I made Wanda’s Macaroni Salad (7,000 calories)!
This cooking video has been making the rounds lately. It shows a super-morbidly-obese woman making a very unhealthy macaroni salad.
If you haven’t seen the video I encourage you to watch it:
Here are the ingredients:
-1 can of sweetened condensed milk
-1 pint of real mayonaise
-1 cup of sugar
-1 cup of white vinegar
-1 lb of elbow pasta
-1 green pepper, 3 stalks of celery, 1 large onion, shredded carrots
The salad has 6805 calroies, 358 grams of fat (68 of which are saturated).
Perhaps it was morbid curiosity or just good old fashioned reckless disregard for my health, but I went out today to buy the ingredients to make the salad. I figured that something so monstrously unhealthy has to at least taste good.
It didn’t.
I followed the recipe exactly as she instructs in the video. I let it chill but the end result was an oversweet, gloopy waste of calories.
Sara, the fat lady in the video, says the sweetness is balanced out with the tang of vinegar. It’s not. It tastes overly sweet and creamy. Sort of like a dessert, but with chunks of celery, onions and macaroni. Sara says not to worry about all the dressing. She says it’ll be absorbed by the pasta and vegetables. That hasn’t happened yet. Several hours in the fridge and it’s still somewhat soupy.
Say no to Wanda’s Macaroni Salad!
That macaroni salad looks awful. Macaroni puke soup would be a better name.
Don’t call strangers fat, that’s rude.
Maybe she’s not a stranger…
Anyone who says that stuff tastes good when you follow her recipe is LYING.
That is an abomination for nastiness AND for wasting food.
Ooh! Did you try to make it?
Christine: I should have mentioned that I suck at meal preparation! And yes, perhaps I was too harsh on our friend Sara. I’m glad it worked out well for you guys though! 🙂
Totally made the macaroni salad. Totally gave me diabetes, but it actually didn’t taste awful when we made it. We followed the recipe, except we used apple cider vinegar instead of white vinegar. I think you judged poor Sara too harshly 🙂
Glad to hear it turned out for you! Did you post pics of it anywhere?
I decided to make this (silly me):
I made it with the following modifications:
-Splenda instead of sugar. And a lot less of it: 1/4 cup.
-I didn’t bother with condensed milk.
-Carrots+ celery + onion + pepper are now replaced with radish and sun dried tomatoes.
-I used a lot less mayo.
-I cut down just how much vinegar was in there because that was what made it so soupy. AND it would make it way too sour.
It didn’t turn out so soupy with this and was actually edible 🙂
I well, you changed the recipe completely so, no you didn’t make it at all. 😂
I agree!
Hey, I was just looking for a macaroni salad recipe because I have yet to find one that is edible. This post was worth the search. Thanks. Hope your roomies feelin’ better.
I am glad to see you are taking an interest in cooking! This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen! haa Thanks for that. I can send you a really good warm potato salad recipe if you are interested in that type of thing, it involves bacon.
Nathaniel, you are my hero for actually creating this monstrosity. Have you seen Precious yet? Bet you’d enjoy the fried chicken and pig’s feet scenes.
Housemate is currently in the Burnaby Hospital due to Wanda’s Macaroni Salad poisoning!!!!!!! 🙁
I hope Housemate is O.k.
I have eaten the salad Nathaniel. Please kindly call 911 for me.
Please discard it if you haven’t already.
Tamara! Run away from the macaroni salad! After about 14 hours in the fridge the goopiness is no more… but it stil tastes god-awful.
Nathaniel! That is revolting! I am both terrified and intrigued. But mostly terrified.
Pepper it with a ton of curry and Voila…. its a foreign delight.
I don’t know… should I?
Do you plan on unleashing this b east on hyour guests?
I used real mayonaise and if it marinates overnight that might do something about the gloopiness… but what about the taste?
Give it over bight in the fridge to marinate.
Didyou use real mayonaise or miracle whip?
something like that can make a massive difference.
I bet it will come together with a night of marination.