# Paula Deen **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049 "2013-06-27T17:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/21 "2013-06-27T21:23:13Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Why don’t they melt in the fryer? Same way you make fried ice cream; freeze the hell out of it first, then only fry long enough to make it light brown on the outside. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/22 "2013-06-27T22:34:30Z")
Is it true that since these troubles started that business at her restaurants has increased? I heard stories that there were lines to get in, but have seen no cites. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/23 "2013-06-27T23:20:21Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Is it true that since these troubles started that business at her restaurants has increased? I heard stories that there were lines to get in, but have seen no cites. I should like to see some. And pictures of the crowd. Color pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/24 "2013-06-27T23:21:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I should like to see some. And pictures of the crowd. Color pictures. I see what you did there. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/25 "2013-06-27T23:29:44Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Back in the 70’s, we used to say things like, “He jewed me down.” I honestly didn’t even know it was an offensive word, let alone that it referred to Jewish people, until I was much older. I was an adult and a lawyer before I had ever heard this phrase. From another lawyer I worked with. I was just stunned. He’d never thought about what it meant, but I knew instantly. Imagine his chagrin when I explained it to him. He’d been using it for years. ---
**Author:** ![Werekoala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@Werekoala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Werekoala)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/26 "2013-06-27T23:31:00Z")
Everybody is a little bit racist. ---
**Author:** ![Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/27 "2013-06-27T23:41:09Z")
Are these confirmed instances? Or are these just the allegations in the suit? Because allegations could literally be anything. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/28 "2013-06-27T23:42:03Z")
Goodbye Paula Deen Though you never threw that ball You had the brass to tell yourself Vile names abound you called They called out of the woodpile And they deep fired your brain They set you on a bacon bar And you apologized all the same And it seems to me you fried your fat Until you came unhinged Never knowing who to sing to Or what the weather’s been And I would have liked to shut your mouth But I was just a kid Your pancreas burned out long before Your big mouth ever did ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/29 "2013-06-28T00:01:24Z")
Shocking news, and just when I’d ordered her new cookbook Fried and Prejudice. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/30 "2013-06-28T00:47:40Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Is it true that since these troubles started that business at her restaurants has increased? I heard stories that there were lines to get in, but have seen no cites. [Here you go.](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/us/in-the-south-many-are-willing-to-forgive-deens-racial-misstep.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/31 "2013-06-28T00:56:02Z")
> [@Batsinma\_Belfry](#): > > [Here you go.](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/us/in-the-south-many-are-willing-to-forgive-deens-racial-misstep.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) All white, apparently, except for the first one in line. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/32 "2013-06-28T01:24:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > All white, apparently, except for the first one in line. Most of them look like they’ve been watching too much Paula Deen TV. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/33 "2013-06-28T01:32:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > All white, apparently, except for the first one in line. First two. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/34 "2013-06-28T01:51:10Z")
Ok, wait a minute. What we have here is an old, Southern person I’ve never heard of in controversy for racist slurs/behavior? You’ll excuse me if I am not too disabled to type because of the massive heart attack brought on by this it-came-from-outer-space shocker of the century :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/35 "2013-06-28T01:57:47Z")
The interesting thing I found about her deposition was that, when she admitted to having used racial epithets in the past, she added that now days it was never in a “cruel or mean” way. Gotcha, granny White Sheet. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/36 "2013-06-28T01:59:38Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > Ok, wait a minute. What we have here is an old, Southern person I’ve never heard of in controversy for racist slurs/behavior? > > You’ll excuse me if I am not too disabled to type because of the massive heart attack brought on by this it-came-from-outer-space shocker of the century :rolleyes: 66 is not that old. She was in her 20s during the civil rights movement. I’m assuming she want brain dead through the whole thing, so surely she learned sometime around then, or in the ensuing 40 years, that that behavior was unacceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/37 "2013-06-28T02:03:30Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > 66 is not that old. She was in her 20s during the civil rights movement. I’m assuming she want brain dead through the whole thing, so surely she learned sometime around then, or in the ensuing 40 years, that that behavior was unacceptable. Yah well somehow I’m not surprised she didn’t. Crap comes out of the South. Which sounds like a terrible attitude- I guess I’m a bad person too. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/38 "2013-06-28T02:10:25Z")
> [@MostlyUseless](#): > > My mom is of even older vintage and had I used that word in our Southern (Birmingham, no less) home, it would have been my ass. In Virginia your mom would be “quality” and Deen would be “trash,” but you know what an insult that can be. For the rest of you, see the last scene of _True Grit,_ where Mattie calls Frank James “trash” with all the vitriol a young lady of quality can allow herself to show. Which is far, far less than she meant, but Frank knew. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I have to confess a certain amount of schadenfreude about all this kerfuffle. I barely know who she is so I cannot enjoy this as much as I’d like. OTOH, Wife does customer service for the evil empire of discount stores and all she’s been doing the past couple days is fielding calls protesting that they dropped their deal with her. “Folks just talk like that. They don’t mean nothin’ by it. And Southern people just love her cookin’.” > [@Steophan](#): > > First two. I should hope it wasn’t a _mixed_ couple! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/39 "2013-06-28T02:13:48Z")
> [@Tequila\_Party](#): > > 66 is not that old. She was in her 20s during the civil rights movement. I’m assuming she want brain dead through the whole thing, so surely she learned sometime around then, or in the ensuing 40 years, that that behavior was unacceptable. Thank you. Almost all the senior managers in my ofice are in their 60s and older. Born and raised in Dixie, too. I guess if any should utter the word “nigger” around me, I should just roll my eyes and smile and say, “Massa, you is SO funny!” Apparently it is too much to expect people the same age as my parents to act like decent, respectful human beings. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049/40 "2013-06-28T02:17:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I should hope it wasn’t a _mixed_ couple! 😉 I thought it looked like two guys, so if it was a couple, that would really piss off the bigots! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-deen/662049.md?page=3)