jmcquown wrote:
>
> Of course not! I'm simply saying the people I know who live here don't
> talk like Paula Deen and probably don't expect banana pudding to show up
> on the menu.

IMO, Paula Deen is a has a very fake tv personality. I've never heard
ANYONE from the South talk like her. Notice that she raised two sons
who occasionally appeared on her shows to help cook. Neither of them
talked like that and they most likely would have since they grew up
with MOM.

Her southern accent is just a fake *very enhanced* caricature of
southern talking, imo. People around here (myself included) often say
"y'all" but not near as often as she does. I suspect her accent is
just a gimmic to make her stand out.

I liked her shows but that phony southern accent always annoyed me.