I'm sorry, I just can't watch Paula Deen anymore

[spinbaby]

It's making me crazy the way she finishes every other sentence with "y'all."

[Haole Girl]

1. I feel your pain

I do.

[sammytko]

2. I watched her for a bit, but can't stand her now

She is such a caricature of herself now - just like Rachel Ray.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. diarrhea pie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s92KnUlzWU

[Phentex]

4. It's true. The earlier version of herself

was better. Now, she lays it on thick!

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Once she started making money and being famous, she became an act of fakery.

Her accent thickened, her southernisms increased, and she is now just a caricature devoid of honesty or integrity, and she seems to really enjoy wallowing in her newfound wealth and fame even though she has neither the class nor the aesthetics to do it well.

She's like the "bad boy" in a typical boardroom created boy band - he's not really a bad boy, but that's the role that's been assigned to him in the band by its owners.

[Rhythm]

6. y'all wouldn't like talking to me then, either...

It's something that sticks to southern speech like peanut butter on a banana.

:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

7. Just for you, from a woman who's married to a redneck hillbilly:

:hug: :thumbsup:

[txwhitedove]

8. Another here in the 'grits belt' says hey, y'all!

:hi:

[spinbaby]

9. She doesn't use it as an item of grammar

Phrases like, "Y'all come over," don't bother me. What bothers me is sticking it randomly at the end of sentences like a verbal tic. "I'm going to add two cups of butter y'all."

[Skittles]

18. naw, Rhythm

I live in Texas and I can tell you that gal Deen severely abuses the use of "y'all" - saying it occasionally is fine; purposely adding it to the end of every sentence is fake, annoying and ignorant.

[nolabear]

10. Y'all man y'all cain't stomach no more y'all? Just y'all or all y'all?

Actually I agree with you. It is natural and ubiquitous in the South, and I say it sometimes, but she's really gotten to be an affected caricature of a high-hair Southerner, and it grates.

[bigwillq]

11. Yea, she annoys me after awhile, too.

She's probably one of my least favorite hosts on the Food Network.

[tammywammy]

12. I don't watch her either

My mom made her banana pudding once...awesome.

http://www.pauladeen.com/recipes/view/not_yo_mamas_banana_pudding

Ingredients:
1 12-ounce container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whip
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
2 cup milk
1 5-ounce box instant French vanilla pudding
6-8 bananas, sliced
2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies

Directions
Line the bottom of a 13x9x2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.

In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

[Arugula Latte]

13. Wow!

I'll bet it tastes deelish, but, Holy Butter, that probably has a week's allotment of fat and calories.

[tammywammy]

21. But it's sooooo good. Totally worth a few extra calories.

My mom made it for Thanksgiving last year. :)

edited to add: and you could always use the light whipped topping and stuff. I'm sure it would still taste delicious.

[begin_within]

23. Thanks!

I had banana pudding in North Carolina once and it was dee-licious. I've never had anything close to it in California. I always wondered how to make it, so now I have a recipe. It is definitely the ultimate white-trash recipe: cool whip, condensed milk, cream cheese, instant pudding, Pepperidge Farm cookies - I believe all of those are illegal at California potluck parties. I bet it's yummy though. I wonder if it would work with the traditional Vanilla Wafers in place of the Chessmen.

[tammywammy]

26. Vanilla wafers are the traditional cookie used

The chessmen make a nice change.

[Skittles]

14. she is disgusting

[cordelia]

15. Can't stand her anymore

Fake accent, overuse of y'all. Can't stomach her.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. Stopped watching her a long time ago when...

I tried one of her recipes that looked so good on paper but tastes like shit. Several times I tried to make that thing and it was just no good. She left out something that I was never able to figure out.

Shortly after that, she stuck her tongue into a chocolate fountain, grinning and licking.

(Not that I've never done something like that-- just not on TV.)

[lunatica]

17. Don't go to the South because even strangers will say y'all

Everywhere else people like cashiers and service people will say "Have a nice day", but in the South they say, "Y'all come back and see us."

[Old Troop]

19. That's what you do to emphasize your southerness (is that a word)

[LaurenG]

20. I don't watch her often but I was never bothered by her.

I don't mind how people talk. I have a tough time with stuff that comes out of republicans though.

[underpants]

22. What, the heavy editing and the still constant eating with her mouth open didn't bother you?

er um Y'ALL?

[haele]

24. My husband's from Alabama and I used to work shipyards alot in Jacksonville and Charleston

as well as Pascagula, MS and Avondale, LA. What is that accent she uses on her shows? Sounds like a mish-mosh of something you'd hear in Jacksonville or Savannah, and maybe Texas? sort of Houston-like? When she started out, it was a lot smoother, now it's just - off.
Let's just say it would sound like something I would come up with to pretend to be fake Southern - and I'm a West Coast babe.

Haele

[csziggy]

27. She's originally from Albany, Georgia and has lived in Savannah for a long time

[haele]

28. Is her accent similar to those versions of the Georgian accent?

I hear too many echos of "Tara" in her speech nowadays. And it seems as if it keeps evolving closer to Hollywood Southern than what I remember of the Georgian accents.

Haele

[csziggy]

30. The only Georgians from Albany I know are men

And their accents are pretty thick. I know a good number of Georgians from Thomasville and the Valdosta area and the women sound a lot like Paula Deen. The men tend to have a rougher accent. I know a woman who grew up in Greensboro, Florida who has an accent a whole lot like the one Paula has - and uses nearly as many "y'all"s.

[lizerdbits]

25. I used to Tivo her show

but I had to stop because it just seemed too fake.

[blue_onyx]

29. I don't like her show...

because she's always pushing her sons on the viewers. The Barefoot Contessa is really the only Food Network show that doesn't annoy me.

[grasswire]

31. I don't like her OR her sons.

When her sons were on Chef v. City, they cheated by pulling a dirty trick on the Food Network team, Aron and Chris. They cheated and they laughed about it. That tells me all I need to know about the Deen family. (I already suspected they were grifters of a sort, anyhoo.)

[muffin1]

34. +1

I love Ina! I haven't watched Paula since she appeared on Fox and Friends. I wasn't real thrilled to see Kristen Chenoweth doing their Christmas show, either. :(

[Deep13]

32. No one is THAT Southern. nt

[Sugarcoated]

33. All the Food Network hosts get on my nerves after awhile

All except Guy from Guy's Big Bite, but I'm sure he'll get to me eventually.

The one who is unwatchable is Sandra LLLLLee, who over-emphasizes her L's.

[Generic Brad]

35. Could you watch her if her pants fell down?

I never get sick of watching that footage.

[zen_bohemian]

36. her accent is waayy over-enunciated

I grew up in the south and my accent is not that drawled. I say y'all...y'all not yah-awwwl..she has some pretty good recipes tho :)