# Simply Sara (6805 Calorie macaroni salad woman) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549 "2010-07-22T02:31:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/1 "2010-07-22T02:31:14Z")
Remember that [6,805 Calorie macaroni salad recipe?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw99VsoMA) Someone posted on one of the many pages about this mess that he’d heard ‘Sara’ had died and asked for verification. So, did she die? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/2 "2010-07-22T03:24:37Z")
Were you looking up her macaroni salad recipe for tonight’s dinner? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/3 "2010-07-22T03:26:09Z")
Ha! Negative! Actually, I don’t know what prompted me to look it up. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/4 "2010-07-22T03:32:13Z")
Since there’s nothing in Google, Google News, or Google News Archives, I’d have to assume that it’s a baseless rumor. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/5 "2010-07-22T17:58:20Z")
What’s so bad about that macaroni salad, anyway? All macaroni salads are basically carbs coated in fats. Yeah, the total calorie count is pretty high, but I would hope that’s not all one serving. Divide that up into 20 servings or so, and it’d be fine. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/6 "2010-07-22T18:28:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What’s so bad about that macaroni salad, anyway? All macaroni salads are basically carbs coated in fats. Yeah, the total calorie count is pretty high, but I would hope that’s not all one serving. Divide that up into 20 servings or so, and it’d be fine. True, but I remember getting the impression it wasnt just some macaroni noodles with a light coating of “fat”, her version looked to be more like noodles swimming in soup of mayonaise, sugar, and some other amazingly bad stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/7 "2010-07-22T18:38:42Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What’s so bad about that macaroni salad, anyway? All macaroni salads are basically carbs coated in fats. Yeah, the total calorie count is pretty high, but I would hope that’s not all one serving. Divide that up into 20 servings or so, and it’d be fine. Umm, when your pasta salad recipe starts out with an entire can of sweetened condensed milk and a cup of sugar and a cup of vinegar, you have problems. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/8 "2010-07-22T18:42:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What’s so bad about that macaroni salad, anyway? All macaroni salads are basically carbs coated in fats. Yeah, the total calorie count is pretty high, but I would hope that’s not all one serving. Divide that up into 20 servings or so, and it’d be fine. It would also contain less than two ounces of macaroni, assuming it doubles in weight after cooking. Not much of a serving, but still nearly 350 calories. [QUOTE=billfish678] True, but I remember getting the impression it wasnt just some macaroni noodles with a light coating of “fat”, her version looked to be more like noodles swimming in soup of mayonaise, sugar, and some other amazingly bad stuff. [/QUOTE] A cup of sugar, a pint of mayo, and a can of sweetened condensed milk. The veggies and pasta account for 1710 of the 6805 calories. Not a very healthy ratio. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/9 "2010-07-22T19:33:13Z")
She’s got about 3 times as much sauce as you’d expect, if not more, in that bowl. The noodles are swimming in it. She says that it’s all going to soak in. Macaroni salad is junk food anyway, but sweetened condensed milk is like the most fattening substance on earth – 1300 calories in that little can. I can’t imagine who first thought to add it to macaroni salad (Micky Rooney salad if you’re my father-in-law). I propose that at any future dopefest, somebody bring this. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/10 "2010-07-22T20:05:58Z")
i just threw up a little bit in my mouth ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/11 "2010-07-22T20:31:34Z")
Just a little bit? ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/12 "2010-07-22T20:36:59Z")
Normally, crazy high calorie foods get me licking my lips wishing I had a hyper-metabolism but that honestly just looks gross. The day old donuts in the break room look more appetizing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/13 "2010-07-22T20:50:03Z")
It looks like my question is unanswerable, other than **needscoffee** ’s suggestion that it’s just a rumour the guy heard. As to the salad… I’ve made the occasional pasta salad, but not traditional macaroni salad. If I were to make macaroni salad, I’d use enough mayonnaise to coat the noodles and vegetables (and little cubes of cheddar cheese, because I like it when people put some cheddar cheese in their macaroni salad), but not more. I don’t want it swimming in it. And the sweetened condensed milk, sugar, and vinegar just sounds wrong. ‘Simply Sara’ has half a dozen other recipes, which I watched when the macaroni salad video was being talked about, and it seemed to me that she thought that ‘more ingredients is better’. This is not my style of cooking. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/14 "2010-07-22T21:05:31Z")
I think what makes that Sara video so OMG over the top is a combination of several things. The woman obviously has problems with healthy eating/portion control. She starts with macaroni salad, not exactly a health food to start with. Then, she manages to make something unhealthy ungodly unhealthy. Then, she makes a shitload of it. Most recipes for a side dish don’t make 20 servings. Note also that she doesnt even specify it makes many servings so its not hard to imagine her doolling out 1000 calorie servings rather than something like 300 calorie (but still unhealthy) servings. About the only way this video could be more OMG worthy is if she said it served 4 or claimed it was actually healthy. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/15 "2010-07-22T21:21:46Z")
What drags me in and slays me though is how sweet her voice is, and how sincere she is about thinking this recipe is really “different.” She honestly thinks of herself as a person with a talent for cooking which she wants to share with the world. When she adds the vinegar she gets this look like “and heeere’s the secret! Isn’t it clever?” It’s just heartbreaking. ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/16 "2010-07-22T21:31:37Z")
I like how winded she gets opening the bag of carrots at 3:20. But yeah, that’s a disturbing video. She almost looks like a white Gabourey Sidibe. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/17 "2010-07-22T21:38:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > And the sweetened condensed milk, sugar, and vinegar just sounds wrong. I’ll say. Doesn’t the vinegar curdle the milk? Or is that–gak–the idea? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/18 "2010-07-22T21:48:30Z")
> [@](#): > > When she adds the vinegar she gets this look like “and heeere’s the secret! Isn’t it clever?” It’s just heartbreaking. The real heartbreak there is that she’s using white vinegar. White vinegar is a cleaning agent or a chemistry reagent, not a food ingredient. And she could really use some herbs and spices beyond just salt and pepper, too. Where’s the parsley, or the dill? Or maybe some radishes? ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/19 "2010-07-22T21:53:59Z")
I don’t think the dressing ingredients are so bad. Mayonnaise, milk, vinegar, and sugar are the standard coleslaw dressing ingredients (which I just made, coincidentally). The problem is that she uses so much dressing, it’s practically soup! ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549/20 "2010-07-22T22:13:33Z")
I’m just having a bit of trouble reconciling the use of sweetened condensed milk in a savory dish, especially when a cup of sugar and a pint of mayo were already ingredients… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simply-sara-6805-calorie-macaroni-salad-woman/547549.md?page=2)