Am I the only person who has no clue who Paula Deen is?

[rufus dog]

Sorry, and I am afraid if I click on a thread it will be a Jimmy Dean sausage commercial.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. You are not alone; I don't know who she is, either!

I'm really out of the loop!

[Luminous Animal]

2. I didn't know, either. But then again, I don't have cable.

[southernyankeebelle]

9. She is on the Food Channel. She cooks food that is very very bad for us. She is a southern lady

and is very entertaining to watch. She cooks alot with butter way to much butter. But I like watching her because she is entertaining and I don't need the diet police. Yes am heavy but even I can't take some of her cooking. It's really down home cooking. Watch her sometimes.

[RC]

3. Who?

[hlthe2b]

4. I never watch cooking shows, but somehow I've become aware of her...

She loves rich, fatty southern cooking.

[polmaven]

5. And she uses

TONS of butter.

[RebelOne]

11. I would not fix any of her recipes, but I can condone the tons of butter/

I love watching her on Food Network, but her cooking is off the wall when it comes to fatty foods. Though I am guilty of using tons of butter on all vegetables. And my baked potato is smothered in butter.

[roody]

6. never heard of her until her name popped up here

[notadmblnd]

7. She is known for her mostly southern style cooking

I've made her Banana Pudding and I have to say it is the best I've ever tasted.

[Blecht]

8. I'm blissfully ignorant

I have learned enough to know that she is some kind of TV personality (I think) -- and I shut down my interest at that point.

[DFab420]

10. Lol I envy you.. She cooks seriously delicious seriously unhealthy food and hocks diabetes meds and

Meat from a farm known for abuse of animals


That's all you need to know..

[seabeyond]

12. hm.. i saw another thread and was thinking just that before seeing you post. the thing

we really ddint care enough to even click into the threads, lol. i see she cooks. unhealthy foods. and has diabetes. bummer for her. moderation is our friend.

now i know who she is. well, what she does and what she has anyway

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. My guess is no. n/t

[Skittles]

14. count yourself lucky

she is thoroughly disgusting

[blueamy66]

31. thoroughly disgusting?

Really? That's pretty harsh.

What makes you type that?

[Skittles]

46. YES YES YES

she hawked her sick food choices while hiding diabetes UNTIL the opportunity came along to PIMP FOR BIG PHARMA. She is a fucking phony and THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING.

[Skip Intro]

15. From what I've seen she's a nice, gentle lady people like to attack.

Maybe there's more to it than that, but that's what I've seen.

[bhikkhu]

16. I saw her face on the cover of a tabloid in the checkout line the other day...

other than that, I have no idea. Lots of people I don't know much about, not watching tv; and I'm pretty sure I'm not missing anything.

[quinnox]

17. never heard of her

I just hide any threads with her as a topic.


Except this one, that is.

[LeftyMom]

18. She has a television show where she puts butter on things.

Now you know.

[jmowreader]

20. Not quite...

it's more like she has a television show where she puts things in butter.

[Major Nikon]

19. Evidently she's the fucking anti-Christ

Who knew?

[niyad]

21. she is, apart from being a cook who likes butter, a woman who, when faced with raising two young

children alone, and suffering from panic attacks and agoraphobia, created a catering business so that she could support her family without leaving home.

she didn't have it easy in early years, and yet managed to create quite a business. I don't like some of her sponsors, but I don't feel the need for tar and feathers the way some people seem to.

[rufus dog]

23. well damn, that makes her seem almost human!

[niyad]

33. yes, amazing, isn't it, considering some of the comments made about her.

I don't know what she is like as a person, but she comes across as very down-to-earth and funny, someone who truly enjoys life.

[HappyMe]

35. Thank you.

The 'food police' apparently needed someone new to keel-haul.

[niyad]

36. what amuses me is that the vitriol seems reserved for her--when emeril's mantra is "pork fat rules"

[HappyMe]

37. lol!

Pork fat does, in fact, rule. In moderation of course.


The victims of Le Vitriol seem rather random.

[Golden Raisin]

22. Well, blay-ess your heart, y'all!

(Followed by burst of raucous laughter). One-time agoraphobic Southern TV chef and astute businessperson, just announced as diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, drippin' in annoying Southern charm and with an accent you couldn't cut with a cleaver or chainsaw. Mix Velveeta, Marshmallow Fluff, crumbled Hostess Snoballs, heavy cream, peanut butter, a dash of Gatorade and 18 sticks of butter, then deep-fry for a delicious surprise.

[ZombieHorde]

24. I figured out she is a cook on a TV show by reading thread titles here on DU.

I watch TV, but there are so many shows, I miss almost all of them.

[rufus dog]

25. Thanks for the insight all

seems like I wasn't the only one without a clue.

What I can't figure out is why some lady who drowns her food in butter is such a big deal.

For full disclosure, I am one who has been known to buy $20 of scallops for friends and drown them in garlic butter before throwing them on the grill.

[RZM]

26. I only heard about her a month ago in Time Magazine's Best of 2011 list

Her 'riding things' was selected as one of the best internet memes of the year. I'd never heard of her before that.

http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1680&bih=832&q=Paula+Deen+riding+things&gbv=2&oq=Paula+Deen+riding+things&aq=f&aqi=g5g-S5&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=310l5224l0l5325l34l31l5l8l8l0l224l2840l3.11.4l18l0

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. Deen has an incredibly loyal following.

I think she's based out of Savannah, where she has a famous restaurant.
I have watched her show about 6 times back when I had tv, her southern is a bit too southern for me to listen to
( and I love the South and the people)
but I have to admire her rags to riches story.
(And in moderation, butter is much better than hydrogenated oils....)

[whistler162]

43. To me she just y'all's to much when she

presents her show.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. I found that irritating after the first 10 minutes, I remember.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. Deen prepares dishes that one can easily find

in any given issue of Southern Living.

http://www.southernliving.com/food/kitchen-assistant/

The theme of her show is southern cuisine which includes frying, butter, fat, bacon, etc.

[malaise]

29. No

[treestar]

30. I knew who she is but don't get the controversy

Apparently since she prepares southern foods (she's hardly the first one, or responsible for the high fat content) on a cooking show, and now has diabetes, that's supposed to prove something about southern foods and make her responsible for various and sundry evils that already existed.

[etherealtruth]

32. Evil incarnate ... or that's the impression I have gotten from DU

I've only been (at most peripherally aware of her) .... but come on, she's a cooking show host. I guess she does not cook healthy foods .... again, come on she's a cooking show host

[99Forever]

34. Never heard of her either..

... until the big flap that her eating the wrong foods had made her unhealthy.

No kidding, eh? That's an Earth-shattering news flash there.

[undeterred]

38. Never heard of her before all this ruckus.

[Paladin]

39. You Anti-Fat Storm Troopers Need To Give It A Rest.

Don't like Deen's cooking? Hunker down with a nice big bowl of water-infused, salt-free swiss chard, switch channels, and watch something else. Spare us the food piety.....

[laundry_queen]

42. +1 nt

[bemildred]

40. Nope, I never heard of her before, either.

[Autumn]

41. She makes good cookware. I love my stock pot n/t

[grasswire]

44. bless her heart

She hid her diabetes for three years while continuing to push foods that contribute to diabetes and can exacerbate the disease -- while making money money money.

Then this week when she announced her diabetes, she revealed her new contract with a pharmaceutical company to hawk a diabetes med that carries a strong risk of cancer. Ka-ching.

It's all about the greed and the hypocrisy. She probably ought to retire.