Paula Deen Fans Vent Outrage At Food Network For Dumping Celebrity Cook Over Past Racial Slurs

[Purveyor]

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Watching Paula Deen's cooking show was a weekend ritual for Marilynne Wilson, who says she's furious at the Food Network for dumping the comfort-food queen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past.

"I was shocked. I thought she'd get a fair trial," Wilson, a nurse from Jacksonville, Fla., said Saturday after stopping to buy souvenirs at the gift shop Deen owns next to her Savannah restaurant. "I think the Food Network jumped the gun."

A day after announcing that it's dropping Deen from its roster of celebrity cooks, the cable network was served heaping portions of Southern fried outrage by her fans.

Angry messages piled up Saturday on the network's Facebook page, with many Deen fans threating to change the channel for good. "So good-bye Food Network," one viewer wrote. "I hope you fold like an accordion!!!"

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[southernyankeebelle]

1. At first I thought they did the wrong thing by firing her but now I think different.

I watched this clip where she talked about her great grandpappy killing himself and then brings on a first who is as black as the blackboard behind her. I mean she needs to shut up. She hasn't learned anything.