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ple lined up Saturday outside Paula Deens restaurant in Savannah, Ga. Many were angry that Food Network had dropped Ms. Deen.
By KIM SEVERSON
Published: June 22, 2013
SAVANNAH, Ga. The line of Paula Deen fans waiting for her restaurant here to open grew throughout the hot, muggy morning Saturday.
They discussed what they might select from the buffet inside The Lady and Sons, her wildly popular restaurant in the heart of Savannah.
But they also talked of boycotting the Food Network, which dropped their beloved TV chef on Friday after she awkwardly apologized for having used racial slurs and for considering a plantation-themed wedding for her brother, with well-dressed black male servants.
The predicament that Ms. Deen finds herself in began when a former employee a white woman who is now managing restaurants in Atlanta filed a discrimination lawsuit in March 2012. She claimed that racial epithets, racist jokes and pornography on office computers were common while she managed Uncle Bubbas Oyster House, one of the restaurants in Ms. Deens empire. Forbes has estimated her net worth at $17 million.
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BootinUp
(47,147 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)literally
pscot
(21,024 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)out, doesn't it? Nearly all of these people are at least 75 lbs. overweight.
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)and learn something about healthy eating. Bad decisions are not limited to
use of racist language.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)That picture speaks for itself.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)If Paula Deen's current contract included the period when she learned that she had Type 2 Diabetes, it reflected poorly on the Food Network that one of their "stars" was singing the praises of fatty foods (particularly butter) & sugar.
And Bubba...he was a lawsuit waiting to happen.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Modifying the recipes.
Those are the ones I feel sorry for, her sons.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)She's made millions of dollars, including a six-figure contract with a pharmaceutical company that produces a diabetes medication. Her sons will be wealthy one day, if they're not already.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)And one moved way away from momma, to the midst of Yankee land. I wish him well.
I know I am a softie until they go there.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)...all this thread needs is a Chris Christie wisecrack to sum up the usual cast of characters who seem to make light of the obesity issue.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)It's amazing to me that those who would criticize a woman for a remark about the color of a person's skin are just as ready to make wiseass remarks about the amount of a person's skin.
Raine
(30,540 posts)BooScout
(10,406 posts)And I'd be willing to bet that many of the folks slamming her have also at some point in their lives used a racist remark as well....but they will deny that until the cows come home.
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Lex
(34,108 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Grow up.
Nay
(12,051 posts)anything of the sort. It should give everyone pause, though, that people in this condition are standing in front of Deen's restaurant. Folks, if you aren't working in the hot southern sun 12 hours a day/6 days a week as a sharecropper, you can't eat like that.
Raine
(30,540 posts)Recpes. lots of butter and sugar and plenty of fried food.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)All overweight.
All racist.
All ignorant.
How telling.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)is why we may never be able to deal with the red states again. You can't expect people in those areas who disagree with progressive ideals to respond positively to being called fat, ignorant racists.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)She can easily spin this as political correctness run amok. Millions of people who have used the N-word and not completely regretted it (and even some who do regret it) will buy her books, etc.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)There is always a line like that outside her restaurant. Always. Never been inside the place because there are lots of better options without the wait.
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