Food Network star, Paula Deen, was recently doing her best to help feed those less fortunate this holiday season and what did she get as thanks for her efforts? A ham to the head.

It was while the cooking show host was in Atlanta as to participate with the Hosea Feed the Hungry & Homeless organization’s efforts to gather donations from Smithfield that someone tossed a giant ham without giving Deen a heads up.

The 62-year-old Savannah-based chef told a local television station, “[The ham] hit me full long in the face and ’bout knocked me cuckoo, but I’m fine.” Now, I know Paula is definitely one for hamming it up for the cameras, but I doubt this is what she had in mind.