Paula Deen Hit in the Face with a Butt by Terri Evans

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Paula Deen Hit in the Face with a Butt

by Terri Evans | 3, Add your Comment | Nov 24, 2009

Keep a straight face now. This is tragic. Poor Paula Deen, while unloading Smithfield Hams for Hosea Feed the Hungry, was hit in the snout by the arse of a pig. It was captured on camera in a small slice. She quickly saved face and calmly muttered, “oooh, I didn’t know it was being thrown.” This was one of those monumental moments that few of us expect: when pigs fly. Clearly, anything can happen now. Snowballs may survive in hell.

The good news is that Paula did not fall flat on her face; but let’s face it, she didn’t exactly ham it up either, despite typically being one of the biggest (and best) hams on the face of the earth. This completely flies in the face of her reputation, which I hope will be enhanced by having shown her face with good deeds to help feed the hungry and by her good sportsmanship in the face of such adversity. She really put some bright pink lipstick on this pig that smacked her upside the head.

Deen has proven how tough she is and may yet face many more chances to prove it when someone next calls her pig-headed – or worse, a butt-head. I hope they have the courage to say it to her face, instead of being two-faced about it. Besides, she has already faced fears that many Americans are still awaiting – the swine flew, and she survived.

Before you pig out this Thanksgiving, let’s go whole hog and tell Paula what a hero she is for taking it on the chin on behalf of the hunger problem we have in America and around the world. Comment on her facebook fan site. She was just the pearl before this swine.

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Terri Evans

Terri Evans is 25+year marketing communications professional, a partner at LeslieEvansCreative and Bcauz marketing (cause-related). She has been a food columnist for Atlanta Intown and Atlanta Buckhead newspapers, and a contributing writer for Georgia Magazine, the Atlanta Business Chronicle and other publications. Evans was also a finalist in a Southern Living cooking competition. She is (and has long been) at work on a novel set in the South (of Georgia) and the South (of France). She's always cookin' up somethin'.

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This is the funniest account of this story I’ve seen. Thanks for the laugh and happy Thanksgiving. Plan to pig out indeed!
Terri Evans

Thanks. I really didn’t mean to be making fun of Paula so much as also applauding her attempt to do something really important with her fame. I think she handled it quite well. Likely she would have preferred pie in her face.
Melinda Ennis

For the many of us who have fallen on our butts more times than we’d like to recall, Paula is now our hero. Unlike that phoney, ex-con Martha, Paula pulled herself and her two sons up from the worst with nothing but her smarts, and working her own butt off. She certainly did not deserve one in the face (oh if it had only been Martha).
Very funny piece Terri, and thanks for reminding us to thank Paula!

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