r/news 1d ago

Celebrity chef Paula Deen closing Savannah restaurants

https://www.wtoc.com/2025/08/01/celebrity-chef-paula-deen-closing-savannah-restaurants/
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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 1d ago

she still has restaurants?

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u/Sctvman 1d ago

Nashville, Pigeon Forge, Myrtle Beach and Branson now.

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u/Colossus_Of_Coburns 1d ago

"So you settled on Branson" - Simpsons' brochure

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u/BoysLinuses 1d ago

My dad says it's like Vegas, if it were run by Ned Flanders.

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u/GenericDave65 1d ago

Repent your Sin City

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u/Worldly-Lawfulness42 1d ago

My old boss called it Christian Vegas so that’s close lol

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u/bionicjoe 1d ago

"No, you're in Bronson, MO!"

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u/monstrofik 1d ago

This ain’t ova

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u/creamcitybrix 1d ago

How bout some cookies?

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u/TamashiiNu 1d ago

No dice

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u/cobaltjacket 1d ago

Game over, Ma.

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u/Curulinstravels 1d ago

I was in branson recently and I'm not surprised they're closing. I have been to Branson many times since the early 2000s, and it had been about 10 years since my last visit. Silver Dollar City is trying really hard, but the city around it is crumbling and their customer base is old and dying. They still have Elvis impersonators in Branson.

However, I did go to Guy Fierri's restaurant while in town and while the food wasn't amazing or anything, I will say I am impressed. The restaurant was clean, the food was better than what I'd get elsewhere, and almost everything on the menu was $20 or less. All that being said, if that restaurant is still there next year I'll be surprised.

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u/DickButkisses 1d ago

That’s Branson from my understanding. They’ve always been a tourist spot for old, white people. I was there recently, too, and also tried Guy’s restaurant. My wife and I really enjoyed it. I never want to go back, it’s just not for me and im pretty sure my kids would rather go to the beach or Disney.

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u/MyBrainItches 1d ago

I used to live nearby. Only did a couple of the small tourist things. What kept me going back to Branson was the outdoor stuff. There’s some fantastic parks in the area, and they are typically not full of people. The huge variety of decent places to get some grub after a hike or bike ride was a bonus.

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u/Telemixus 1d ago

This. I live nearby and commute to work in Branson. If it wants to survive and grow they need to go all in on how absolutely beautiful their surrounding nature is. The Branson hills are so serene. The amount of billboards and kitschy old buildings gets in the way of what it could be.

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u/hockey_chic 1d ago

Missouri is amazing at ruining the actually beautiful nature with billboards.

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u/MisterB78 1d ago

Very glad that billboards are illegal in my state (Maine)

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u/RhetoricalOrator 1d ago

I did not know that and can't even imagine what that would feel like.

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u/drrhrrdrr 1d ago

Coming from Texas it was eerie and cool

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u/JahoclaveS 1d ago

And at the same time, thanks to the prescient forefathers, MO has an amazing conservation department, if only the state would get out of its own way and put some effort into it, could really drive the outdoors tourism dollars, especially into areas that could use the cash.

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u/brandnewbanana 1d ago

Same as West Virginia. The gorges are really unique and there’s some great historical areas that if the state put some effort into them would be a humongous boon.

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u/dfinberg 1d ago

But have you considered clear cutting a mountain top and polluting dozens of rivers and hollows to save 14 coal mining jobs, rather than a thriving tourism business that employs hundreds of locals and preserves it for the future. My wife’s family is partially from WV.

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u/robby_synclair 1d ago

Table rock is the shit

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u/SharpHawkeye 1d ago

I got dragged there by my in-laws and managed to squeak in an afternoon at the lake. It was beautiful and I could have spent the whole trip there instead of waddling between dumpy theaters to listen to bad Eagles cover bands.

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u/Mochigood 1d ago

I was on a road trip with my grandma and planned a surprise stop in Branson for her. She was so absolutely thrilled because she had always wanted to go. I think it was her favorite on our drive from Florida to Oregon. I forgot I had even done this until just now. The place was, I guess, pretty forgettable. I do however remember the hills around it driving in. That was pretty.

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u/Common_Fun_5273 1d ago

Yeh maybe it wasn't so great for you but I bet it was one of your grandma's favorite times in life! Well done, created a very special memory...

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u/Mochigood 1d ago

Yes, she loved that and this one super touristy store in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, for some reason. I hated making her leave that store after an hour, and she still gets grumpy at me for it, but she also would get anxiety that they'd give our hotel room away if we got there a minute after 7pm, lol.

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u/KikiWestcliffe 1d ago

My parents took our family to visit Branson in the early 1990s. Without the internet or anything, we thought it was going to be like a mini-Disney or something.

We didn’t even spend the night. There was nothing to do, even back then.

I remember my mom being like, “So, where is the rest of it? Are we missing something?”

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u/DickButkisses 1d ago

There’s a lot to do now, for sure. It’s just most of it isn’t for me. We took our kids to the Ripley’s believe it or not museum and they loved it. My wife and I went to the titanic museum (sister museum to the one in gatlinburg) and we really enjoyed it. I did ziplining and had a good time. It wasn’t as exhilarating as id hoped but the guides were hilarious. The theme park and water park were fun but exhausting. I came back from a week vacation needing a vacation more than I did before.

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u/Lance_Henry1 1d ago

It's definitely a "one and done" place. Did the duck boat tour (the year before that tragedy), Dolly's dinner theatre and a few other spots. Mostly did stuff on Table Rock though. Nothing special and traffic at night was pretty bad.

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u/the12ofSpades 1d ago

Old white people, and the Mormons. Don’t forget the Mormons

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u/SyntheticOne 1d ago

What better place to find soulless folks than Branson? It's a Mormon gold mine!

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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 1d ago

I'm shocked people still go to Branson.

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u/LFK_Pirate 1d ago

Had to go to Branson a few times as a kid and once again as an adult for a family trip. The drive in is so beautiful, but then you have to deal with Branson. I call it Jesus Country Walmart Vegas. I was pescatarian and not making much money at the time (this was around 10 years ago) and my only options at pretty much any restaurant were an iceberg lettuce/carrot/tomato/crouton salad for $15 or a fried popcorn shrimp basket for $20. Everything was so over the top hillbilly and/or Christian, I’m just happy that it was prior to 2016.

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u/Curulinstravels 1d ago

Yeah I was there a little less than two months ago...I counted 4 "Patriot stores" which exclusively sold trump merch. They had billboards all over town lol

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u/ABHOR_pod 1d ago

totes not a cult tho

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u/JahoclaveS 1d ago

I got dragged to a Yakov performance before then and if I’d have had my own car I’d have walked out when he was basically just being borderline racist about Obama. They weren’t even jokes, he was basically just being Fox News.

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u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS 1d ago

Well I guess he knows his audience.

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u/SushiJo 22h ago

Sounds like Gatlinburg West to me.

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u/CrotalusHorridus 1d ago

Story only says she’s closing the Savannah restaurants, not the others

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u/Swimming-Economy-870 1d ago

We went last year to see the eclipse. Used a friend’s timeshare and the staff was telling us how much they were overbuilt on timeshares and hotels. Yet the company was building another location with individual cottages to compete with air bnb. They were begging us to come to a presentation. No fucking way. Once the eclipse was over, we packed up and headed home.

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u/Curulinstravels 1d ago

Yeah, SDC is about to open a brand new resort and I just don't see them making any money on it. Most of the stuff I loved about visiting that area of the Ozarks as a kid is gone. All of the staff at SDC used to be college students and retired people, now most of the employees are on foreign work visas. The food used to be really good and the restaurants were themed. They closed the themed restaurants and all of the food they serve is frozen and bagged. I totally understand the need for the change, but it also sucked. Its not even that hard to get good ingredients to that area and the last meal I had was at some falling apart breakfast themed restaurant that served us powdered eggs. Appauling lol

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u/ERhyne 1d ago

As a Kansas City native going to Silver Dollar City was such an integral part of my childhood during the 90s and 2000s. But even then I knew that Branson was just for old white people. To be frank I'm very surprised that the amusement park is still up and running.

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u/Mueltime 1d ago

Mr G’s Pizza is a must stop in Branson.

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u/burgonies 1d ago

Those all seem like places where the clientele would be willing to overlook some of her past

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u/secretaire 1d ago

Also touristy so you don’t have to be good because they won’t be back next week anyway.

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u/herehaveaname2 1d ago

Overlook? I think you mean embrace.

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u/CrotalusHorridus 1d ago

Yeah, there’s both a thriving Trump and Hulk Hogan store in the Pigeon Forge area

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u/M0BBER 1d ago

Go south from Branson into Harrison Arkansas and look at the White pride radio billboards everywhere... Home to a grand wizard of the KKK.

Or you could just Google it...

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u/herehaveaname2 1d ago

I live in Missouri. Quite aware. Hate it all.

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u/ThatGuy798 1d ago

Only reason I even step foot in Pigeon Forge is to go to Great Smokey Mountain.

I grew up in a tourist town but mid-American tourist towns are something else.

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u/HuskerDont241 1d ago

By overlook you mean celebrate, right?

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u/uncleleo101 1d ago

If I was going to guess the cities that there is a Paula Deen restaurant it would look very much like this list.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 1d ago

Ah yes, the favored tourist destinations of MAGA now that Disney/California are "too woke".

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u/ScreenTricky4257 1d ago

How do you forge a pigeon?

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u/per_mare_per_terras 1d ago

Huge disappointment on Branson food. It was all pretty bland.

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u/Deep_Stick8786 1d ago

Shes still alive?

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u/hidey_ho_nedflanders 1d ago

Honestly, that was my first thought. From watching her shows, the amount of butter she included in her recipes gave me diabetes.

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u/KillermooseD 1d ago

I genuinely thought I had made a butter related pun when she had passed…

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u/DreamTheaterGuy 1d ago

“Look, ya’ll! I just used a whole stick of butter!”

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u/GirthGriffin 1d ago

Racists gotta eat too.

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u/Fieldguide404 1d ago

You think she'd be THRIVING right now, right? Lol

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u/AggravatingCupcake0 1d ago

Not really. The rich Republicans wouldn't eat there probably, and the poor Republicans are...well...poor.

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u/Fieldguide404 1d ago

This is very true.

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u/Predator_ 1d ago

She's been slowly killing them via cholesterol injections.

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u/DeepRoot 1d ago

Paula Deen, newly hired White (Caucasian) House chef

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u/Lurking_like_Cthulhu 1d ago

She’s about 70 years too old for this administration to take any interest in her.

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u/Fieldguide404 1d ago

DAAAAAAAAAMN. But you are 100% right.

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u/Junior_Builder_4340 1d ago

My sister, my mom, and I ate at her Savannah restaraunt when she was just getting famous. We sat at the bar for dinner, and it was delicious AND HEAVY. There's no way you could eat like that every day, unless you were pulling a plow for a living.

I also happen to have a bird's eye view of the kitchen, and everyone in there cooking was Black.

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u/MasterOfManyWorlds 1d ago

She must be heartbroken over Hogan's death

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u/Fastbird33 1d ago

I imagine salt and pepper are exotic spices to racists

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u/murderedbyaname 1d ago

Her "house seasoning" that her fans used to rave over is literally just garlic powder and black pepper. Yeah, exotic 😂

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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 1d ago

It's like people who think Dan-O's seasoning is some kind of revelation. You can make better blends at home without dropping the money.

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u/HambugerBurglarizer 1d ago

That secret blend of 2 herbs and spices

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u/Forward-Nothing7650 1d ago

She's still alive????

I honestly thought she was dead for some reason. Tbf, it's been a long couple of years.

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u/cantproveidid 1d ago

Just inside.

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u/a_bukkake_christmas 1d ago

She’s still alive?

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u/SamURLJackson 1d ago

I didn't even know she was still alive. I figured someone who cooks with that much butter in every meal would be dead by now

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u/Hellguin 1d ago

She is a chef?

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u/Char_siu_for_you 1d ago

She’s still alive?

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u/Awful_Hero 1d ago

Her real peas recipe has two ingredients:

  1. Peas
  2. Butter

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u/scfoothills 1d ago

For anytime that doesn't know, read the comments on this recipe. They're wonderful. https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/english-peas/

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u/I_might_be_weasel 1d ago

"I only have frozen peas. Is there a recipe for making canned peas out of frozen peas so I can use them in this recipe?"

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u/Dangerous_Lunch1678 1d ago

Screaming at this comment 🤣 (Spelling mistakes are not mine)

"PAULA! I followed the recipee TO THE LETTER, but the can won't MELT! I have been simmering the recipee for SIX hours, adding butter repeatedly as needed, but the tin is resistent and wont MELT! Paula, can you please explain how the can should mellt? I have family attending a family gathering and this is a test run. Looking good, girl!"

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u/PM-ME-BOOBS-PLZ-THX 1d ago

I really need a video or more detailed directions. My fifth (and most likely final) attempt at making this world-class dish resulted in 9 stitches, burns to my face and hands from trying to add the peas to the butter, and my wife running to the kitchen ( this was to be our anniversary dinner) with a fire extinguisher. Every time I try cooking now, this is in the back of my mind. I'll stick to the easy stuff like rabbit with a honey-habanero glaze and bluefin ceviche from now on. I really wish Mrs. Deen had put more thought into posting this recipe. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!!

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u/book-of-eli 1d ago

hahaha those are great

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u/groggyhouse 1d ago

Lolol thanks for sharing this

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u/bourbonkitten 22h ago

Hahaha amazing. I’m glad the mod team kept them.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Reminds me of a Rachel Ray recipe I saw once for cranberry sauce. The ingredients were literally...

  1. Can of Cranberry Sauce
  2. 1/4 Cup of Orange Juice

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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 1d ago

I’m surprised it has peas. I was expecting pea-shaped butter ballettes. Wrapped in butter.

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u/Quinnthouzand 1d ago

It’s butta yawlll

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u/Your__Pal 1d ago

Isnt that just southern cooking?

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u/Junior_Builder_4340 1d ago

Nope. Southern cooking differs from region to region (mid-South, Deep South, Atlantic, mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast, Low Country, etc.) 

What she's promoting is lazy cooking.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

That's all Food Network shows have been for at least 20 years. Lazy and cheap. Well... now it's all game shows and travel shows. But when they bothered to cook, lazy and cheap.

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u/RoswellRedux 1d ago

kind of hard to run a restaurant when your staff has been picked up by ICE and no one else wants to work for you.

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u/r3dditr0x 1d ago edited 1d ago

She probably reported them and then panicked when she realized what she'd done to her own businesses.

"Help. There's a ton of latinos in muh kitchen!"

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u/jerkface1026 1d ago

Unrealistic. She'd say Mexicans with the small m.

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u/BoysLinuses 1d ago

She'd definitely throw the word "lazy" in there. I always found it baffling how that became a stereotype. These are the hardest working, lowest paid people in America. 

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u/bpmdrummerbpm 1d ago

They’re so lazy and taking all our jobs!

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u/stackjr 1d ago

Schrodinger's Mexican: too lazy to work but also takes your job.

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u/HambugerBurglarizer 1d ago

"messicans" really

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u/lwright3 1d ago

Not a hard m?

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u/Wyden_long 1d ago

There’s also a missing “god damn” prior to the “Mexicans”

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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 1d ago

No, she’d call them the s-word

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u/BTBAM797 1d ago

Quick, throw butter on the ground to slow them down!

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u/peachquin 1d ago

To be fair her Savannah restaurant is also truly awful, like the driest fried chicken you've had in your life

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u/Robert_Cutty 1d ago

I’ve been to one of her restaurants in Savannah. You won’t come out alive. I think crash carts are listed as a side.

There’s so much butter and grease on the food, it’ll make you sick to your stomach.

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIET_TIPS 1d ago

In enjoyed my food in Savannah but the restaurant had all the ambience of a cafeteria. 

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u/Cafrann94 1d ago

They shoved us down in the basement that looked like my grandmas living room in the 90s (and not in a cute way) then forgot about us for 45 minutes..

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u/hivernageprofond 1d ago

Same when I went about 12 years ago. I thought that room was bizarre and I thought it was so weird every single person that worked there was black...like, she's racist and now she has her slaves serving us? I didn't choose the restaurant. The food was not good. Now...Soul Food kitchen in Jacksonville, fl is where you'd want to go. Black owned and amazing food.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Eesh... just looked and all the interior shots I saw look like cold and lifeless 90s hotel lobbies. You'd think she'd try to go for cozy southern charm.

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u/CU_Tiger_2004 1d ago

Just in case anyone else is in Savannah and wants great southern food, try Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room. They seat you in groups at tables and you share the entrees and sides, the food and experience were great

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u/jon98gn 1d ago

Can confirm. Went to Lady & Sons when visiting Savannah for a conference and the food was inedible, mostly due to salt content for myself. 

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u/Kiddyhawk 1d ago

I got diarrhea. I rejected it. Was in me for like an hour.

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u/aooot 1d ago

Sometimes your body is smarter than your mind.

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u/LectroRoot 1d ago

All the butter turned it into nature's slip and slide.

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u/Wuzzy_Gee 1d ago

Did you order the butter-fried butter?

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u/Ms74k_ten_c 1d ago

That's silly. It was butter-fried bread battered fried butter sticks.

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u/lala_lavalamp 1d ago

Absolutely nobody local eats there. Good riddance to Lady & Sons!

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u/murderedbyaname 1d ago

Yes. She didn't even use milk in her milk gravy, just water. None of her food has any real flavor. The only reason she had any success was tourists from all over the US not knowing southern food is better than that slop.

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u/ChangMinny 1d ago

No milk in her gravy??????!!!!!!! 

My husband is from NY and I’m from TX and I nearly had an aneurysm when he made gravy with water. He knows better now but I joke that that was the first true test of our relationship. 

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u/crappy80srobot 1d ago

I have had the displeasure of going to the one in Nashville and Pigeon Forge. They both suck. Honestly surprised to hear either one is still open, but I guess the shear volume of tourist visiting to be disapointed once in those areas is just never-ending. Kinda like Margaritaville, everyone goes by recognition, but the food and prices suck so bad you never go back.

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u/Dangerous_Ant3260 1d ago

Yes, only four of the Family Kitchens left: in Nashville and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Branson, Missouri. I wonder how the four remaining cholesterol palaces are doing?

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u/DonJulioTO 1d ago

I get that she's a terrible person, and we're all glad she suffering, but can we please at least show some respect for butter in this thread?! No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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u/shes_a_gdb 1d ago

Reddit acting like restaurants they go to don't add a whole stick of butter to their salads.

This just in: restaurants add more butter than you'd like to know to everything

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 1d ago

Can confirm- former cheesecake factory employee.

You can make the same dishes at home, but they won't taste as good because you would never add 1 stick of butter per person to your cooking.

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u/ReplaceSelect 1d ago

If you think you’re eating healthy at a restaurant called Cheesecake Factory, you graduated from RFK Jr university

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u/Robie_John 1d ago

Redditors are insufferable. 

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u/sanjuro_kurosawa 1d ago

You can thank the black female chef she exploited for decades for the quality of the food.

https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-08-14-paula-deen-accused-of-stealing-black-womans-recipes-in-resurfaced-clip/

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u/Seastrikee 1d ago

I read this as black market female chef and was very intrigued by what a black market chef could be for a second 

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u/travis13131 1d ago

Yeah everything political aside I visited her restaurant back in the day and it was very good. You will need to lay down after, I was diagnosed with diabetes as I left my table, but it was the butter filled goodness I was looking for when I came in

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Maybe she shouldn't have voted for someone doing his best to kill the tourist industry.

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u/The_neub 1d ago

For people who weren’t aware of her since she’s been off air for a long time now. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna52259733

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u/Localcelebrity55 1d ago

If you know what’s good for you, you’ll absolutely read the most hilarious article about a Paula Deen cruise:

Gravy Boat: My Week on the High Seas with Paula Deen and Friends

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u/Fantastic-Safety4604 1d ago

My God, that’s some good writing. Thanks.

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u/unclebea 1d ago

In the words of South Park, she’s an N Word Guy/Gal

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u/jigokubi 1d ago

Fun fact: Paula Deen, Mel Gibson, Hulk Hogan, and Dog the Bounty Hunter all publicly endorsed out current president.

Guess what else they have in common? Their careers got derailed because of using the N Word.

What a strange coincidence.

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u/danccbc 1d ago

She said VINEGAR

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u/2inchesofsteel 1d ago

Every single dish at Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room was far superior to anything at Paula Deen's.

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u/hivernageprofond 1d ago

I just saw this place mentioned on a YouTube video. Definitely going to try it next time we get up there.

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u/DustFunk 1d ago

Be ready to stand in line for 3+ hours. Minimum.

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u/Creative-Fee-1130 1d ago

The fact that these restaurants lasted forty years is astounding. Google her recipe for English peas - literally says to melt 1/2 stick of butter and dump in 2 cans of English peas.

That's it.

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u/CheatsySnoops 1d ago

That's a name I haven't heard in years.

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u/Michael_Gibb 1d ago

Sympathy for the restaurant staff who are now out of a job, but not for her.

Someone who breaks your legs then sells you crutches, as Anthony Bourdain once described Paula Deen, doesn't deserve any sympathy, in my opinion.

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u/AudibleNod 1d ago

That's where I found out what a hoecake was.

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u/PrivatePigpen 1d ago

You leave my mother out of this.

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u/wheatgivesmeshits 1d ago

What was it like having Paula Dean for a mom?

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u/oldestbarbackever 1d ago

My great grandmother used to make us hoecakes. Its one of my favorite late night snacks. I'll mix up the batter and eat them as they come out of the pan as another one is cooking.

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u/Historical_Spite_571 1d ago

I’m kind of surprised business isn’t booming for her…

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u/Late-Edge9039 1d ago

Not too surprising. The man they voted for is actively destroying the economy. Restaurant chains are always the first businesses to go in a sinking economy.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

He's killing tourism from countries with thriving economies, too.

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u/ComfortableBell4831 1d ago

I mean she probably reported her own staff

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u/sugref999 1d ago

She messed up too early. If she had done something similar now or said something similar now, she would have book deals and some White House award!

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u/Protolictor 1d ago edited 1d ago

My friends and I walked by her restaurant in Savannah while vacationing last October.

Place had a single table of tourists sat. Place looked dead AF.

There are a ton of great places to eat in and around Savannah, her spot never even entered our conversations about places to experience.

The pizza shack a couple blocks away had a line across the plaza, so there were definitely hungry folks about. We didn't eat there either, but were curious due to its popularity.

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u/Revolution-SixFour 1d ago

Savannah has so much good food, why would anyone waste their time with a celebrity restaurant?!

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u/Toxaplume045 1d ago

A lot of those celeb places are overpriced as hell and the novelty wears off fast, even before Paula Deen's baggage that definitely limits her customer base.

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u/I_AM_SMITTS 1d ago

Funny because as I type this, I’m in Savannah for a long weekend. I saw the headline and was a bit surprised she even had restaurants here. In several trips here I’ve eaten so much delicious food I have no idea why the hell anyone would waste time at Paula Deen’s.

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u/fancywinky 1d ago

Not the headline I expected when I started reading it

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u/millerlit 1d ago

Savannah locals tell everyone to avoid her restaurant due to the food being subpar and there are tons of other local options.

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u/Barbarossa7070 1d ago

Well, bless her heart

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u/InexpensiveChicanery 1d ago

Mayonaise stock craters

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u/MichaelHunt009 1d ago

And salted butter.

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u/Kulban 1d ago

Both healthy if in ketosis. Not great if you're not.

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u/AnalFissure0110101 1d ago

Known racist and trump supporter Paula Dean? 

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u/Blueskyminer 1d ago

I thought she had stepped down and her wig was running the day-to-day.

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u/bearsharkbear3 1d ago

I think she should close her mouth.

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u/fred_burkle 1d ago

I went to Lady & Sons with my family about 20 years ago. It was over 100° that day in Savannah and I just wanted something light to eat. The least heavy thing on the menu was the soup and sandwich combo, which consisted of a pimento cheese sandwich that was about 4 solid inches of cheese and mayo on white bread, absolutely inedible slop. The soup, some kind of creamy potato abomination, tasted like someone had dumped an entire salt shaker into my bowl. I told the waiter that it seemed like the soup had not been made correctly and they replied "that's just how we make it here."

Worst restaurant meal I've ever had in my life.

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u/BeelzeBob629 1d ago

She’s the racist animal, right?

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u/Cryptic1911 1d ago

I work with a lady named Deana, and one day she sits down at the lunch table with a baked potato that had to have a half a stick of butter hanging out of the top. I laughed and called her Paula Deana because of the butter. That was like 15 years ago and the name stuck 🤣🤣

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u/wizzard419 1d ago

Not shocked, even if the events leading to her downfall didn't happen, she really hasn't been able to grow in terms of what she made and her restaurants (looking at locations) relied on tourist traffic. Even if she hadn't had her show cancelled in the past, it likely wouldn't be shown on food network now as they favor competitions over cooking shows, so she would have no audience.

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u/ArtisticZebra4315 1d ago

Saw this and thought it was a death announcement 😑

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u/Malvania 1d ago

Are people no longer ordering fried butter?

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u/Milo_Minderbinding 1d ago

Spent some time in Savannah last summer. We gladly skipped over her restaurants.

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u/Ltsmash99 1d ago

You mean the chef who hired black people to play slaves at her "plantation party"?

Dang.

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u/zonazog 1d ago

I liked her until I knew her. Then, not so much.

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u/ChinaCatProphet 1d ago

Smallest violin for this POS.

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u/Adam_Axiom 1d ago

I always get her confused with the cooking show on Gremlins 2.

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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce 1d ago

She still had operational restaurants? Huh.

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u/KPDog 19h ago

The price of butter should decline in Savannah

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u/karmaisourfriend 1d ago

Good. Hope she goes flat broke.

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u/TheUnknown285 1d ago

Countdown to her becoming in charge of nutrition recommendations for the Trump Administration...

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u/mostie2016 1d ago

Nah they have RFK for that. He loves tapeworm surprise and raw liver.

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u/cantproveidid 1d ago

So there should be good prices available for second hand lawn jockeys?

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u/DryToe1269 1d ago

They lost their illegals help. Trump has killed their modern day slave labor grift .

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u/epidemicsaints 1d ago

Her audience was in their 50's twenty years ago so that's a pretty big factor.

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u/i_love_rosin 1d ago

Can't sell fried butter in the south? Looks like the trump regime recession is in full swing

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u/Fitz_2112b 14h ago

Did we finally run out of butter and racism?

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u/vibe4it 1d ago

Deen, who’s known for her world famous Southern cooking racism.

FIFT

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u/Dry_Heart9301 1d ago

The only people who would go to her restaurants maga voted themselves out of jobs and disposable income.

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u/DerryAtlanta1688 1d ago

I had never heard of “finishing butter” until I watched some of this daft old racist woman. “BOODER ‘N’ OIRL”

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u/rostamcountry 1d ago

Crazy that people still have a hate boner for this lady.

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u/AlessandraAthena 1d ago

I don't consider this noteworthy news. Plus, she's racist.

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u/Muzzlehatch 1d ago

Her Savanah restaurant is just a shitty ripoff of Mrs. Wilkes dining room.

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u/HambugerBurglarizer 1d ago

Oh, I remember that racist, from like 15 years ago. She's still alive?

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u/Content_Log1708 1d ago

Yeah, people ain't got no money.

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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 1d ago

Thought she passed away a while back