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7 Things Paula Deen Fried – And Ate
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.
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7 Things Paula Deen Fried – And Ate
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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.)
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.)
I was about to say….deep fried mac n cheese is terrible for you but oh so DELICIOUS
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.
Fried mac-and-cheese is pretty darned satisfying when you’re sober, too. It could be one of nature’s perfect foods.
for sure, if you cook like Paula Deen, you’ll look like Paula Deen. bursting at the seams, who wants THAT???
I don’t know about Paula, but I remember Aaron McCargo Jr (pan) frying up some sausage balls with Claire Robinson on a Thanksgiving special once. It was damn near pornographic.
Also fried mac and cheese is dope.
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.
thank you for the updates on what makes you go to the bathroom. I know I am better for it now.
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 can practically guarantee you she got the veneers on orders from the food channel, and probably the tanning as well. They use videotape, and non-white teeth look far worse on video than in real life. Tanning saves on make-up. That might mean “going Hollywood” but it also means she’s doing it for her job.
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.
I LOVE MAYONNAISE WITH FRIES!
*ahem* Sorry. But I DO. And I don’t have them that way all that often, or if I do I make sure to make the healthier baked potato wedges version of “fries”, but that stuff is so good.
BTW, I’m dying to try lobster poutine the way Chuck Hughes makes it, ever since I saw him cooking it on his show “Chuck’s Day Off”. I understand the wait to get into Garde Manger is, like, ten years or something. I think that should be enough for me to save up for a trip to Montreal.
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 saw that!!!! And then I had to have a triple bypass just from watching that being done. Seriously, regular chicken pot pie is the bomb diggety. Why ruin it by making it all fried and greasy?
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!
To be fair, she didn’t invent that. That’s been around for ages and is best known as the “Luther” (after the late R&B singer Luther Vandross), due to Vandross’s tendency to get very, very fat about half the time (the other half he got very, very thin) when he was alive. He died about eight or nine years ago, so I would say the “Luther” dates back approximately 15 years.
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?
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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”!
people who have fun in life, people who don’t give fuck what others think about them, people who enjoy the here and now because they may get hit by a bus on the way home people who don’t want to legislate butter, sugar, tobacco, what others read because it doesn’t agree with your agenda. who fucking cares who does it? She does it and you must like it or you wouldn’t be craning your neck to view the next arterial train wreck that’s coming next.
I like you! Live and let live!
#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.
whos “encouraging” anybody? It’s pretty much up to you to make it and eat it. Did she ever say eat this? No, she says “this is what I’m making today.” It’s sanctimonious idiots like you who would rather have everybody eat boiled chicken and broccoli rab(or whatever that crap is) just so you could feel better about yourself. I’m naturally skinny, can eat whatever I want, but on the whole, the fat people I’ve come across I’m my life that enjoy food and life are a hell of a lot more happy with life than you people who blame a cooking show host on a dink cable network for the obesity of America. It’s the fucking parents NOT cooking show dweebs or Ronald McFuckingDonald.
If I could like this a thousand times, I would!
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..
your cool hahahahaha
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
That’s like saying the pipe bomb wasn’t that bad without the extra handful of nails. On behalf of every taxpayer in America, if you choose to eat deep fried mac and cheese, please make sure you have private healthcare insurance, and hey, good luck with the upcoming triple bypass!
you can have coronary artery disease even if you eat healthy food all day long. some people have bad genes. get some education
Is there a reason why you’re being so nasty? You can enjoy unhealthy foods once in awhile and it won’t kill you. Besides, she didn’t say it was healthier without the bacon, she merely stated that in her opinion it tastes better without the bacon.
I’m with GoodLord on this. Educate yourself before typing. There have been plenty of high profile athletic fitness freaks who live on bland chicken and rabbit food who have dropped dead of coronary attacks. If I want to let my insurance lapse and eat fried gum balls I will. And you Liz are going to pay for it Haha!!!
by the way Liz, I don’t think any of the American taxpayers really give a crap if you speak for them. I know you don’t speak for me nor does the sheep lady who says ‘we are all in this together’.
So to Liz and the sheep lady, on behalf of individuals who choose not to get in others people’s business and decide to live life however the hell they want to and eat whatever they want without any regard to what you and the sheep lady think and a complete lack of deference to your self annoyed pulpit, where do we send the bill?
DAMN, Sandy – that was freakin’ brilliant! Can I put your # on speed dial so I can call you for an incredibly articulate response when somebody around me says/does something stupid?
Seriously, that was awesome.
Can you take the bill, stuff it in your mouth, and chase it down with a nice warm cup of STFU?
Obviously Liz has never had deep friend mac and cheese. It’s awesome! I get it a couple times a year at happy hour with friends. We also get fried wings, nachos, etc. Bet that drives Liz’s taxpaying ass insane! I work out 3-4 times a week and am ridiculously healthy. It’s called moderation and, you know, LIVING.
You also want to be sure that on behalf of the taxpayer that never ever indulges in anything that’s not good for them that smokers, people who drink alcohol excessively, and mountain climbers should also have private health insurance so we don’t have to pay for treating their self-induced medical ailments…right?
I’m with Diana – it’s good. However, I’d probably compare Paula’s recipe to Alton’s just to see if there’s any way possible to make it not quite so bad; maybe just removing that bacon will help. :-)
Agreed. Deep fried macaroni and cheese is lip smackingly good. The supermarket brand has them in the frozen foods aisle, and once in a blue moon I get them.
Cookery God Alton Brown also made it on his macaroni and cheese show with his “nephew” and I was like WTF!?! before I tried it. Once I did, I was hooked!
I WAS GOING TO MENTION ALTON’S FRIED MAC AND CHEESE!!! Seriously, that’s why I started commenting on this thread thing in the first place. And didn’t Alton’s come before Paula’s? His looked super duper awesome, though, much better than Paula’s. He made a pan of baked mac and cheese, let it get cold, cut it into rectangular wedges, dredged it in eggy goodness with hot sauce, put it through panko bread crumbs, and deep fried it.
I wouldn’t try it but the once, but i would try it! Maybe if I were called to bring in something for a potluck where I knew I’d only have the one wedge and that’s it. Oh, but I’d have to have the homemade baked mac and cheese first. I was raised in a two-income blue collar household and so have never had homemade mac and cheese. My parents were clearly hell bent on destroying American culture, LOL.
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.
Im a white boy from north east,, I had the fried butter & Mac-n-cheese,, and had a heart attck,, twice, but they were sooo good!!! dont knock till u try it
She didn’t even originate most of those dishes(or a lot of others as well), but because she is on television, she takes credit for them. I can’t stand her exaggerated fake southern accent, because it makes the real southerners look ignorant. I can barely stand to watch her anymore because she is so phony. Notice, those of you who are fans, the next time she has someone on her show with a name like Martha(Mahtha as she likes to pronounce it 20 times ad nausea for effect). For the record, none of us say, “ya’ll” every two seconds when we speak.
I agree with the “y’all” comment, we don’t say it constantly and it’s completely annoying to hear Paula do so. She is like a live-action caricature of a person from the South. Not the real thing at all.
BTW, not to be a b*tch, but the phrase is “ad nauseum,” not “ad nausea.” Pretty much means the same thing, though. LOL
That is exactly why I can’t stand her. She is as fake as Cool whip. No one talks like that,and no one I know from the South would eat crap like this on a regular basis.
My husband would, if I fixed it for him, which I don’t. He absolutely would eat this stuff every day if he could. And yes, she’s fake, but so is everyone else on TV. Except maybe Alton Brown. (and he lives in Georgia, too!)
Not everyone on cooking shows are fake. PBS has some great chefs/cooks who are very real. But then again, they actually show technique and create dishes I’d actually like to try. They don’t need to cover up a lack of any credible talent with a weirdo manufactured personality. This is why a lot of FN fans don’t like Alton Brown.
[...] does have a recipe for fried butter balls. And if you want to see more of her fried creations, try this link. __________________ 3b/c normally, 3a/b in the [...]
[...] years her show and articles such as “7 Things Paula Deen Fried – and Ate” sparked rumors that the cooking icon had diabetes. She was often criticized for promoting food [...]
[...] years her show and articles such as “7 Things Paula Deen Fried – and Ate” sparked rumors that the cooking icon had diabetes. She was often criticized for promoting food [...]
[...] years her show and articles such as “7 Things Paula Deen Fried – and Ate” sparked rumors that the cooking icon had diabetes. She was often criticized for promoting food [...]
I hope the people who eat like this have the integrity to not take advantage of public healthcare.
I’m sorry, but we’re not in this together…not with people eating like this.
whoever said “we are in this together” is an idiot. As well as those repeat it and try to make others believe it. Get a fucking life and be an individual for God sakes. Paula Deen, while annoying, should be lauded for being an individual and doing whatever the hell she wants to instead of being a feaking sheep like cookie cutter commenters like you.
We are all in this together? Fuck off
Dear Sandy,
Thank you for the well thought out, elegantly phrased reply. I can only speak for myself when I say that your comment has COMPLETELY changed my view of Paula Deen and her fans. I used to think they were fat, ignorant hilljacks, but after reading your thoughtful missive I am now SURE. Thanks for clearing things up.
not a fan of hers, hate the stupid village “we are in this together” inanity crap. If we are “in this together” then come over and shovel my fucking driveway sheep
Shit, Sandy, what crawled up your ass and died this morning?
[...] fall she smoked a pack and a half a day. She will also deep fry anything, and I mean anything: macaroni and cheese, stuffing, even butter itself. For years, she’s existed as the Keith Richards of cholesterol, seeming to survive solely on pork [...]
This site is making my anti-virus go crazy today.
Yeah mine too. I’ve been getting all these malware warnings…
Aaahhh…Nothing says coronary apocalypse better than deep friend butter….You’ll die but with a smile on your face!
I can honestly say I’d eat five of the items up there (I’ll pass on the bagel sandwich, and lasagna does NOT contain cheddar cheese, no matter how much I love cheddar).
While on vacation in the Florida Keys a few years ago, I had deep-fried key lime pie at a little eatery in Bahia Honda (I think, don’t remember for sure). It was delicious.
I add authentic cheddar cheese to my lasagna and love every single bite of it. Of course, I never claim my lasagna is 100% Italian (I’m not Italian, so why would I claim that anyway?) but I can’t understand why people are so uptight about deviating from the original recipe. Stop being so snobby, peeps, and enjoy your food!
I’m not Italian either but the only “inauthentic” parts of my lasagna recipe are that I use bottled spaghetti sauce (Paul Newman’s finest!) for the saucey part of the lasagna and dried herbs in the ricotta cheese mixture. Otherwise I use regular lasagna noodles, real ricotta, mozarella, and parmesan cheeses, and Italian sausage and mushrooms. And it tastes awesome!
BTW, I’m not snobby at all (I only watch Ina Garten to snark at her/the show and I can’t stand Miss Silver Spoons Giada), and I’m gagging at the thought of cheddar cheese in lasagna.
So what! who cares if she stuffed a fucking whole cow and dropped it into a vat of boiling oil and then covered it with sour cream, cheese, butter and eggs and at it all herself. Last I check not a single person on planet earth thinks her food even approaches healthy. Every chef on every show I have ever seen lauds bacon fat, deep frying things, bacon, lard, fried chicken, etc. Not one single chef I have ever seen cooks healthily. If anyone chooses to eat this crap everyday, then oh well, they’ll be unhealthy. Not my problem. I like fried things too but I have never tried to eat them every day and if I did, then it’s my fault for doing it, no one elses. and don’t give me this paula deen diabetic bs. diabetes is genetic. you can’t get it simply by eating an unhealthy diet. grow the fuk up
I think I need to go to the gym just from reading this.
What — no pics of Deep Fried (Captain) Grooober, served on a roll with coleslaw and a dill pickle?
teehee!
Why have I started getting Malware warnings from the Pophangover.com network in the last day or two?
I have too, but it seems to be ok now…
More than likely, it was from an infected banner ad or something. I’ve seen quite a few legit sites get hit by this sort of thing. But it’s gone now I guess.
I believe it was a false positive. I had an internet security company look into it – and it has been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience guys.
Yeah, deep-fried mac and cheese… in December I had deep-fried mac and cheese inside grilled cheese. I know, I know… I feel ill thinking about how unhealthy it is. But oh my god…
The sad thing? I’ve had both fried mac and cheese and fried cheesecake.
The fried mac and cheese balls were from a food truck
The fried cheesecake was at a Japanese resaurant with tenpura batter. So good I ate two slices T_T
So unhealthy…
If Paula ever gets canceled from FN, she’s got a second career as a vendor on the state fair circuit. Those guys will deep fry anything.
She might also look into working at a Scottish chip shop. I’m thinking deep-fried mac&cheese would make a nice side order for a King Rib (think of a batter-dipped and deep-fried McRib patty, with your choice of BBQ or “Chinese spice” flavored seasoning).
wow alot of that looks like shriveled genitals
Hey now, don’t hate on fried mac ‘n cheese. Try the right recipe and it’s actually very tasty. My personal first experience was at Lucky Strike Lanes in LA, and they were unbelievably delicious! No one’s asking anyone to make them a daily staple of their diet, but much like candy bars and cheesecake, enjoy them instead as an occasional treat.
The fried butter, however, sounds disgusting. I’m seriously floored that anyone would even think about eating that. I feel like I’m breaking out just thinking about it. Reminds me of the time my friends bought a deep fryer and one of them insisted that we make fried mayonnaise balls just for the novelty. Thankfully, I’m pretty sure he never got around to it…
I wish Food Network would stop showing that same “Pioneer Woman” commercial every five minutes, the one where she talks about how flat apple pie is perfect for “cowboys on the go.”
Either get a new spot for that episode or stop showing it!
I like to joke with friends that Paula would eat fried butter. Guess I wasn’t exaggerating enough.
As for fried cheesecake, eww. I had some once and the taste of lukewarm cream cheese put me off it after one bite.
The fried mac&cheese isn’t original to her at all, as others have pointed out, but the recipe goes back rather further than people think. I have a Depression-era “Delineator” cookbook that includes a recipe for mac&cheese “croquettes.” Jack in the Box was doing them for a short while too, a year or so ago, and they weren’t too bad if you could get them made up early enough that the kitchen’s oil wasn’t rancid and doughnut-scented.
Just about everything’s okay, in moderation.
I sent in the video of the fried Man N’ Cheese quite a while back and my opinion remains the same- it is still is big ol’ bucket of nasty!
I remember a special when Paula traveled to Europe and Paula tried to Paulafy as sandwich in England, but she was lectured sternly by the Englishwoman who made the sandwich saying, “When in England, do as the English do.” In the end, she was shamed into it. Thank God there is some culture left that defies Paula Deen. I do hope she comes to Italy because I would love to see some Italians shame her into cooking and eating Italian fodd, the Italian way. There’ll be no deep frying of Lasagne there Paula.
I love that English woman. For real. I mean, if you’re going to go to a foreign country, I would think you’d try to embrace as many things endemic to that foreign country as possible. And maybe I’m feeling so vehement about this because I’ve been an Anglophile for nearly all my life, but if I were in England and got the chance to learn real English recipes from real English people, I’d sure as heck try to LEARN them instead of trying to do my own thing with them and not try to do them authentically.
Though it’s weird how I feel less bitter rage about this incident/the idea of Paula being in England than I do about the whole “Ina Garten goes to England” special. Now THAT left me feeling rage to the point of being speechless. That horrible Francophile hag DARED to try to hone in on English culture AND only explored the richie rich parts that are as divorced from real English culture as it comes! And if she actually did her research, she’d have found out that there’s a HUGE English/French rivalry!! How dare the ass-kissing-all-French-people witch try to play it like she actually loved English culture!
Does anyone remember the special? When she had her husband, the poor man’s Santa with her.
You’re all cunts – fact
The same to you, Sir.
What about the “deep fried” buttermilk Grands Biscuits. She then took the fried biscuit and squeezed melted butter and honey into it.
If I have a terminal illness, I am going to have to try that one..
Up next – Paula Deen’s deep fried deep frying fat.
Now thats disgusting!
EEEWWWW!!!!!!!!
I had deep fried cheese cake balls once when I was little and thought they were good… They were 1″ balls of the filling, rolled in the graham cracker crumbs, put on sticks and fried…. I guess I liked them ’cause there were 3 and I was like 6…
Those butter bullets look more like something she crapped out after maybe trying to detox. >:)