racist they are dropping her because her brand is worth nothing now

yeah, she's only worth as much as her exposure and no tv deal ain't gonna gitrdone

there was a paula deen cake somewhere i was last weekend and i tried a bite of it and it was fucking disgusting, tasted like chemicals

was it made out of diabetes medication and butter?

FACT: You can't buy bananas at K-Mart

it was made with Paula's "Lemon Dill Finishing Butter"

if there is anyone itt that has never baked a cake that they wish they could take back

please pick up a stone and literally kill me

http://pauladeenfoods.com/products/view/garden-herb-butter

"I just love this finishing butter on fresh vegetables or pieces of fish. The herbs just explode in my mouth and it makes me feel like I'm standing outside in my garden; reaching down, plucking herbs and chewing on them."

that sounds fucking gross, Paula Deen

I mean, try chowing down on a rosemary twig sometime; it's not pleasant

Y'all this takes a fraction of the time compared to other cake mixes because this cake is “all-in-one”. My Ooey Gooey cakes are the number 1 dessert choice by patrons at the Lady & Son’s restaurant. Delicious dessert with no trans fats or cholesterol, and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all. and it includes my gooey filling mix y'all.

http://oi43.tinypic.com/sd04rp.jpg

includes my gooey filling mix y'all!

oh shit, america has aldi? damn

xp read that in Busta Rhymes voice in my head

doesn't aldi secretly own trader joe's

Huh, crut, I thought you made up the part about chewing on herbs. HUH.

xp Aldi not so secretly owns Trader Joe's.

oh shit, america has aldi? damn

― my eventual wife (stevie), Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:01 PM (49 seconds ago)

#pr0tip we love cheap food

looking at the product page for that cake mix and my tab says "Ooey Gooey Butt..." which is what I think I'd get if I ate that cake

is aldi the southern trader joe's then?

What? No. They're all over the place.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/news/companies/paula-deen-home-depot-target-diabetes/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

she is super done, huh

she might have room to be the celebrity cook on the right-wing reactionary circuit but it's hard to imagine her ever being an acceptable national figure again

she'll still have a lucrative career selling books full of toxic meals to racists

xpost

lol crut

shes like the natalie maines of klan members

i meant to say for klan members but actually both prob work

cheerios should pick her up just to fuck with all of us

hahaha

"Paula Deen is the new face of celery"

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/danbigman/files/2013/06/234x3003.jpg

"EAT HEALTHY, Y'ALL"

what if she started a wedding planning company

she should be in the next Tarantino film

Map of Aldi locations

http://i.imgur.com/H1sDN1Xl.png

funny how folks are gonna willfully read this as POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD when in more like a direct consequence of being a dumbshit blabbermouth who's bad at crisis management

I haf never seen an aldi apparently there is one in new york but it is far out queens

is it good?

HMMMMMMM kind of depends on how you define "good."

i went to an aldi once and it was strange

its like wal-mart products sold trader-joes style

They are cheap as hell. You have to bring your own bags. They have kind of a warehouse set up wherein a lot of their stock is just put out in the boxes it was shipped to the store in. A good friend lives across the street from an Aldi and while she is pleased to have a nearby source of groceries, she says it doesn't quite cut it as a sole source for grocery shopping (kind of how Trader Joe's wouldn't). She said they have really cheap cheese, though.

like, there is one kind of everything, no variety, and its the cheapest fucking version of that thing available

i used to get a 12 pack of frozen hash brown patties for $1.99

The registers are kind of weird. The cashiers sit down. They are also the kind of anti-TJ's cashiers in that they don't give a shit what you bought or whether you've tried it before and have no interest in engaging in any banter.

Actually, the last time I was in an Aldi I think the cashier was yelling at a disruptive drunk to get the hell out of the store.

if there is anyone itt that has never baked a cake that they wish they could take back

― iatee, Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:55 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

please pick up a stone and literally kill me

― iatee, Thursday, June 27, 2013 8:55 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

like, there is one kind of everything, no variety, and its the cheapest fucking version of that thing available

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

have never heard of these stores before. doesn't sound like my kind of thing altho from that map it looks like there is one somewhere in the bay area...?

Aldi is...different. They keep slash overhead by stacking things on pallets on the floor, charging for bags, not bagging groceries for you, and being generally as austere as possible. You have to deposit a quarter to use a cart.

But their products are usually good, and prices are very low.

I've been to Aldis in rough areas, but in Chicago we also have one by Crate and Barrel, etc. in ritzy Lincoln Park.

I like Aldi.

xps

yeah the cash register situation is super disorienting if you're not ready for it. you have to bag your own groceries and you have to be fast because there is literally no room for the groceries to pile up after they've scanned them

also you rent the shopping carts for $0.25

Their version of Triscuits and Wheat Things are super cheap and OTM. Nuts are cheap there, too. Produce is good and cheap. Potato and corn chips are good and cheap. Their havarti is delicious and creamy and cheap.

The disruptive drunk Aldi was in Uptown.

xp you're good and cheap

one time me and my boyfriend were visiting thrift stores and got a little too stoned (it happens) so we come across an aldi, thinking, ok, let's get a bottle of water here.

there was no water, at all, just, like brands of canned vegetables i'd never seen before and a dozen different types of austrian shortbread cookies. you had to enter through a turnstile i think?? and it was kind of laid out like a labyrinth -- no aisles, just one path weaving through all of the pallets. i dunno.

i mean obviously i did not visit under ideal conditions but

My boss raves about the one that opened last year, but only for its produce.

I have totally forgotten that there are stores where you don't bring your own bags + other people bag your groceries for you

At Aldis I've been to they dump the groceries back in your cart after they ring you up and then you go to an area where you bag or box your groceries. I like bagging my own groceries, actually, which is why I prefer self-checkout at other stores. It is a little shock the first time you realize nobody's gonna bag your groceries for you.

i always jump to bag my groceries even at TJs because (1) i like to double bag (2) i'm v particular about sorting by food type and (3) i don't necessarily trust ppl to do it for me

i shop at aldi's all the time

also you rent the shopping carts for $0.25

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:42 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

well you get the quarter back when you return the shopping cart

aldi's is super cheap because they only stock house brands... they have good european chocolate that's cheap. produce is hit or miss. good place to shop for basics

why does nobody talk about aldi if so many people shop there

I feel like I've been missing out on a whole world

it's for people with cars

they're in the suburbs

How so?

xp - There are Aldis all around Chicago, at least two I can think of right next to El stations

yeah aldi here is mostly in the city iirc

guys these are lazy iatee zings you dont need to deal w/ them in earnest

ahhh

feeling lazy: just mixed a drink with tonic water bought at Aldi's.

I don't shop at Aldi bc none of them are convenient for me. Otherwise I would. I like $aving$.

i wasn't trying to be zingy... the fact that you have to buy bags is gonna discourage a lot of city people who don't carry bags w/ them all the time

when me and my parents go we just go around and rearrange the products until we can free up a cardboard container

then we hustle it to the car

do you pay a quarter to have your car released from the parking lot

now that was a lazy zing

Guys, I'm not sure if this is a real place you're supposed to be shopping inside of.

someone should start an aldi thread for all things aldi

for aldi things aldi

That store is pretty rad, but yeah they are for people w cars. I need to find one on a bus route but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is way the hell out in East Atlanta and it would probably be a 3 hour trip and right now it's so hot that whatever food i bought would be ruined by the time i got home.

I did go to one once to buy breakfast fixings and was really amazed at how cheap everything was. Even compared to Kroger or the Farmer's Market everything was cheap. The produce was like 1 or 2 dollars less than usual.

When I was last home, I noticed an Aldi on Lake Street. They're all over London and the one in Camden is a weird customer mix of penny-pinching food yuppies (inexpensive cured Euromeat) and unhappy poor people.

Great. I'm all lumped in with the fur trappers.

http://i.imgur.com/b5JgHld.png

guess you're not gonna beat Walton on his home turf

Ha, actually the only part of Ark with Aldi is WMT Ground Zero.

http://i.imgur.com/GoTuDRE.png

Lol

Pp, what is that map? There are more Aldis than that.

http://www.aldiuscareers.com/location.aspx

Afroculinaria's open letter to Paula Deen: http://afroculinaria.com/2013/06/25/an-open-letter-to-paula-deen/

so wait - aldi's is decent?

It's cheap and good for lots of things but it's different and not necessarily the only grocery store you'll ever need.

i feel like i owe aldis another chance

Then maybe some good will come of this Paula Deen mess.

Holy shit: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/paula-deens-soul-sister-portrays-an-unequal-bond.html?pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB

http://i.imgur.com/zN2vr1V.png

sounds about right

IME there is no one more deen-like than a georgia republican

PublicPolicyTrolling

not that i don't approve

yeah i kinda love that their polling methodology is sound apparently but they're totally willing to troll republicans on twitter. like nate silver kinda kept his cool during the unskewed polls thing but ppp were like 'no fuck these guys'.

http://gawker.com/gravy-boat-my-week-on-the-high-seas-with-paula-deen-an-1522108382

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lord help us

"Miss Paula had favor on me," he says into his microphone headset. (The audience is fairly small; perhaps 40 people.) "She said 'Brad, would you come on the cruise?' in that wonderful accent of hers. And I said, 'Yes ma'am.' No matter what she calls me, I'll be there saying 'Yes ma'am.'"

:/ :\ :/

i can't stop looking at that butt picture. it reminds me of my irl grandma.

I think I'm going to have my students read this in class to kick off our unit on description.

this piece is so good, caity weaver rules so hard

^

The running bit about "things were different in the 60s" is horribly funny.

The afternoon before the cruise sets off, I fly to Miami. On the plane, I sit next to a woman who talks to me from the moment she sits down. When the plane lands, she tells me "I'm sorry we didn't start talking sooner," presumably referring to the time period before she and I arrived at the airport, or expressing her regret that she and I were not old friends prior to meeting. Her husband offers me a granola bar, which I decline, and then some dried meat, which I also decline, and then the granola bar again, which I accept.

She is very observant and generous with the descriptive details.

she is exactly my favorite type of humorous writer

Yeah she's great. And, like, pretty young iirc? which is interesting to me I guess

that story is so fucking funny

The afternoon of Paula Deen's Cooking Demo is chilly and windy, but the chicken is wrapped in bacon and lacquered in cream sauce.

^^ Marilyn Hagerty level

Her husband, a ramrod straight-standing white-haired man recently retired from a government job, demonstrates a unique talent for being able to stare out at the horizon without moving or speaking for hours at a time. I spend the next few days considering his inner monologue, wondering exactly what I am watching him see. (Eventually I settle on: himself, in his younger days, discreetly killing people.) I like the South Dakotans a lot.

I see this guy perfectly, thanks to this description.

Everyone on the boat is racist and nice. Including me.

The non-Deen cruisers are racist. The amiable mother of a former Miss Virginia is racist and has a tenuous grasp of the concept of slavery: "Don't I see [Paula] walking around with a black fella? He's her bodyguard or something? That right there shows she's not racist." The urbane gay couple visiting from Los Angeles is racist: "Filipinos are pushy," one of them explains shortly after telling me he is "not okay with" Deen.

The Deen cruisers are racist, dismissing out of hand the notion that Paula's use of the n-word was somehow offensive to black people.

I am racist, because I get upset at the black people in our group for not acting like I think black people should act on the Paula Deen cruise (i.e. frosty and indignant; or at the very least incredulous).

^^ tallying and recognizing racist thoughts is something I appreciate over "everyone's a little bit racist"-style apologia

she seems very thoughtful and like a good person, and is not too judgmental of these shitty people who love paula deen, just trying to understand them

That's what I meant when I said she was generous -- she is not trying to humiliate people. It would be really easy to do that, but it's her desire to understand the Paula Deen cruisers that seems novel, at least in today's climate.

We all have our blind spots when it comes to judgment when we enjoy someone or something. Some of those blind spots are Paula Deen-shaped.

You couldn't pay me enough to take a duck dynasty cruise, though.

http://www.doney.net/aroundaz/DA_inflatable_duck1.jpg

if this is a temporary caity weaver love thread, the first two sentences of her latest are "Think about the last time you saw a clown. Was it dead?"

her fashion week thing w/ the minute by minute account of the models who had to stand still on stools, etc. it was so good

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/grub/2014/02/25/25-paula-deen-tequila.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

my students did not love this essay

Ha. What did they not like about it?

They didn't understand why anyone would care that much about Paula Deen and her cruise, so they thought it was boring.

weird.

I can understand where they are coming from. If someone wrote a compelling essay like that about, I don't know, a golf outing I would probably like it a lot less.

Not everyone wants a hyper-detailed account of something they find inconsequential.

very true

for the rest of us, there's ilx

I can understand where they are coming from. If someone wrote a compelling essay like that about, I don't know, a golf outing I would probably like it a lot less.

I would probably like it less too if it was about a golf outing (or like a profile of tax appraiser or a hiking enthusiast) but if it was written as well as the Paula Deen one, I can imagine it still being interesting. I mean, just started reading DFW's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and despite disliking math and not caring at all about tennis, I really enjoyed the first essay, which covered those topics.

Not that everyone should love the PD essay, but it's odd if the class was unanimous in not caring for it.

haha isn't the title of that book also the title of an essay about a cruise ship

that essay is in the book, i'm pretty sure

It's the name of the essay, gr90 is right

Ha yeh you're right. Idk how I forgot that.

yeah i was really surprised that's NOT what your post was about, haha

guys
this is the most fucking insane thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4vhJaX1hw

ok wow

slowed down paula deen videos are pretty klassic

http://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/1*psOpdDK5AoG0nf_SJBWq_g.jpeg

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByteZMQCIAECVoB.jpg%3Alarge

https://s2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uMkDh7xLfNZvnin0RNuYsg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTtzbT0x/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2015-07-07/11454ab0-24c1-11e5-95f4-f71f3afb68ae_paula-deen-brownface.jpg

is that waht i think it is

that is the world's worst Desi Arnaz costume

Oh my god.