Paula Deen has launched her very own line of butter. Called “finishing butters,” Deen’s line of products are now on sale at Wal-Mart.
The celebrity chef, known for making indulgent Southern dishes and often criticized for her excessive use of fattening ingredients , has developed these finishing butters along with chocolates and “all-natural tortilla chips made with fresh vegetables” for a new product line.
By “vegetables,” notes The Huffington Post , Deen means corn and jalapeños . Close enough.
Anyway, the new butters come in five flavors : Southern Grilling Butter, Lemon Dill Butter, European Style Butter, Sweet Citrus Zest Butter, and Garden Herb Butter.
You can currently get them at your local Wal-Mart while the tortilla chips will show up in Walgreens stores within a few weeks.
The aforementioned chocolates are reserved for QVC and will drop later this year. They will be available in both “premium” and sugar-free varieties.
In the press release for the new products, it explains that they are called “finishing” butters because they “let cooks bring a wonderful fresh butter taste to various dishes while just adding butter to the end of the cooking process” with the promise of indulgence we’ve come to expect from Deen.
“My Sweet Citrus Zest butter is hard to practice in moderation,” she writes.
The new products might raise a few eyebrows, especially in light of Deen’s Type 2 diabetes diagnosis early last year (and her rep deal with the diabetes drug Victoza). Since then, Deen has been very vocal about her condition and the changes she has made to her diet, but folks like Anthony Bourdain still regard her as “the worst, most dangerous person to America.”
What do you think of Paula Deen? Are you excited to try her finishing butters?
