OK, so I get up early,and turn on that wretched MSNBC with Morning Joe, and even more wretched Mika Brzezinski. Her rant on my poor Paula. Oh, the wages of sin with Paula. Once the drumbeat begins, there will be no mercy for my Paula. She will be marched off the plank into the flames of food hell. How dare we enjoy a meal that is not composed of fruits and vegetables? How dare we enjoy butter which by the way, it is up for grabs how bad it is for us compared to margarine. Our palate must learn to adjust to “salt free”. Civilizations have fought over this very edible substance. So here we go, I say let us all eat cake and whatever else pleases our palate. In moderation of course!
What’s more, she had waited three long, greasy years since her diagnosis to come out. (Is diabetes like being gay)? During that period, she promoted the deep-fried life without acknowledging her firsthand experience of how a person can be burned by it.
That’s the kind of thing that made me consider some past put-downs of Deen elitist. After all, she isn’t alone in exhorting people to pig out. She’s just unusually cornmeal-crusted, saucy and bewigged about it.
The problem with Paula Deen is that she has lied to her supporters not once but twice, first by promoting her “down home cooking” as if those words give some magic credence to the health factors of her food and then by attempting to fix her lifestyle choice with a magical pill which she stupidly assumes will fix all of her problems and the problems of people who live her “down home lifestyle” Inquisitr
January 25, 2012 at 12:53 am
Oh, MAN, I didn’t know Morning Joe and the NY Slimes have done this to Paula! Funny that nobody’s mentioned lately, in the case of this diabetes admission (as if she’d murdered somebody), that her son has got a new show which has Paula’s recipes only lighter; less calories, less fat, etc. I think she’s a REAL WINNER (even if she did treat Jimmy Carter like the Second Coming on her show once) and I hate that people have dissed her like this.
January 25, 2012 at 8:06 am
No one said a peep when Julia Child reigned with all of her butter. It is that elitist thing, among other things.
January 24, 2012 at 9:28 am
Mika is Zebignew’s little girl. Gee whiz, when that family not promoting global hegemony, they’re attacking Southern Food? That’s how you know they’re evil traitorous little pinkos. Go cook you up some kraut and weenies (enter Polish joke here). As a Southerner, I don’t know any Polish joke as our region is pretty much Pole-free.
January 24, 2012 at 10:24 am
Soon enough, dertain foods will be banned from being served to us, or for that matter, purchased.
January 24, 2012 at 8:00 am
Why should she have to tell the world that she has diabetes? Sheesh.
January 24, 2012 at 9:11 am
These pompous A**es really are getting to me.
January 23, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Butter doesn’t promote diabetes. Excessive carb consumption may. So fry your chicken and eat it with no worries…
January 23, 2012 at 5:28 pm
Thats what I understand. The problem is Paula is not one of “them”… Not Haute Cuisine as understood by the NY Times.