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Buttery Deen churns up tubby toppers

Paula Deen the “Butter Queen” can’t give up her favorite fat-laden staple.

The diabetic chef, blasted in the past for her high-calorie cooking methods, is hawking a new line of custom butters at Walmart and Walgreens.

Available in five flavors — southern grillin’, lemon dill, European style, sweet citrus zest and garden herb — the “finishing butters” are supposed to be used in moderation, to add flavor to a meal, according to Deen’s marketing folks.

But Deen may not have received that memo, gushing: “My sweet citrus zest butter is hard to practice in moderation” and “it feels so fresh and clean.”

Deen’s new line also includes tortilla chips.