Paula Deen fired from Food Network for racist comments

[Siege]

Should I read this thread?

Nah, neverwintermind.

[Ed Anger]

btw I ate at Paula Deen's restaurant in the Harrah's Cherokee Casino the other week.  It actually wasn't that great... nobody I was with was that impressed with it.  Like I ordered a 'lowcountry sampler' and I was expecting a lowcountry boil, but all of the seafood was breaded and deep fried and there was fried cod in it.   I believe Paula would be angry if she knew that's how they served it, since a lowcountry boil is a classic dish from Savannah and it's not even remotely prepared that way.

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[The Brain]

Cal, the Ide of food. No wait, they're both foodtards.

[Caliga]

Is that like Frogmore stew? 'Cause that's yummy, and deep-frying it would be wrong.

Yes, same thing.  One of the best meals I ever had was a lowcountry boil at a place on Tybee Island.

[crazy canuck]

btw I ate at Paula Deen's restaurant in the Harrah's Cherokee Casino the other week.  It actually wasn't that great... nobody I was with was that impressed with it.  Like I ordered a 'lowcountry sampler' and I was expecting a lowcountry boil, but all of the seafood was breaded and deep fried and there was fried cod in it.   I believe Paula would be angry if she knew that's how they served it, since a lowcountry boil is a classic dish from Savannah and it's not even remotely prepared that way.

What is lowcountry boil?

[ulmont]

btw I ate at Paula Deen's restaurant in the Harrah's Cherokee Casino the other week.  It actually wasn't that great... nobody I was with was that impressed with it.  Like I ordered a 'lowcountry sampler' and I was expecting a lowcountry boil, but all of the seafood was breaded and deep fried and there was fried cod in it.   I believe Paula would be angry if she knew that's how they served it, since a lowcountry boil is a classic dish from Savannah and it's not even remotely prepared that way.

What is lowcountry boil?

Typically shrimp (often swapped for crawfish in some areas), corn, potatoes, and sausage boiled in water with heavy spices.

Here's Paula Deen's recipe, in fact:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/low-country-boil-recipe/index.html

And an Alton Brown crawfish boil recipe showing the similarity, and also more detail on what spices are used:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/crawfish-boil-recipe/index.html

[Valmy]

Typically shrimp (often swapped for crawfish in some areas), corn, potatoes, and sausage boiled in water with heavy spices.

Ah yeah.  That's the stuff

[crazy canuck]

Typically shrimp (often swapped for crawfish in some areas), corn, potatoes, and sausage boiled in water with heavy spices.

That sounds good.

[Eddie Teach]

Sounds like it would work with fried shrimp too though. /shrug

[Admiral Yi]

Sounds like it would work with fried shrimp too though. /shrug

I think the whole point is to get the spices and pork flavor to permeate the other foods.  You won't get that with fried shrimp.

[ulmont]

Interesting.  Here only the material portions of a transcript can be used for such purposes and it would be considered an abuse of process amounting to a contempt of court to make further portions of the transcript public through filing in support of a motion.

"[A] strong presumption of public access applies to evidence admitted at trial or considered by the court to decide the merits of a case."

I finally saw a link to the Deen transcript, and as expected it was filed on the public record as an attachment:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/148813272/Transcript-of-the-Testimony-of-Paula-Deen-Date-May-17-2013

Typically shrimp (often swapped for crawfish in some areas), corn, potatoes, and sausage boiled in water with heavy spices.

That sounds good.

It's excellent.

Sounds like it would work with fried shrimp too though. /shrug

I think the whole point is to get the spices and pork flavor to permeate the other foods.  You won't get that with fried shrimp.

Not without making it hellishly soggy in the process, no.

EDIT: and cc, it's not like there weren't grounds pursuant to our federal rule 26 to seal that transcript:  "The court may, for good cause, issue an order to protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense"

[crazy canuck]

Interesting.  Here only the material portions of a transcript can be used for such purposes and it would be considered an abuse of process amounting to a contempt of court to make further portions of the transcript public through filing in support of a motion.

"[A] strong presumption of public access applies to evidence admitted at trial or considered by the court to decide the merits of a case."

As it is here.  The difference between our systems appears to be that the whole of the transcript is admitted into evidence there whereas only the material portions are admitted here.

[Caliga]

Sounds like it would work with fried shrimp too though. /shrug

No, it was completely different.  It wasn't *bad*, it just wasn't what I wanted and expected I would be getting.

[Ideologue]

Cal, the Ide of food. No wait, they're both foodtards.

Wrong.

What was Ide the Ide of before you corrected yourself?

[katmai]

Cal, the Ide of food. No wait, they're both foodtards.

Wrong.

What was Ide the Ide of before you corrected yourself?

Here's to your future Ide!

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