Target cuts ties with Deen; drugmaker distances

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Paula Deen’s merchandise and media empire is fast unraveling.

Retailers Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc. and diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk became the latest companies to sever ties or distance themselves from celebrity cook Paula Deen as fallout builds from revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past.

Target, based in Minneapolis, said Thursday that it will phase out its Paula Deen-branded cookware and other items, which were sold on its website and in its stores.

“Once the merchandise is sold out, we will not be replenishing inventory,” said Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. when "smiffild hayem" went, it was all just a matter of time....

[MynameisBlarney]

4. It took me a few to decipher

that phonetic Southernese.
And I'm from NC.

I am ashamed.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. the way she pronounces it bugs the crap out of me!

shallow of me, I know!

[MynameisBlarney]

9. I can't recall ever watching her show

I know about her mostly through memes, lol.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. I never watched her show either - she occasionally showed up on our local news hawking

"smiffild" products shamelessly (advertised as a cooking segment, but just an ad, ultimately). The hayem pushing the hayem, so to speak.

[mike dub]

2. I thought the same thing as NRaleighLiberal

As a fellow North Carolinian, who knows how big Smithfield is around here, to me Smithfield dropping her was like: stick a fork in this whole thing, Deen's done (dining-implement pun not intended)

[durablend]

3. I think Walmart was the one that really did it

Teabaggers are completely screwed given the number of businesses they now have to "boycott".

[Fringe]

7. That's funny...

Hearing them say they won't shop at Walmart, lol. I can't imagine that happening.

[jtuck004]

6. "fallout builds from revelations that the Southern celebrity chef used racial slurs in the past"

The fallout is from her utter inability to address the wrong in what she has done, and the wrong she continued to do in recent years.

She could have left that behind, led off with a big apology but in a way that befits her many years of experience and learning, maybe started a little education fund. Maybe even not treated her staff poorly, reportedly.

But, no. She had to talk herself into being as toxic as tar sands.

She blames this on someone who wants to destroy her, takes no responsibility. Doesn't know African Americans are offended by the term? Seriously? Her extra interviews are convincing businesses that weren't convinced before.

[russspeakeasy]

8. But she cried. I saw it on the TV.