# Wanda's Macaroni Salad - WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043 "2010-09-17T02:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/21 "2010-09-17T16:08:42Z")
My pasta salad is primarily a pound of pasta and a bottle of Italian dressing or some sort of vinaigrette. No mayo at all. I ususally make my own vinaigrette out of the water the canned mushrooms & black olives are packed in. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/22 "2010-09-17T16:14:00Z")
OMFG!! 6805 calories with 358 grams of fat?!?!? It didn’t say how much fiber was in there, but I’ll say not much. So if we plug that into the WeightWatchers formula, we come up with approximately 164 points. On WeightWatchers, I get 28 points a day. That bowl is 6 days worth of meals for me. :eek::eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/23 "2010-09-17T16:30:52Z")
She has a number of cooking videos, so I think that one was for real. I started feeling nauseated before she actually hit the 16 ounces of mayonnaise… but I watched to the bitter (sweet?) end. As for her counter being messy, I didn’t notice, but you should see mine when I’m cooking… ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/24 "2010-09-17T16:45:37Z")
Every artery in my body just slammed shut. My link, fortunately, is low-fat: [How to give a possum a pedicure.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRE2K3x-AY&feature=related) The look on the possum’s face kills me; it looks like it desperately wants to hold up a sign saying, “For the love of God, someone help me!” ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/25 "2010-09-17T19:03:29Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > > [@Sateryn76](#): > > > > … > > > > But would it have killed her to clean off the counters? > > Perhaps. Hee. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/26 "2010-09-17T19:13:09Z")
I was waiting for Wanda to explode. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/27 "2010-09-17T19:14:31Z")
[Bur-ur-ur-urp!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vGM2zY2DfA#t=7m26s) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/28 "2010-09-17T19:20:18Z")
[Here’s a video of a guy watching the video in the OP.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JrvZn_QAio&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/29 "2010-09-17T20:42:31Z")
I heard ‘she’s dead’, too, but I believe it is NOT true, just something one would assume, that an obese woman would drop dead from obesity disease…I never heard of sweetened condensed milk or more than a teaspoon of sugar in a pasta salad! Even the teeny pasta with pineapple and mandarin oranges is mixed with cool whip, not a whole can of SCM. Ick! I will bet you anything this is an old recipe from poor folks (from Appalachia, or the south), the type that eat (or used to eat) their food drenched in syrup. Like in To Kill A Mockingbird? ---
**Author:** ![Bloody\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bloody\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloody_L)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/30 "2010-09-17T20:52:04Z")
I don’t appreciate fat jokes at all but I just wanted to add that I saw her somewhere on facebook this morning. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/31 "2010-09-17T22:01:18Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Every artery in my body just slammed shut. > > My link, fortunately, is low-fat: [How to give a possum a pedicure.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRE2K3x-AY&feature=related) The look on the possum’s face kills me; it looks like it desperately wants to hold up a sign saying, “For the love of God, someone help me!” This needs its own thread. Did you look at her website at all? I just don’t know what to think. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/32 "2010-09-17T22:32:59Z")
I won’t be able to stir anything again without hearing a little voice say “get it corporated”. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/33 "2010-09-17T22:48:45Z")
> [@gwendee](#): > > > [@Marlitharn](#): > > > > Every artery in my body just slammed shut. > > > > My link, fortunately, is low-fat: [How to give a possum a pedicure.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRE2K3x-AY&feature=related) The look on the possum’s face kills me; it looks like it desperately wants to hold up a sign saying, “For the love of God, someone help me!” > > This needs its own thread. Did you look at her website at all? I just don’t know what to think. Is it a spoof? I honestly couldn’t tell! ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/34 "2010-09-17T22:49:26Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I won’t be able to stir anything again without hearing a little voice say “get it corporated”. Sigh. Now, me too. Hey, what if it’s delicious? Hahaa! What if somehow, that ungodly mix of fat and sugar and slop actually conspires to make something that tastes heavenly? We’ll never know unless we try. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/35 "2010-09-17T23:38:10Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > > [@gwendee](#): > > > > This needs its own thread. Did you look at her website at all? I just don’t know what to think. > > Is it a spoof? I honestly couldn’t tell! The fact that she doesn’t actually touch the opossum with the emery board led me to believe that it isn’t serious. And then I started exploring her website (I assume it’s hers) and couldn’t really put my finger on the intent. Odd, to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/36 "2010-09-18T00:40:06Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > > [@Manduck](#): > > > > I won’t be able to stir anything again without hearing a little voice say “get it corporated”. > > Sigh. Now, me too. > > Hey, what if it’s delicious? Hahaa! What if somehow, that ungodly mix of fat and sugar and slop actually conspires to make something that tastes heavenly? We’ll never know unless we try. Let us know how it works out - we’ll be waiting… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/37 "2010-09-18T03:22:51Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Let us know how it works out - we’ll be waiting… I wouldn’t eat that shit with _your_ gullet. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/38 "2010-09-18T04:04:54Z")
God, you know, I thought Paula Deen was bad. > [@needscoffee](#): > > > [@Guinastasia](#): > > > > I couldn’t hear what she was saying, as I don’t have sound, but GOOD GOD!!! Is there normally sugar in macaroni salad? I don’t know, I don’t eat it. > > You must hear it to get the full effect. Do you have earphones you can plug in? Nope, the sound on my computer is currently disabled. Long story, but it has to be run in Safe Mode for the time being. At any rate, I hate mayo with a bloody passion, so I think I’ll pass on the glop our good friend Sarah is pushing. (I prefer German potato salad, for example. It’s made with vinegar.) Someone should submit that video to [This is Why You’re Fat](http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/39 "2010-09-18T04:36:17Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Hey, what if it’s delicious? Hahaa! What if somehow, that ungodly mix of fat and sugar and slop actually conspires to make something that tastes heavenly? We’ll never know unless we try. You first. 😉 Seriously, I don’t think I could get past the “cup of vinegar + cup of sugar” without throwing 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:** [September 18, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandas-macaroni-salad-wtf/554043/40 "2010-09-18T06:01:05Z")
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