Paula Deen

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I haven't been keeping up with the news much here lately, but James brought this up in chat.

She and her brother are being sued for racial and sex discrimination by Lisa Jackson, the former manager of their Savannah, GA restaurant. During the deposition, Paula Deen admitted to having used the N-word back in the 90's.

Since the admission, she has been fired by Food Network, lost her deal with Smithfield Foods, and her deal with QVC is in limbo. She never used the word on TV or in public.

This knee-jerk reaction by everybody makes me sick.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/paula-deens-words-cost-empire/story?id=19484749
 
I was hearing there was a hell of alot more she said that was truly unacceptable. Something about a southern wedding, and wanting all of the N's dressed up as servants...
 
So, did she ever say it on the air or in front of Food Network management or employees? Did anybody from Food Network complain? Would you be upset to lose your multimillion dollar empire because some bitter ex-employee brought up stupid things you said in private?
 
AL9000 said:
So, did she ever say it on the air or in front of Food Network management or employees? Did anybody from Food Network complain? Would you be upset to lose your multimillion dollar empire because some bitter ex-employee brought up stupid things you said in private?
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THAT RIGHT THERE!!! If you work in the restaurant biz you better have some thick fuckin skin. I have said things so off color or in poor taste when telling jokes, I have threatened lives, I have degraded, I have even made a grown woman sit in the middle of an expo line and cry like a little school girl. THERE IS NO CRYING IN RESTAURANTS!!!!
 
Hey, I'm of the notion that it's at a point where it's reverse racism now. But that said, we're not in the public eye all the time and under scrutiny. We dont have umpteen different television shows (family oriented programming) on which our image is that of a squeaky clean mother/grandmother sharing family recipes. In her position, appearance and integrity are key. Just like when Tiger Woods, or Marv Albert, or any other celeb does something boneheaded, they are going to lose endorsements and sponsors adn money because of it. When you're in the public eye, you've gotta be smarter than that. She wasn't.
 
The thing is, she made the remarks before her stardom. How do you get fired today for something you said years ago?
 
Hard to say when those things were said, she grew up in the 50/60's when much of the country (especially the south) was racially segregated. Sometimes it can be hard to unlearn things like that.
 
chefhow said:
THAT RIGHT THERE!!! If you work in the restaurant biz you better have some thick fuckin skin. I have said things so off color or in poor taste when telling jokes, I have threatened lives, I have degraded, I have even made a grown woman sit in the middle of an expo line and cry like a little school girl. THERE IS NO CRYING IN RESTAURANTS!!!!
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I think we should listen to Dave Ramsey here!
 
Gordon Ramsey is the nastiest man in a kitchen next to the guy I apprenticed under. I had plates, soup terrines, pans and utensils thrown at me for three years and kept comi g back day after day. I was burned on purpose, almost stabbed thru the hand and hit across the knuckles when my knife cuts werent perfect and that was all on Monday morning!

My first day as an apprentice I was given a box of red onions, a box or red and a box of green bell peppers and given very specific instructions on how to cut them. Chef came thru with a ruler to make sure they were all the same and if they werent it was ugly. When I finished all if those he gave me a 50# bag of potatoes to peel and I was working next to an old potato peeling machine. I thought it wasn't working since it wasn't plugged in and 2 hrs later when I was done and my shift was over he came over and there was a potato with some skin left on it. Rather than yell at me he plugged in the machine, turned it on and cleaned the potato. He walked away laughing at me calling all kinds of names and said I expect you here at 6 am tomorrow morning ready to work. It was 3 long years but I learned more there than I have anywhere else and will be forever grateful to the rotten nasty mother fuckin pos son of a bitch.
 
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