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Paula Chats with her Friend Nita “Jelly Roll” Jones - Meet Jelly Roll, Paula's longtime friend & employee at The Lady & Sons restaurant. She's a wonderful cook, and makes delicious biscuits and hoe cakes!
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- Y'all, I have got
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a special guest
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for y'all to meet today.
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And those that have been coming
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to the Lady & Sons for 25 years,
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you will recognize her
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because she was like a fixture at the Lady & Sons
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for I don't know how many years.
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How many years?
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This is- - Almost 40 years.
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- Oh, no it ain't been 40- - Yes, it is.
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- No it hadn't, baby. - Okay.
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- We didn't open until 1996. - Okay.
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- Downtown. - Okay.
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- So it's almost 2026...
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I can't- - It's been
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longer than that. - Math.
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Math was- (laughs)
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- It's been longer than that
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because we was down on the other end almost.
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- That's right.
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We opened up there January the 8th, 1996.
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- That's right.
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- And we have been at the big building
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like 21 or 22 years now so... - Yeah.
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- And we were there five,
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so it's been 27 years I think. - Okay.
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- I don't know.
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But then we had the bag lady before that.
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This is Ineata Jones, but everybody knows her as Jelly Roll.
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And people that come in that restaurant,
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they wanna see Jelly Roll. (Ineata laughs)
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And...
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She has become famous, you know,
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with the people that come into the restaurant.
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And, you know,
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I've got my blood family,
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but then I have
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my working family
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and she and I, that really makes us sisters,
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- Yeah. (chuckles) - Because, you know,
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we've been through a lot together over the years.
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We've worked so hard together. - Yes.
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And...
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- And I love it.
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- I know it. (Ineata chuckles)
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I do too, Neata.
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I do too. - I do.
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- I'm trying to figure out how old she is.
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I ask her last night.
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So anyway, Neata spent a night with me last night
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'cause I've been telling her that we come get her
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and let her spend the night with us.
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So we did last night.
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And you got to celebrate Eddie's birthday.
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And so we took Aunt Peggy some pizza
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over to
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the assisted living house.
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So she got to visit with Aunt Peggy.
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And then she got to visit
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with the wild buck grandchildren.
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(both laugh)
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- Yes, sir.
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- And honey, there was only four grandchildren
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here last night. - Oh God.
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- Instead of 11.
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So you ain't seen nothing, honey.
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- Oh Jesus.
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- Until all 11 show up. (laughs)
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You'd wanna run and hide.
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But so
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after we took Aunt Peggy her pizza,
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I asked Neata, I said, "How old are you?"
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She said, "97."
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I said, "Well, you are a liar!" (laughs)
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You ain't no 97.
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And then she said "67."
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I said, "You ain't 67 either."
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So I'm trying to get the truth out of her.
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- I did.
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- How old are you?
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- 70.
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- You're older than 70.
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- Me and you about the same age.
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- I'm 78. - That's right.
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- And are you older than me?
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- I'm 79.
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- Finally the truth, y'all.
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(Ineata laughing) It took her going on camera
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to admit how old she was.
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I knew she was older than me.
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But you know what?
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The funniest thing is I'm waiting on her.
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I said, "What's wrong with this picture?"
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(both laugh)
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Between you and Aunt Peggy.
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And Michael. - Yeah. (chuckles)
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- So, tell everybody
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what you did at the restaurant.
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- When I first got there
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I had a friend that worked there.
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She the one got me to work with you.
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So I started working there and I got where
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I just didn't wanna stay home then
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'cause I got used to them, you know, being there.
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- And we had such a good time.
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Although we worked very hard.
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- Yes we did. - You know,
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and that kind of work is so hard, Neata.
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- It is. - So stressful.
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- Still is.
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- I remember one day we had 13 catering jobs.
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That had to be delivered.
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Plus a packed dining room. - That's right.
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- And if you think that ain't stressful,
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Trying to figure out how you're gonna get
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all those jobs done. - Yes.
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But we got it done though.
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- We got it done.
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We got it done. - Yes, Lord.
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We got it done.
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- We got it done.
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(Ineata chuckles)
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And when we moved down to the big building,
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we had stations on each floor,
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the first and the third floor.
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And we put in a griddle and a oven
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and started doing the biscuits and the hoe cakes
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where folks could come up and see .
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Watch what you were doin'.
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And so she was a hoe lady.
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And she still is today. - It still is today.
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And I mean, they can answer a phone and be,
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"You ain't got none of them hoe cakes?"
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(Paula chuckles) I say, "Yes, I do.
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And "I'll be out in a minute."
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and I'd go out with a big plate full and they,
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"Oh, I want two. (Paula laughs)
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I want one."
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And they go right on, boy.
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Each and every day. - Those hoe cakes,
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they put us on the map.
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- Yes, they did.
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Yes they did. - And
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when I was off working,
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I came home and they had decided
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to take out
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the baking section
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because they said it was gotten dangerous
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for it being slick.
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So I don't know.
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That was a sad day, that- - Yeah, I wish
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that we were there, though.
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- I wish they had said something about it.
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But they did it without consulting me.
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But we found a way to
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get some hoe cakes to 'em. - Yeah, we found a way.
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- And she is the best hoe in town!
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- That's the truth.
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- You tried to teach people
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how to make them hoe cakes.
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- But they can't.
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They cannot do it.
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"I don't know how to make 'em."
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I said, "If you stand here
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and look at me and see what I'm doing,
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- You'll learn. - That's right.
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- They say, "Okay, yeah."
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I say, "Mm-hm, let's forget it."
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(Paula laughs) "Just forget it.
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I'll do it myself." - I know it.
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- And I've been doing it every day.
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- I had always said if I come back after life,
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I wanna come back as a octopus.
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- A what?
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- A octopus!
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So I'd have eight arms and I could do it all myself.
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And that's what I'd like to see you come back in.
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(both laugh)
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You could have eight stations of cakes goin'.
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- You ain't-
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Boy, they be talkin' 'bout, "You makin' some?"
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I say, "Yeah, it'll be out in a minute."
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And I mean, I'd have a big plate full.
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- I know it, I saw you. - Goodness.
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- Was it yesterday I was down there?
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No, day before yesterday. - Day before yesterday.
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- Yeah.
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And you had a plate that high.
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- Yes sir, yes. (Paula laughs)
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Then I said, "Well, I better get a pan."
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I got one of them pans and filled it up real high.
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And boy, don't they be some-
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"I want two!
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I want that dark one right there.
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- "That dark one." (laughs)
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- Yeah. (both laugh)
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'Cause it be crispy and good, boy!
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I go, "Okay."
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- God has really blessed us.
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- Yeah. - Over the years.
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We've had so many good people put
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their feet under our table. - A lot.
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Yes.
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I mean, it's a lot of people.
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They be asking, "You going to work tomorrow?"
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I say, "Yeah, I'm going."
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"Okay, I'm coming." (both laugh)
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"I'm gonna eat some of them hoe cakes."
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(both laugh)
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- They are so good.
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Nobody can cook them hoe cakes like Neata.
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- No, and I love it.
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- I know you do.
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You can look at you and tell
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that you love it. - (chuckles) Jamie said,
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"Oh, you ain't gonna be here tomorrow, aint it?"
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I said, "No, I'm gonna be with your mama."
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Come on, man.
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- So you told Jamie you was coming to spend the night?
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- Uh-huh. (Paula laughs)
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You talking about?
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I look at- - Let me
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tell you another funny story.
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When she had a knee replacement,
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she came up to me, she said, "Paula,
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I wanna recuperate at your house."
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And I said, "Okay."
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I was the bossiest heifer.
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(Ineata laughs)
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And Aunt Peggy and Susan-
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I had to go out of town, I was working.
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And so Aunt Peggy and Susan came to take care of you
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until I could get my work done and come back home.
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And when I got back home,
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five minutes, I was ready to go back to work.
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(both laugh)
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'Cause she was bossing me all over the place.
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- And then Paula said, "Okay, where your sister at?"
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I said, "Home, I guess."
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She said, "Why you can't get her
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to come stay with you while we gone?"
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I say, "All I gotta do is call her
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and let y'all come get up a mile."
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And she did.
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Oh Lord, she loved it. (Paula laughing)
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She came here and then she got bossy.
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She gon' cook! (Paula laughs)
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- Wonder where she learned that from.
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(both laugh)
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- And then I'm in the bed asleep
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and she in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
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I said, "Girl."
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Talkin' 'bout, "Leave me alone.
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Just leave me alone.
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Ain't nobody ask you nothing."
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And then all of us start eating breakfast.
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(both laugh)
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- Yeah, in fact,
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we are gonna do a recipe that Neata
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taught us how to make at the restaurant.
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And it's so easy and so good.
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So I so enjoyed you coming and spending the night with me.
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- Me too (chuckles).
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You are the kind of company
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that is good to have.
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You don't have to be entertained.
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- Nope. (chuckles)
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- Just sit her in front of the TV.
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(both laugh)
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- Yeah, 'cause I like to sit in front of the TV.
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- I do too.
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Guilty. (Ineata laughing)
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Guilty, our TV never is ever turned off.
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- Nope. - So...
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You know what I always say, Neata?
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To our friends out there?
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"We send y'all love and best dishes."
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Ain't that what we do? - Yes.
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All the love and best dishes, you're right.
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- Yes.
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Yes. - Love all of them.
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Everybody in the building.
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- I know it.
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It's our family.
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It's our work family. - Especially my boy Jamie.
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- I know it, that Jamie.
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- He's a sweet boy.
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- Yes to them. - He's a sweet boy, both of
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them are, Jamie and Bobby. - Yes to them, yep.
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- (blows kiss) So love and best dishes, y'all.
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If you're here and coming to the Lady & Sons,
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see if Neata's around
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cooking some hoe cakes somewhere.
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- 'Cause I will be there.
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- I know Jamie's mad with me
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because she couldn't come to work today
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'cause she's here with me. (both laugh)
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- That's all right, he's young.
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He'll get over it. - He'll get over it.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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