Esquire's Worst (and Best) Cooking Shows Shows - Page 2

Pluff Mudder · 08-24-2008, 06:30 PM

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where hijinks, hair, and cleavage have replaced the authoritative

I guess he likes Giada De Laurentis' hair and cleavage. I think she's one of the biggest users of cleavage on FN.

MiseEnPlace · 08-24-2008, 06:54 PM

I'm kind of surprised that I don't watch more shows with guys after making my comment

Outside of going all fangirl with AB, I'm fairly balanced in watching both sexes.
The females, I like Ellie and Ina. I use to watch Paula (still like her older episodes) but she's gotten on my nerves lately. The males (other than Alton!), I like Michael C and Aaron and Tyler.

Pluff Mudder · 08-24-2008, 07:07 PM

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I use to watch Paula (still like her older episodes) but she's gotten on my nerves lately.

Just don't watch Paula's Party and you'll be okay. I had to quit watching it because it was getting on my nerves. Both of her other two shows are the "old" Paula... more like having your grandmaw in the kitchen.

MiseEnPlace · 08-24-2008, 07:10 PM

Yes, I stay far, far away from Paula's Party

I haven't caught her new show yet.

ibcheft · 08-24-2008, 08:05 PM

What was surprising was that Giada and her mother both got their cleavage at the same time, mother daughter bonding.

PicBuddy · 08-24-2008, 08:38 PM

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Yes, I stay far, far away from Paula's Party

I haven't caught her new show yet.

I've never managed to leave the TV even turned on after "Party' comes on. Twice now I have switched away from that horror. Because see, if you don't, even in your sleep you will still keep hearing that squelchy cackling "HAOW WE DOIN' YAW-O"!

Oh mercy. Someone must ask themselves, just as a reality check, "Have you ever heard anyone in your life, that talks like that?" That's because no one does. That's not a real southern accent or drawl, and I don't care if she is from a suburb of regional Atlanta or Nashville or whatever, no one talks like that over there either. Heheh

But I am sure she's a nice lady, and I wouldn't hesitate to try her chicken fried steak recipe. But I will just get it off the Internet, thank you....

Pluff Mudder · 08-25-2008, 02:18 AM

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I've never managed to leave the TV even turned on after "Party' comes on. Twice now I have switched away from that horror. Because see, if you don't, even in your sleep you will still keep hearing that squelchy cackling "HAOW WE DOIN' YAW-O"!

Oh mercy. Someone must ask themselves, just as a reality check, "Have you ever heard anyone in your life, that talks like that?" That's because no one does. That's not a real southern accent or drawl, and I don't care if she is from a suburb of regional Atlanta or Nashville or whatever, no one talks like that over there either. Heheh

But I am sure she's a nice lady, and I wouldn't hesitate to try her chicken fried steak recipe. But I will just get it off the Internet, thank you....

Folks around here - and me included - do say "how y'all doin'" when greeting someone in either person or on the phone. It just a bit of that Southern politeness our mommas taught us, just like saying "No sir" and "Yes sir" when talking to our elders. But, we say it in a normal volume and don't go shouting it... but then, we're not on TV having to say it to a room full of people.

People in TX have a difference Southern accent than other parts of the South... and yes, people in parts of GA and the Carolinas (mainly the rural areas) do sound like Paula. So, it is a real accent or drawl for her. I've heard plenty of it... in fact, I have a neighbor that has that same accent.

PicBuddy · 08-25-2008, 02:36 AM

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Folks around here - and me included - do say "how y'all doin'" when greeting someone in either person or on the phone. It just a bit of that Southern politeness our mommas taught us, just like saying "No sir" and "Yes sir" when talking to our elders. But, we say it in a normal volume and don't go shouting it... but then, we're not on TV having to say it to a room full of people.

People in TX have a difference Southern accent than other parts of the South... and yes, people in parts of GA and the Carolinas (mainly the rural areas) do sound like Paula. So, it is a real accent or drawl for her. I've heard plenty of it... in fact, I have a neighbor that has that same accent.

Wow, this is interesting. Amazing to have lived in the same somewhat small regional country (the US) for 50 years and have never heard that accent before. I do have an uncle that lives in Atlanta and has for as long as I can remember, and when visiting him, he doesn't talk like that, nor does anyone we have ever met there. But granted we have only gone to visit him about 20 times and normally stay less than a week.

"How ya doin' ya'll" is probably the most common and equally respectful and sincere term down here in Texas as well. But see, that's not what Paula is saying. She is shreaking some "Haa yaa doin' HOWLL". I'm tellin you it's not natural.

I see what you are saying and don't question it as being right, after all you live there. But perhaps could you give an example of any video of any person on the entire planet (like maybe from Youtube) that shows another single person with that extreme accent? I don't feel that it's natural and no one really talks like that, that I have ever heard in my life. Well except for on some 70's TV programs like Colombo where Californians tried to fake southern accents. (Oh yeah, and Dallas). I thought the facination of faking a southern accent had long been busted and done away with, with the real thing coming into play instead.

What it is, is a capitalization and commercialization of an accent that has been dramatically amplified and modified. And to us here in Texas, it's very insulting. Because it's degrading. It makes southern women look like absolute idiots, and that's not really right at all.

So, show us an example of one other person on the planet that talks like that... I wanna see that.

I mean, I don't doubt you at all, it's just amazing to me that in a country as small as the US that there can be some drawl that no one has ever heard in their lives. And hey, maybe that's why she has some shows, cause she's -extremely- rare. Hehehe

PicBuddy · 08-25-2008, 03:00 AM

Pluff Mudder - Since it's so late you probably won't read this until tomorrow anyway, but I want to re-phrase what I said just now, to try to be more polite.

When I joined this board a little over a month ago, it was just for fun, to mess around and see what other people may think of the channels, that I admit, I watch WAY way too much. I didn't realize that there were cool people here, and the more I get to know people, I am trying to tame my very opinionated approach and listen more than blather. I am starting to see that there are some good people here and I should be more courteous.

So, that being said.... I worked as a long distance operator for 7 years for LDDS MetroMedia (then MCI), (the CEO is in prison now), but I talked to people in Atlanta almost every day. For 7 years.

Now you say that this Paula Deen accent is normal? I am sorry but I have never heard it. Just how far out in the country do this people live and do they not have phones out there?

How could there be a small regional outskirts area of Atlanta with such an extreme and obscrure accent that it's revolting to other real southerners? Well, I don't think that place exists. I think what Paula is doing is amplifying an already unique accent and twisting and squeching it to an offensive non-natural, fake level, for commercial reasons.

I mean, she can get as jack-hammered (that's regional Texan for drunk) as she wants to, and leech on all the young men as she cares, and that really doesn't bother me. It's her trashing, and absolute disrespect for a normal southern accent, thus bringing the very display of "southern women" into disrepute that bothers me.

PS: Sorry this post is all in bold. I didn't select bold and can't figure out how to turn it off...

BerryBaby · 08-25-2008, 02:35 PM

I went to high school with a girl that spoke like Paula. Not sure where they originally lived in the south ... our high school was in the Chicago area.

I lived in Chicago for 24 years and never picked up the Chicago accent. Some people don't. Others pick up accents and they stay with them forever.

You may not have ever heard it, but there are all types of accents all over the country.