Friday, January 20, 2012
Angie's Big Love for Paula Deen
Posted by Susan Ellis on Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Earlier this week, Paula Deen announced she has diabetes, and what followed was a lot of criticism noting her buttery stock-in-trade can lead to a diabetes (and also that she's only divulging it now three years after her diagnosis when she's got a drug endorsement deal.)
"I couldn't take it anymore," she says. "It's time to show our support, to show our love."
To that end, Stewart has created National WE LOVE Paul Deen Weekend!!!!!!!
It's not an event, per se. It's a Facebook page, where Deen fans, and non-fans, can offer comments of encouragement. It will be up through Monday 12 a.m.
From the site:
It's truly saddens me to see all the negative comments surrounding the recent events. And it ends TODAY!!!! We are officially moving into the love portion of this program. Southerners are known for having BIG Christian hearts & loving folks no matter what..and Paula is a HUGE part of all that! We owe this to her to let her know that she is loved & supported. The judgments from our foodie society are making all of us look bad.
Stewart says she's been a Deen fan for about 10 years. She's made her recipes and met her and her husband at food events.
"If I saw her," she says, "I would run up to her and hug her."
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No. Just no.
Let's have a celebration of the Marlboro man too.
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I'm so excited about a Paula Deen celebration that I'd prefer to host it, if that's cool. We'll have fun and games aplenty, including, "Bobbing For Old Grease", "Pin The Tale On That Fat Guy's Lard-Ass", and a new one I made up, called, "Oh My Dear God, Lisa, Call 911 now! Mama's Got A Tenderloin Lodged In Her Trachea!"
Sorry, but I can not stand Paula Deen. I'm not real sure why or how she became famous, and her "Southern-ness" does nothing but harken images of every negative stereotype about the south.
This woman deserves every bit of the scorn and opprobrium she's in for, for her deceit, phoniness and crass opportunism. I just don't want her to disappear. Along with the likes of Haley Barbour and Terry Roland, she is one of the diminishing numbers of practitioners of the colorful and charming Foghorn Leghorn school of English diction.
Maybe Paula can get together and do a special with Hank, Jr. He seems to have quite a few fans around here, and does his best to reinforce stereotypes of Southerness, too.
People are going to eat what they want, does not matter what any body says. And just because you cook it doesn't mean you eat it. I love her and have her back.
Like Paula said, "Honey, I'm your cook, not your doctor." She shows people how to make great food, but it is up to each individual to decide how much of it to eat.
Paula Deen is the equivalent of the Marlboro Man. Remember him: the advertising icon who represented the glamor of smoking, all the while developing terminal lung cancer.
Paula Deen is a shameless huckster who knew eating her own food made her sick, but hid that fact from her fans so she could soak them for more money. Even worse, while she was hiding what she knew was the harmful effect of eating her food, she figured out a way to profit from that as well with her deal to hawk diabetes medicine.
How this woman can have any fans left after the contempt she showed for them is beyond me.
She must have seen how much money Wilford Brimley was raking in.
What's next? Reverse Mortgages?
I love her and her recipes. I'm relatively thin, so a splurge of some good Gooey Butter Bars every now and then won't kill me.
Hey, get off her ass.I think she's a heckuva good cook and I like most everything she makes. And so do millions of other Southern folks. I also like Wilford Brimley. Met him once and seemed like a nice guy. Ate lunch with him at a most southernly cafe called, "The Kennedy View" Long gone now. And, Yep, I am a diabetic too. Billious
I have never seen this woman (or really like any cooking shows) but I have read about her creations and they are very, very high in calories. Deen has this idea that southern cooking is all deep fried and covered with butter. America has made a millionaire out of someone whose idea of cooking is to fry anything and everything. Including fried butter balls. Yuck.
Now the woman is going to flog some diabetic medication? Does this woman understand the word irony at all? Deen keeps it a secret, and then decides that pitching this product outweighs her reputation as a cook of death. "Howdy people! Ate too many sticks of butter and now you have the diabetes and your foot is about to fall off? Me too! Now I take Gizmotech 100 insulin, and you can too."
For the record, this is how Ms. Deen eats. She cooked food like that for her family, started a restaurant and went from there. She would be a hypocrite not to eat her own food. It's either she eats her own food and got into her physical condition, or she doesn't eat her food, and laughs at her dimwit fans frying bars of butter as a snack. Then she has the gall when she is questioned about her 10,000 calorie dishes by saying that one should only eat her garbage "in moderation". Uh huh, have some more insulin Ms. Deen.
I am getting a big laugh out of this because I was a former employee of Harrah's Casinos and they now have a Paula Deen buffet. Now since Paula Deen's cooking is now associated with obesity, diabetes, and sickness (fair or not), it makes me wonder how many people are going to eat there. The laugh comes from Harrah's being such an awful casino company to work, serves them right. Harrah's, the "Pink Cadillac Casino", with complimentary barf bags for slot customers! Harrahs could even have a Paula Deen slot machine where either three syringes or three sticks of butter is the jackpot (which would be a free Paula Deen Buffet, a barf bag and a sampler of her insulin product.)
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