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7 Things Paula Deen Fried – And Ate
Published on: January 14, 2010 – 2:11 pm by Jillian Madison 
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From cheesecake to alligator… if it’s edible, chances are Paula Deen’s coated it with batter and dumped it into her deep fryer! Here’s a quick rundown of Paula’s 7 craziest, most overindulgent deep fried recipes, y’all.
(Note: you can click the titles to go to the actual recipe page on FoodNetwork.com. Beware of their pop-up ads and auto-start videos, though.)
1. DEEP FRIED MAC & CHEESE
Watch in amazement, shock, and probable disgust as Paula Deen wraps mac & cheese in bacon, deep fries it to a golden brown, and eats it before your very eyes. According to an FNH reader named Hannah, “I swear to God, only a southern woman could survive that mouthful of heart attack on a stick.”
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2. DEEP FRIED STUFFING ON A STICK
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This is basically a combo of breakfast sausage, crackers, carrots, and celery that’s been battered and fried. It doesn’t look appealing to me, but according to Rachael Ray, it’s on a stick, so KIDS WILL LOVE IT!
3. FRIED BUTTER BALLS
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Yes, these heart-stopping cholesterol bullets are nothing but butter and cream chunks that have been battered and deep fried. This is just wrong on so many levels. But on the bright side, hey, at least they’re low carb!
4. DEEP FRIED LASAGNA
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What’s more disturbing? The fact that she deep fried a lasagna, or that the lasagna itself is loaded with CHEDDAR CHEESE and CREAM CHEESE? I tend to agree with Sharon, a commenter at FoodNetwork.com, who said: “I was raised in an Italian home and this is an absolute abomination!”
5. DEEP FRIED BAGEL SANDWICH
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Paula made this with Izaac Mizrahi on an episode of Paula’s Party. Not only was the bagel fried, but most of the individual components inside the sandwich were fried (and salted) as well. You can watch a video of this on YouTube.
6. ULTIMATE FANTASY DEEP FRIED CHEESECAKE
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I don’t even want to know how many minutes I’d have to endure on the treadmill to burn this off. I’d eat it – and love every sinful moment. (On a completely unrelated sidenote, is it just me or does the Food Network have the worst recipe photos you’ve ever seen in your life? In this instance, I can’t quite tell if I’m looking at a piece of cheesecake, or a butterfly that just hatched in the forest.)
7. DEEP FRIED CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE
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These sounds absolutely delicious! Too bad the photo makes them look like elephant droppings.
So there you have it! Have you tried any of Paula’s overly indulgent recipes? Let us know in the comments. And by the way, if you eat them on a regular basis, THIS IS DEFINITELY WHY YOU’RE FAT.
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God! That mac n cheese looks disgusting. And those do look like droppings of some sort.
I think she fried some sausage balls once…..this was one of her older shows. For some kind of brunch buffet.
Actually sausage balls are baked not fried. My mother used to/still does make sausage balls for Christmas morning. But, when the sausage and cheese and bisquick bakes together all of the sausage grease basically ‘fries’ it in the oven.
I’m with you on the mac in cheese… YUCK!
Sausage balls, yum. Made some for Christmas and ate them over the course of a few days. Not exactly healthy, but nowhere near as horrific as fried butter or mac ‘n cheese.
I don’t know about Paula Deen’s fried mac and cheese, but I went to a restaurant in Hollywood CA (near my house) and had them. They were absolutely delicious! Apparently they are quite the hit at Fred 67 (restaurant.)
The first time I ever had deep fried mac n’ cheese was at the last bar on the night of my 21st birthday. It was horrific, terrifying – and one of the most satisfying drunk foods on the face of the planet.
Seriously, next time your out-of-your-face drunk, eat some deep fried mac n’ cheese. I wager you’ll change your mind.
for sure, if you cook like Paula Deen, you’ll look like Paula Deen. bursting at the seams, who wants THAT???
Most of this stuff can be found a State Fairs
My home state (TX) actually, featured deep fried butter this year. Yee haw, y’all.
And I loved every terrifying bite!
Fried butter balls?!? Gak!! That doesn’t even sound appealing in the least!
And I agree that the lasagna looks and sounds like an abomination. Blech!
(On a side note, a couple years ago didn’t Paula mention that Michael was on a diet?…)
I certainly didn’t try any of the fried butter at the state fair in the fall, but I heard from people who did that it tasted like an unsweetened donut, if that makes any sense.
That sounds nasty!
I just don’t know about her. I really did use to like her, but as of the last few years (since Paula’s Party) she is just annoying. That fake Southern accent and YA’LL (I’m from Nashville and we do you use that word like that) just wear me out. Now Pat Neeley says YA’LL just as much, if not more. For the love of God and sanity, I wish they would wipe that slate clean and start from scratch. Or go back to the way the station use to be. Get rid of Guy Ferry first.
That’s suppose to say we do NOT use that word like she does. Sorry
You know, I’m from the Mid South (SW Tennessee, NE Mississippi area) and though we did say y’all, it wasn’t with excessive frequency. However, having known others from the deeper South, I have noticed that the accent does tend to intensify the further into that area you go. I do admit to cringing often when I hear it because it does tend to make one sound like a blathering idiot, even if it isn’t the case. As for Paula, I don’t know how much of her persona is real or exaggerated. I do know she reminds me of some of my family members, though, so I choose to believe she’s mostly real. LOL
I am from southeast Georgia – just below Savannah. People native to this area really don’t sound like that. However, Paula is from Albany which is deep in the heart of middle Georgia and yes folks from there (maybe not all) do have that long southern draw. As for the ya’ll, I have to admit I myself rarely say you. Ya’ll works for singular or plural saving me time and driving my kids crazy. “Are you asking me or her or both of us?” I thinks its the slightly irritating twang that makes the ya’lls stand out so much(even to me ya’ll). She is the real deal even if she adds a little extra for the audience sake.
Guido once ate a deep fried cheeseburger on TripleD.
Some of Pauler’s creations can truly be called “extreme cuisine” !
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How in the hell, if Poopy is eating just half of this crap, is she still alive and breathing?
I’m very confused. How do normal, thinking adults enjoy watching her fry up this crap? How is she so popular when she’s feeding Americans garbage?
I need to go lie down.
Captain Groover looks like he’s on his way out…
With all the grease and oil I’m surprised she’s not sitting on a toilet when she tastes her food on the show. I know I’d have to race to the bathroom if I ate deep fried butter, which in fact was created by one of her fans and was featured on Paula’s Party. When I watch her cook my stomach turns and I feel my arteries clog.
Is anyone else in disbelief that he is 10 years younger than her?
Sandra, Poopy doesn’t sit on a toilet. She uses her driveway.
I was just going to make the comment that maybe it’s crap like this that makes MACKle Guh-ROOver look like he’s in a coma. Poor guy.
Whaaa? He’s 10 yrs younger? Unbelievable.
I hear you Laura – she used to be more modest and less over the top in the beginning, when she still had her own teeth, no veneers. Maybe there is something in those, some mysterious compound forcing the tongue to articulate “y’all” every two words… also refusing chomp anything that’s not fried! :-D
Haha! I enjoyed her a few years ago. Now she looks orange and like shes going “Hollywood” with the veneers and all. And the accent that intensified, and y’all, y’all y’all’s every 3 seconds makes me want to stay here in Hollywood and send her back to the south. Geeze talk about stereotype…
I did an online translation of deep fried macaroni and cheese to Italian and it came up as maccheroni e formaggio fritti nel grasso bollente, so just imagine Gaida Delaurentis saying it. “Machhheroneee ehh formaggio freeeeteee nek grasssssson bolllenteeee Bitches”
He he he i can’t stop laughing , that’s clever, y’all!
WTF! No deep-fried gooey butter cake?
I think she realizes that the entire state of Missouri would rise up and deep fry her if she did that to the iconic St. Louis goodie.
Did I miss something? Did she take it back? Paula was convinced – or, at least tried to convince her viewers – that SHE invented the gooey butter cake!
Oh no she didn’t!
Awww, hell no…Gooey Butter Cake is a St. Louis classic.
My parents live in the South; they are very healthy people and my mom tells me how absolutely horrified she is when Paul-y’all Dean has some show or something in their city and, in her words, “all these fat women in sweatpants show up with their sticks of butter and act like deep-frying everything but the family cat and surviving heart attacks is a matter of Southern Pride.”
And we wonder why the obesity rate in America is so high.
“Deep fry everything but the family cat,”
Awesome. I’m going to remember that one.
Hilarious. I bet they all wear big fancy hats with those sweats as well. If all southerners are like her then I guess I need a pouf and to head to the Jersey Shore…
We don’t all have poufs… fyi. Born and bred Jersey girl here. On the shore. What you see on that stupid ass show The Jersey Shore is absolutely stupid, not like us, and stereotypical. Either way, glad we don’t have fat chicks in sweatpants with sticks of butter showing up randomly. =P
Pauler has not one but TWO recipes for deep-fried cheesecake on FN, one named “Ultimate Fantasy Deep-Fried Cheesecake” and one named “Deep-Fried Cheesecake.” The latter was on an episode named “Fry Me to the Moon.” That episode also featured Fried Collard Green Wontons. I and another commenter took the liberty of blasting the Deep Fried Cheesecake. The other commenter wrote that FN should just rename Pauler’s show “Code Blue” and be done with it. I couldn’t agree more. A few of Pauler’s fans complained that the bacon in the Deep Fried Mac & Cheese isn’t completely cooked when it’s time to remove them from the fryer, and one suggested using pre-cooked bacon. What I’d give for the early days of FN before they dumbed it down.
I love the website “this is why you’re fat” most of the pics are revolting but I am dying to try the poutine fries! I’d probably have explosive diarrhea after I eat it or just die of a heart attack.
As a Canadian, I can assure you that poutine is absolutely awesome! It’s not something you would eat every day, more like once every few months as an indulgence! Fries + cheese + gravy = mmmmmmmm ;)
On my way to Alaska, I ate poutine for the first time in British Columbia. I must say, it was awesome!
I don’t think poutine is really something that horrible. Kind of like it when people have mayonnaise with fries.
Gotta be better than a fried hunk of butter!
I think the gravy is not what we expect? What I know of as gravy has no business near cheese. >puke<
Those look more like turds on a stick. Which is what most of her recipes taste like.
However, the deep fried lasagna actually appeals to me! :)
I saw a few shows lately where Paula made the disclaimer that “of course, we don’t eat like this everday, y’all” – maybe responding to criticism she’s been getting?
I can’t eat heavily fried food at all – it gives me a pain in my liver. No really. It’s probably damaged from drinking too much wine, eh?
Definately Di, I heard her say that when darling Bobbie made a joking comment about cooking with her.
Maybe she has her stomach pumped after every show? I kind of want to have mine pumped right now and I haven’t even tasted any of those deep-fried monstrosities. Deep fried butter? Who does that?
Someone gave my husband a book for Christmas ~ Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit ~ perfect title for Pauler’s next heart attack cook book.
GAAAAHHHH!!! I feel like I need to run out and get angioplasty just from reading this!
This is so funny, as I was frying porkchops last night, I thought about ol Pauler. And, I used a whole stick of butter in 6 pounds of taters! And gravy on top! It was sooooo good! And to think that I cook like that maybe twice a year. How can she be healthy?
I’ve seen the episode where she made the fried butter balls with another woman. I can’t remember her name, but I believe it was her creation, not Paula’s. That said, I felt nauseated watching it and couldn’t believe ANYONE in their right mind would even think to fry butter. Disgusting!
I do agree that FN’s food pictures are some of the worst. They manage to make absolutely everything look horrible.
I’ve had deep fried mac and cheese and it’s pretty decent, but the other stuff on that list is way too much. Got a deep fryer for Christmas and I am trying to limit my use of it to once or twice a week.
Didn’t she deep fry what was essentially a chicken pot pie?
I can’t get past the shit on a stick.
Graphic, but true. Yuck!
Looks like Paula cleaned up the droppings from her menagerie, dipped it in batter, impaled it on a skewer, and stuck it in the deep frier until it was crispy. Sh*t on a stick is right!
I cannot even imagine trying to eat fried butter. [shivers in disgust]
I found Paula’s Lip Balm!!!
http://community.brandrepublic.com/blogs/younglionsfromcannes/butter-stick.jpg
These are all truly terrifying but for me, her most disgusting recipe was the cheeseburger with Krispy Kreme donuts instead of the hamburger bun. Heavens, what is this woman doing?
I was waiting for someone to mention these – I hardly ever watch Paula cuz I can’t stand her fake accent and “y’all” up the wazoo, not to mention the crap she cooks, but I just happened to see this episode – WTF??? – and haven’t been back since!
Wouldn’t you love to slip Paula some Alli before a show and then watch her face after she takes a few bites of some of this fatty food?
Slip-sliding away….
How about the entire container of Alli? It would finally get her out of the kitchen for a good long time. In fact it might even get her off of the boob tube!
Is it wrong that I laughed so hard at this I almost puked?
It’s almost like she’s gotten so over the top that she feels like she needs to top herself. She’s no longer teaching people how to prepare Southern food, rather she’s trying to draw attention to herself with ridiculousness.
Did anyone else watch the video of her eating the Mac and Cheese? It feels like she was thinking to herself. “Well, that’s one more year of life I’ve eaten away…”
I love that Paula, when describing what she is doing to the mac and cheese, actually STOPS talking and starts laughing for like, a second. Like she knows how ridiculous it sounds.
wouldn’t one get anal leakage from all that fat in your diet?
For sure you would have to wear an adult diaper just to catch the accidents… or “sharts”!
#2 – looks like #2 on a stick!
That deep-fried butter literally made me gag!
Yeah, “deep fried butter” has been the stuff of Paula Deen jokes, but I never thought it was actually possible.
When you run out of arty-clogging recipes, you defer to deep frying. If anything, that’s what Guy Feiri has revealed on ddd.
You are trying to make me nauseaseous. Paula’s going to need a bypass if she keeps this up.
if there wasnt a stick in it, the fried stuffing looks like my cat just yaked out a hairball.
Check out the offerings on the website link Miss Jillian posted. It makes Pauler look like a saint. Jesus…my eyes….
I actually had to take an antacid just looking at those “foods.”
My 19 year old daughter is still,yes still, home on winter break from college, and we saw this the other day. Now this is a young kid, she can still eat her crap, (not in my house, of course,), said to me, MOM, call 911! I think I’m having a coronary- and not just a simple one- this is massive! How can these people in good conscience encourage fat Americans to eat this way? If they kill people they will just lose more viewers. Which they deserve.
I know. My birthday is on Sunday and I was thinking how much fun it would be to really cook some “fun” foods just for me, for that day.
After seeing this website, I’m thinking no. I think over extending my Victorias Secret account and just do some shopping is a much, much better idea. :)
I must admit I would try everything on here at least once! The mac and cheese balls look scrumptious!
I am so sick of people who think all cooking shows have to be about health food. We all know how to eat healthy so do it by all means, but leave those that like to indulge every now and then alone!
I’m with you, Jennifer, and in fact I’m going to try to deep fried lasagna some day soon… but you gotta admit, she’s the mad scientist of butter.
Hey y’all , I have got a recipe for fried baklava. What do y’all say, should I email it to Paula?!?! :-D
I…can’t decide which of these is more unhealthy.
The funniest thing to me is that whenever she presents one of her really decadent recipes, she gives the camera a coy look. It’s like a subtle admission that whatever it is, it’s probably not the best thing in the world for you.
Jillian, Serious Eats recognizes the “Paula Deen Style”!
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/01/cakespy-deep-fried-cupcakes-on-a-stick-recipe.html?ref=se-bb1
And just when I thought this stomach bug I got was starting to go. Suddenly I feel sick all over again.
Oh Teague, I am so with you on that. I was finally feeling recovered from a stomach flu myself, and for the first time in several days, I was able to eat again. Now I feel like it may come right back out again….
“Y’all” are forgetting the holiday episode where she battered and deep fried sliced canned cranberry sauce with Jamie. THAT was out of control!
I knew there was a reason I quit watching Pauler, y’all.
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The only thing I’ve ever tried of hers is Butter Pumpkin Cake (not deep fried) and it’s very tasty if you use about a quarter of the powered sugar she uses. (Really, Paula, no cake needs an entire 16 oz box of powdered sugar!)
I saw her making those deep fried bacon wrapped mac and cheese and actually got chest pains just from looking at it. I told my husband that it was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen, but he thought it looked yummy! But then again, my husband is a very fat man.
I have to say, as a lover of mac and cheese, the deep-fried pasta and bacon balls look pretty good. However, did anyone else notice that when she said the mac needed to “set up and get hard”, it was begging for a “that’s what she said” joke? It can’t just have been me!
I think it would be much more difficult to come up with a list of “7 Things Paula Deen Hasn’t Deep Fried”.
So i guess we all know why paula is so fat..
Check out Paula’s face at 3:07 on the fried mac & cheese video. Almost rival’s Sandra Lee’s Lemon Cream Vodka face.
The deep fried mac and cheese is delicious (minus the bacon) …Granted it shouldnt be eaten every week …not even every month but the deep fried breading surrounding it is to die for! Yum
Scrolled down. Scrolled up. Fried macaroni and cheese appeared to be moving back and forward like a cheesy trippy acid vision. Nearly as horrific as seeing fried butter balls.