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

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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.

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

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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

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

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is that waht i think it is

that is the world's worst Desi Arnaz costume

Oh my god.