The Paula Deen backlash backlash
So by now everyone knows that Paula Deen, the overweight 65 year old who eats, promotes and has made her fortune off of peddling ridiculously unhealthy and frankly disgusting foods, has type 2 diabetes. There have been a number of responses on the internets so far and as MSR has not exactly held its fire when it comes to Food network hosts (see sg-dubs various takedowns of Paula and Sandra Lee, as well as my vitriolic rant about Guy Fieri) I don’t see how we can’t comment on this.
Sadly, I have for years been a devotee of the Food network. In 2005 when many of us were writing for the old TVgasm we contributed to the mass Food network thanksgiving day coverage (reposted here, here, here and here because TVgasm never paid us so they don’t own our writing, Heh). Alas, the channel has disintegrated into gratingly annoying hosts of questionable talent and a glut of bad food game shows. With the end of Good Eats, one of the consistently best cooking shows on cable, it leaves the channel itself a sad shell of its former being. I turn to No Reservations and The Layover for my food tv needs (not that Bordain is free of criticism. He has spent the last decade living the rich life with world star chefs and the elitism has definitely seeped into his work, with his self indulgent and snobbish El Bulli episode a standout. however he does admit it and takes criticism well, and he’s still a hell of a writer)
So now Deen has come out to say that she has type 2 diabetes, Unlike Anthony Bourdain, I will not take the (somewhat) high road, when he tempered his comments about her diabetes by saying that he doesn’t wish it on anyone and there’s nothing funny about it. I believe that the woman is trash and is desperately trying to spin her way out of this while also at the same time trying to squeeze a few cynical bucks off of it too.
So first off, I do not feel sorry for her for having diabetes. If she had cancer, yes. But this is entirely of her own doing. How many times have people commented and made jokes about how her awful and disgusting diet, coupled with her weight and age will lead to severe health conditions such as… diabetes? She is simply reaping what she sowed. And her pathetic spin that “hey y’all, I always said to eat my fried butter balls and bacon hamburgers wrapped in donuts in moderation!” is total horseshit. This is a woman who is peddling butter flavored lip balm for fucks sake. She broadcast shows were she literally drank melted butter. My favorite comment from the desperate spin from her pathetic Today Show interview where she said, and I paraphrase “People see my on TV two or three times a day, so that’s only 30 days out of 365 and it’s just for entertainment!” is like saying hey, sure Hitler killed millions of Jews, but that was only during his day job, when he went home he played with his dog and listened to Wagner. No one ever talks about that do they!?!” And if you’re saying to yourself right now “did EdHill just compare Paula Deen to Hitler”. The answer is yes. Ridiculously overblown rhetoric isn’t just for Fox News you know. (Did I also mention that Sandra Lee is worse than Pol Pot? Well, she is. Pol Pot never cut corners when he cooked).
I’m gonna have to get my foot amputated y’all!
The facts are the facts. She is a 65 year old overweight woman whose main claim to fame is telling people how to make fatty unhealthy foods, which is really her worst crime. She wants to eat that shit fine, god knows there’s millions of fat Americans eating crap ever day, but to make millions pushing that shit onto everyone else and making cooking and eating high fatty unhealthy food into her own little cash cow media empire (with her two douchey sons also getting shitty “cooking” shows as well) is her real sin. Whats worse is she even pushed this stuff on kids. From Wikipedia:
She faced particularly strong objections with the release of Lunch-Box Set, a cookbook aimed at children, with Barbara Walters saying of the book, “You tell kids to have cheesecake for breakfast. You tell them to have chocolate cake and meatloaf for lunch. And french fries. Doesn’t it bother you that you’re adding to this?”
Clearly the answer is no. She built her name on that shit. It made her rich. And when four years ago she was diagnosed with diabetes she hid it, and we all know why. It would hurt her brand. Her awful, trashy brand. Then her handlers came up with a way to spin it by coming out on the offensive and say she always said “moderation” and then she can now ‘teach people” about the disease. Really? Here’s lesson one, ignore every piece of advice about food you have ever given in your entire life.
The truly ironic thing that people seem to forget is: Her food sucks. It’s not just fatty food, it’s BAD fatty food. I love a meaty four cheese lasagna, or a rich chicken cordon blue with prosciutto and Swiss cheese. Heck I even love hot wings from Hooters. I don’t eat them very often, but I do love them. Know what I don’t like? A bacon cheeseburger wrapped in donuts. That’s fucking disgusting. or “fried butter balls”. Why would I eat nothing but butter? The idea is vile.
I only say the obvious because there is a backlash brewing about the backlash over attacking her. I say fuck that. I hope this does the following:
1. Forces her to change her diet and eat better.
2. Disappear from my goddamn television FOREVER and take Guy Fieri with you.
EdHill | 01.18.12 | Filed in Food Network
last year bourdain said paula dean was “the most dangerous person in america.” and he didn’t even know she had wilfred brimley disease yet. now she’s the most dangerous person in america with diabeetus.
Comment #1 on 01.18.12 at 12:59 pm“I’ve always said, ‘Practice moderation, y’all.’ I’ll probably say that a little louder now,” Deen said Tuesday. “You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.”
Suck butter Paula.!
hb
Comment #2 on 01.18.12 at 3:43 pm“You can have diabetes and have fatty foods. You cannot have diabetes and eat fatty foods at the completely insane rate of intake that I have done over the last 30 years. Now by my butter lip balm y’all (which by the way was marketed and sold in the last year when she knew full well that she had the disease).”
I fucking hate her.
Comment #3 on 01.18.12 at 4:26 pmFor the most part, I agree. Although just because she has unhealthy recipes doesn’t mean people have to make them….Fried butter balls or donut burgers are so obviously unhealthy, so those that made them are idiots.
It’s not all she’s marketing her food as being healthy or natural etc. There are people and companies that do that when in fact their food isn’t healthy and only loosely can be defined as “natural” and intentionally mislead people.
She puts this shit out there to make a buck, but people aren’t forced to consume it and honestly…they should know better.
Comment #4 on 01.18.12 at 6:48 pmI really have never liked Paula Deen, she’s too hokey and overblown for me, but I didn’t know she marketed lunch foods for kids. That to me is horrible. Here we have a nation of obese kids and she’s marketing unhealthy eating for them?
I’m sure she’s sitting in her barcalounger somewhere sucking away on a stick of butter, laughing her head off.
Comment #5 on 01.19.12 at 8:19 amI believe Anthony Bourdain recently said that Paula announced she had diabetes and is now promoting a diabetes drug. He said something like “maybe I should break legs and start promoting my crutches company”. I love that man.
Comment #6 on 01.19.12 at 9:15 amPaula has been diagnosed 3 yrs ago and is still chubby and cooking and eating badly??? Whatever happens to her is her own fault. Mainlining butter isn’t working though.
I don’t think anyone is tuning into her show for healthy recipies, and I don’t think it has ever been promoted that way. I find her ridiculously entertaining. If a person watching has no idea that fried butter balls might not be a very healthy choice, should probably not even be near a stove.
Comment #7 on 01.19.12 at 10:09 amYou’re right, OD. I think my biggest problem with her is that she has some rabid fans that actually BELIEVE that what she does is what they should be doing. Yes, we would all agree that they are delusional, but I guess you can’t keep lemmings from jumping off the cliff following all the other lemmings doing the same stupid thing.
Comment #8 on 01.19.12 at 12:55 pmHere the tv guide description for a Paula’s best dishes episode on tomorrow…
“Butter and radish bites; sour cream butter biscuits; butter braised shrimp; buttery stone grits”
Comment #9 on 01.19.12 at 4:12 pmHow did that vegetable get in there?
Comment #10 on 01.19.12 at 4:52 pmYou would think she would have gone with butter lettuce.
hb
Comment #11 on 01.20.12 at 10:53 amOr buttered pork rinds.
Comment #12 on 01.20.12 at 11:11 amHere the tv guide description for a Paula’s best dishes episode on tomorrow…
“Butter and radish bites; sour cream butter biscuits; butter braised shrimp; buttery stone grits”
IN MODERATION Y’ALL!! ITS WHAT IVE ALWAYS SAID!!!
Comment #13 on 01.24.12 at 3:01 pmWhat does Paula Deen say after taking a shit?
I can’t believe its not butter!
Comment #14 on 01.24.12 at 3:06 pmHer publicist quit that thing.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/24/paula-deens-publicist-quits-after-firestorm-over-diabetes-announcement-report/
hb
Comment #15 on 01.24.12 at 4:04 pmHmm, those buttery stone grits sound kinda good. Is Paula pulling me to the dark side??? ;)
Comment #16 on 01.25.12 at 7:53 amToday there is this:
http://gma.yahoo.com/paula-deen-caught-eating-cheeseburger-150609231–abc-news.html
Comment #17 on 01.26.12 at 12:44 pmwow! Someone needs to tell me when there are new posts on the main page bc I don’t expect them and always go to the boards. That being said- I was appalled at Paula for trying to make a buck off of her disease after making a buck to get that disease. However- the only way to affect change is to stop watching her show and buying her books. I will still watch Triple D though. Guy is entertaining, even if he wears his sunglasses on the back of his head.
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