Also Kung Fu Lunchbox

Recipe: Butter-fried sugar a la mode.

Obviously the most important matter of the day is Paula Deen’s diabetes.

I know I could go and read what other people are saying but I’m pretty sure I can anticipate the variety of opinions. This ain’t my first time round the router.

This being the interwebses, I am legally obligated to share my thoughts on the matter as though it were a discussion of nukes in Iran or how the Pope is doing in his personal battle with his predilection for scat porn.

Some claim it’s okay that she kept her disease private and we have no business knowing about it. Well, I don’t care that she kept it private so much as the fact that, obviously hypocritically, her show isn’t exactly diabetes-friendly.

It might have been good for her audience for her to admit it years ago and sprinkle some related alternative recipes etc. in the course of a season. “Hey, if you have a blood sugar problem, this works out to about 2500 bread exchanges and you might want to trim the brown sugar by a gallon or so.” Kind of a full disclosure like on financial programs.

It’s quite possible her cooking was part of her own susceptibility to the disease and thus only admitting her illness when scoring big pharma $$ is a bit obnoxious.

You see, she’s only giving ‘a percentage’ of her payoff to the American Diabetes Association. Just a percentage. If she gave 100% of the money to diabetes research, then I don’t think she’d be worthy of too much criticism since no one is technically forced to eat as she advocates and she wouldn’t be profiting off of the fact that she and so many others suffer from the sometimes preventable disease.

But she is profiting, perhaps adding to the problem, and I haven’t heard any real caution from her about the dangers of her culinary creations in the few instances I’ve watched the show.

You’re most welcome for me sharing my thoughts on this matter.

P.S. Too tired to post a meme of her riding stuff. Someone likely has put her atop a syringe. If not, get on that, Internetses.