DL fave and YouTube creator Simply Sara is DEAD TO ME!!!

Gee. I wonder what the cause of death was.

Sara’s YouTube channel.

Aww, she was a sweet soul. RIP

She was a very sweet and gentle person. I had noticed she wasn’t looking in the best of health lately, unfortunately.

Fly high, cooking queen.

I think it's strange when women say their man, "Let's me be what I want to be". Did you ask permission?

Shimply Shara is Desheashed!

Oh, no!

I loved Sara.

She was a very genuine person. I really enjoyed her videos.

RIP, girl.

I'll always remember the first video of hers that I ever watched.

Sara's "OLD FASHIONED BOLOGNA SALAD."

And she used a Tupperware bologna shredder!

It was so fascinating to watch.

Very sad, RIP, Sara

Oh, this makes me quite sad.

Poor little dumpling.

I just know teh DataLounge gayz are swarming their way toward her unguarded husband even as we speak.

I'm sad...I watched a few of her videos and she was obviously a joke to some people, but she seemed very sweet and a good person.

RIP, Sarah.

Oh no! She was a much beloved morbidly obese DL icon.

Her last message included the hopeful info that "I’m keeping my gaterade down real good. Poor Jamie just helped me shower , I got tried of smelling vomit in my hair."

R15 Why was she puking? What was wrong with her? Did she start on Ozempic or something?

Maybe a bad batch of old-fashioned bologna salad?

I didn't know her, never heard of her and I was coming here to post something snarky. But reading how beloved she was made me see her as a person and not just a joke and I changed my mind. I feel bad for even thinking it. It just goes to show you what a an impact, a legacy a gentle kind spirit can have on people.

I found out about her on here years and years ago. I think the first post was expecting us all to make fun of her, but it didn't go that way. Most of us were struck by how sweet she seemed.

I have been a subscriber ever since. Her hustle was admirable....she tried to parlay her YouTube fame into a career selling Tupperware and Paparazzi Jewelry. She had moxie and charm.

IN the past few years, it was obvious something was wrong. Her house (trailer?) just kept getting messier and messier and more cluttered. Her mother-in-law would sort of just wander around in the background, and Sara's breathing got more and more labored. I still watched every video.

I still make this recipe I learned from her....

As long as God keeps his hands off of my Tammy Slaton

She had the AIDS.

She’s making bologna salad in heaven.

She had a hot ass but couldn’t live forever.

Awwww, RIP sweet lady.

Sad. She did seem quite sweet. More than likely, she simply died of complications from obesity. I think I watched a few clips and she was clearly breathing heavily.

Yet, Jae Bae, a no-good, grifting bitch, is still breathing.

Poor thing, she seemed very sweet! May she rest in peace.

RIP Sara. Even DL loved her.

Anyone find an obituary yet?

I'll donate to whatever cause they are collecting for.

Oh no! DL introduced me to her and I grew to love the little lady. Godspeed, Sarah!

So long, fat stuff!

You had to like her spunk.

Oh no! 😢

Sara, Sara. No time is a good time for goodbye 👋 😢

Though it’s not entirely unexpected, I just had to take a few minutes to cry about this. She’s been a constant little bit of sunshine in my week for so long.

Sara, as easy as some found to make fun of her, was a genuinely sweet soul who never sank to other’s level and kept her good spirit and positive attitude through it all. She had a talent and joy in sharing her knowledge with the world on YouTube and kept at it far longer than most

My heart goes out to Jamie and Betty and her cats. For all of her problems, the world needs more Saras. I will truly miss her and her videos. I agree with the other poster who said I hope they put up a GoFundMe. I would happily donate for all of the joy and laughter she’s given me over the years.

RIP Sara, I and so many others will miss you. I hope you’re someone right now with your beloved Mamaw making good food and laughing. 🥹🥲

R35- I wish the DL were as compassionate about the passing of that other SWEET soul -

Richard Simmons.

Sweet lady. If someone sees the obituary, please post. I'd like to contribute to whatever the family needs.

This makes me very sad. I'm proud to be the person who brought sweet Sara to Datalounge. It always gave me a sense of pride that so many of you took to her so warmly. I almost didn't do that first post because I thought it would be a bloodbath. But you stepped up DL. You stepped up.

Thank you R38, I found out about her from that post and I loved from the very beginning. You need to get your heart examined if you watched her videos and had a hateful reaction to sweet Sara.

R37, I messaged her Facebook page and told them to please set up a GoFundMe. There’s never been one I would want to contribute to more. I’ve gotten so much happiness from here over the years.

I can hear her now, “Byeeeee, everybodeee!”

[quote]R38 I'm proud to be the person who brought sweet Sara to Datalounge.

maybe you can speak at her funeral?

^Probably not, I'm getting too close to my own.

Hell, even kiwifarms loved her

She was too good for this world.

She had a hot stovetop, but she couldn’t live forever.

Flow gently on a big pink cotton candy cloud Miss Sara.

I only watched the one video of her making cafeteria rolls(?). She was a lovely person but the heavy breathing was too much for me. I just felt sorry for her.

She was a bumper car-sized Trumper who won't get to vote him in for a 3rd term.

What the hell is a bologna shredder? Too weak to tear that apart with your own hands?

[quote]R46 Flow gently on a big pink cotton candy cloud, Miss Sara.

With precious little Hello Kitties bobbing around on angel wings!

[quote] Too weak to tear that apart with your own hands?

Bologna is also sold in loaf form, not pre sliced.

Aw, man! This genuinely made me a little teary. I've always had soft-spot for Sara, since stumbling across a DL-thread one night in July 2018.

I was sitting in a hospital room with my 92 year-old mother who'd been admitted (through the ER) for treatment of a hiatal hernia. I was trying not to panic, but I had a sinking feeling that it was the beginning of The End (it was; she died 12 days later). My brother had just been in town to visit. I'd driven him to the airport a few hours before Mom became extremely ill (vomiting), went to the ER. (point being, he couldn't fly back until the following day).

I was feeling profoundly sad, and alone, when I came across the Sara-thread & went down a little Sara-rabbit hole. While most of her culinary efforts were "not my thing" (to put it mildly), there was something about HER that was so comforting & endearing. The accent, the cadence of her voice, and just her overall sweet, gentle demeanor:

"If don't lahke _____, don't put it in. You make it how YOU lahke."

She was a ray of sunshine, made me smile on a night on a bleak night when I really needed a distraction. (Mary! I know). R.I.P. Sara, you were a good soul. Condolences to her family.

Did she ever experience a delight of a man’s tongue other voluptuous pussy lips?

r53 Meh, you tried

I’ll be honest since it’s DL. These channels are disgusting. Let’s make the most caloric flavorless most processed crap possible. So glad I got rid of Facebook and no longer have to be subjected to it.

r55 "So glad I got rid of Facebook and no longer have to be subjected to it. "

Were you not able to just scroll by and not watch it? I have facebook and had not once seen this person.

R56 Crap cooking videos abound on that site, perhaps you were spared.

Sara has to die and Amberlynn Reid still waddles amongst the living. This is not a just world.

She was adorable!

You might like...

poor girl

She had a fat ass but she couldn’t live forever. Rip

!!! 😔

Obit:

(😞)

Aww, Rest in Reese's Pieces

Man, they got that obit up super fast.

RIP Sara.

Sara looked relatively healthy when she posted this video for "Taco Salad Stuffed Baked Potato" just over two weeks ago.

I mean, she didn't look very different from how she normally looked.

I'm very curious what was causing her to throw up so much, and how it contributed to her death.

It all seems to have happened so quickly.

Rest In Peace.

Did she seem to lose weight during the illness? Almost any chronic/terminal illness causes weight loss especially if constantly throwing up. Did she ever talk going to doctors and what they said? Or did she ignore it?

I have a friend who was very MD phobic and never had a doctors appointment in her 40s and 50s when I knew her. She was very obese and had a poor diet. I suspect she didn't want to hear the first thing the doctor would say and she was a controlling person. . She passed out at work one day and was transported to the hospital. Lab work and MRI found terminal cancer.

r71 And how's she doing now?

She could barely breathe in her videos.

[quote] Sara is survived by her husband, Jamie Potter; her “babies”, Emily (Blake) Fitchpatrick Robertson, Shawn (Nicolas and Casey) Fitchpatrick, and Kayden Robertson

Her “babies”?

r73 I used to love that song

I have my snack purse at half mast.

If she had some sort of intestinal blockage, that might explain the vomiting. People who are vomiting a lot can also aspirate vomit, and get a particularly horrible kind of pneumonia which is often fatal.

She may have had chemo. Chemo frequently kills overweight people.

Her obituary makes no mention of her father, but it does list a stepmother who is also her aunt. I'd love to go to the wake to get the details of that story, and also to check out the buffet.

I'm sensing an opportunity here.

R60's link only points up the comparative virtues of Sara's videos: their spareness and directness, while also having a lot of personality and warmth.

Covid.

with throwing up?

Purple People Eater Water Drink

Years ago, she had some sort of pneumonia and was hospitalized for many months.

A (very gay) YouTube friend she did a few collabs with gave a report on her during her treatment.

My memory may be faulty, but I seem to remember him saying she had to be suspended from the ceiling face down for a few weeks. I can't remember why.

I also remember it was reported on here with a few responses you would expect.

Am I making this up? Not sure.

It's astounding to me that an adult would make the beverage shown at R84. Then drink it. Then wonder why she was obese and unhealthy.

And considering her opening comments-- "I'm always doing my waters", "This is my lunchtime water"-- this was apparently an everyday thing, multiple times a day.

Family is saying it was sepsis due to a bowel blockage. Did she explode?

I imagine surgery to remove the obstruction wasn't possible due to her weight.

What a painful way to die, if that’s the case.

Hm, bowel blockage.

Wonder if she had tried to start Ozempic and had that complication. It is a common one for that medication, particularly because the digestive system slows down, and one continues to eat too much. Also, dollars to donuts(!) that she did little to no exercise, which could help alleviate intestinal blockage by speeding up digestion and preventing constipation.

Or it could be she just ate too much and became constipated for too long.

Those packets and syrups she was using are sugar free r86 and have little to no calories.

I always liked how she said Simply Sara really fast, as if it were one word.

“Garlic Salt and Garlic Powder TUH TAYSTE!”

My father developed an intestinal blockage at age 86. The culprit turned out to be scar-tissue in his abdomen from an emergency appendectomy (courtesy of the U.S. Army) when he was 18 years-old. Over time, one of the folds of his small intestine had sort of twisted around it, creating a pinch point. (My point being that they can be caused by a number of things, so be aware if you've ever had appendectomy).

Earlier, I should add.

Oh good Lord, she was from Fort Gay, WV. We're probably related.

r85 Is your friend Bradley Riley? Is so he is admin for her memorial page.

R91...Yes, she stipulated that everything she used to make that drink was sugar free. But as far as I'm concerned, sugar is just one of the harmful aspects of those products. Artificial flavors, chemicals, artificial colors, artificial sweeteners--several times a day! Forget sugar, nothing in that drink was healthful in the very least. All she did was turn that water toxic.

Still, my condolences to Sara's husband & her circle of family & friends. They seemed like a group of people who really loved one another, which made her & her videos very likeable & an amusing watch.

Too much bologna salad

God, I'm glad my parents never bought bologna for us.

However, we got liverwurst, so I'm not sure that was too much better...

[quote]Too much bologna salad

That's impossible.

Bologna is disgusting. It’s one of those things i was happy to give up forever when I went vegetarian

If you've ever seen bologna or hot dogs manufactured you'd never eat them again.

Desireé Mephistopheles Derecho-Hooter Admin · LOTS of people are asking what happened to Sara, so here is the official events as it happened last week and late Sunday evening / Monday morning:

What initially appeared to be a routine stomach virus turned out to be something far more serious. As many of you know, Sara was not one to seek medical attention lightly. However, she presented to the hospital on Thursday, April 3rd, due to worsening symptoms. Her condition prompted an immediate transfer to a higher-level facility for more advanced care.

Upon arrival, she was diagnosed with a bowel obstruction, and her blood pressure was critically low and difficult to stabilize. On April 4th, she was intubated and placed on a ventilator to support her breathing. The surgical team attempted to remove a section of necrotic (dead) bowel tissue, but despite being on five separate vasopressors (medications to raise blood pressure), her pressures remained dangerously low, averaging around 60/39.

Unfortunately, due to extreme hemodynamic instability during the operation, the team was forced to halt the procedure. A temporary abdominal vacuum-assisted closure (wound VAC) was placed, with plans to return to the operating room once she was stable enough for further intervention.

Despite all efforts, including maximum medical support, her condition continued to deteriorate. It was suspected that she had developed sepsis—a severe, body-wide infection—which further complicated her clinical picture. Overnight, one of the vasopressors reached its maximum allowable dose and could no longer be continued due to the risk of fluid overload and other complications. As feared, her blood pressure rapidly declined. Her nurse reported that although she was no longer sedated, she was unresponsive and not regaining consciousness, a concerning sign in the setting of critical illness.

This is so sad.

She had hot cakes but she couldn't last forever.

[Quote] Family is saying it was sepsis due to a bowel blockage. Did she explode?

Sepsis usually brings on heart attacks leading to death.

She convinced me to make homemade Chili - rather than relying on the packet of spices.

I thank her for that. It's much better using your own spices. And adding acutal chilis (which Sara did not do).

I am sorry, but is "Desireé Mephistopheles Derecho-Hooter" serious, R104?

"Death begins in the colon." ~ Sylvia Fine

R110 The sigmoid colon?

Good cross-reference, r111

I miss Phyllis

Just for the record, I did call the cause of death way back in r77. I'm somewhat sorry to be correct in this instance. I had an aunt die of an intestinal blockage, but she was in her 90s at the time. Yes, vomiting is one of the common symptoms. Many people don't die of the blockage itself, but the body needs to eliminate, so bad things start happening very quickly and only intensify with time.

If you don't like hamburger y'all can have turkey. If you don't like turkey you can add chicken if you don't like chicken you can have pork if you are vegetarian leave it vegetarian, every single recipe she talked about.

That time she was making tacos from a recipe passed down to her by her memaw who got it from the Mexxxxeeecan woman next door..

[quote] Just for the record, I did call the cause of death way back in R77

I misread that as back in 1977, r114.

Like, in the queue for Star Wars?

I love that she lived in Fort Gay.

I wonder if her mother died young as well.

Rest In Peace Sara, you seemed nice and you make me look slender by comparison.

I’m not sure how these social media sensations work but someone on here might know, would Sara have made much money from her cooking channel? I hope she at least managed to live a comfortable life with no financial worries.

R120 judging by her home I would say no.

Poor thing, she seemed super sweet

She absolutely had financial worries, r120. Her husband's illness was a burden. She tried selling cheap jewelry that would break or fall apart and force her to replace it for her customers, costing her money instead of making it. And while her husband lived in Fort Gay per her obit (I assume they meant he was FROM there), she lived in a trailer in Warfield, Kentucky, an isolated and poor mountainous settlement - so she had to drive 30 minutes each way to Louisa Kentucky or Fort Gay WV to get to a IGA that most of you would view as slightly above a convenience mart. Most of her neighbors likely shopped at gas stations nearby and lived on large-sized fountain drinks and packaged foods like bologna and chips. This brings about the kind of morbid obesity we saw in Sara and then the lack of medical access and knowledge leads to untreated illnesses like diabetes , etc. This entire generation of hill folk are dying in their 40s and 50s now, when there parents lived to be 60+ and their grandparents were 80+. It's one of the root causes of Trumpism and now, with Trump, it's only going to get worse as access to government $ goes away. Heartbreaking and maddening.

Here's the lowdown on her channel's earnings. Not a ton of money but some months her earnings would spike and I'm sure that extra income helped the family out.

Sarah ordered a lot of her kitchen supplies, including spices & dry goods, from Amazon.

Warfield is definitely a food desert. The Warfield IGA mentioned above is showing as "temporarily closed". It appears to be big enough that when it's in operation it should be a full line grocery store.

What illness does her husband have?

Sara posted this "Tortilla Pizza" video about a month ago, and she sounded really out of breath.

Poor thing.

She seemed to be a very nice person. Her passing makes me a little sad.

You know you're a genuinely likable and authentic person when both Datalounge AND Kiwifarms has a soft spot for you.

Was hoping her passing was painless/peaceful, but doesn't sound like it was. Awful.

R127 he was diabetic and had kidney issues. From what I can gather, he had experienced two health scares over the past several years, one around a year ago and one in 2022 (see related GoFundMe link).

They are/were both pretty physically unhealthy, but it seems like they still made an effort to live better despite their limited opportunities/resources.

Aw, I just watched the pizza video and it reminded me of just what a sweetheart she was; seemed genuinely positive and upbeat.

Poor lady.

The most amazing thing is how nice you crusty old bitches are being about her. I watched many of her videos as they seemed to comfort me on some level but I confess most of her food I found rather repulsive. She was the reason I watched,not the food.

her obit

She had a kind soul. She genuinely wanted to use her cooking knowledge to help people out. RIP.

Sara was not the only 300 pound American who ever lived, she prepared the type of meals Americans consume.

r135 maybe SOME Americans consume those meals. I never have, and nobody I know eats most of those things.

However, I'd totally make the tortilla pizza.

Food snobs may have scoffed at Sara, but if you watched her you could see she had a lot of knowledge on food preparation. She was probably an avid watcher of America's Test Kitchen. She wasn't pretending to show haute cuisine. She just wanted to show people who didn't like to cook, didn't have a ton of time for it, or had no experience, how to make dishes that tasted good and weren't hard to make.

Someone posted a nice tribute video to Sara on YouTube.

It seems to me you lived your life like a grease fire in the wind.

Let us remember.

Let me give Sara some more props- I checked out her Facebook and she continously posted Job Postings and local charitable type organizations (Where you could buy a bunch of clothing for $15.00) Things like that.. Tons of job postings. Her area is truly poor and employment is hard to come by. She always tried to help her community out. That impressed me. RIP- its always the kind ones.

On one of her job repostings (It was a state job) some guy asked Sarah if they would accept someone from Kentucky. She said something like "Go for it! Its worth a try!"

Just a gem.

She does seem like she was sweet

[quote]This is going to be a long post, but I believe she would want you all to know. What Sara thought was the stomach bug ended up being something much worse. If you know Sara, you know she does not like going to hospitals. Sara went to the hospital on Thursday, April 3rd they shipped her to a bigger hospital. She had a bowel blockage, and her blood pressure wouldn't stay up. They decided to vent her on April 4th and take her to surgery to remove the dead part of her intestine. They had her on 5 BP medicines to keep her blood pressure up. But even with the medicines, her BP was running 60/39.

During surgery, they had to stop because she was too unstable. So they put a womb vac on her. They were going to take her back to the OR to finish up surgery and figure out what else was wrong. But they couldn't get her stable enough. They believe she had sepsis as well. I went down there last night and they told me that they have her maxed out on blood pressure medication and once one of them runs out, her blood pressure will bottom. Well that's what had happened. The medication went out and her BP bottomed. They couldn't give her anymore because it was causing her to have fluid build up. I was also told by her nurse last night that she was not sedated at all, but she was not waking up. She ended up passing away around 1am this morning.

NO donations have been set up.

And please don't believe the other rumors that you hear. I've seen quite a few of them that's what made me make this post. Sara loved each and every one of you. She was the absolute best sister/aunt anyone could have ever asked for. How you saw her online is exactly how she was in person.

We appreciate all of your love and prayers that you have sent.

Her YouTube videos have been scrubbed :(

Goddammit why?!

R145 I wonder why? What would have been the harm in leaving them up?

It’s probably too painful for her husband.

Maybe she faked her death and wants to re-emerge as a skinny butterfly.

FLY BUTTERFLY, FLY!!!

We'll have to make do with Sinfully Sara then. Which is only a fraction of the YouTube videos she posted in her lifetime. My understanding is that Sinfully Sara were the very first videos she posted on YouTube and when her channel gained traction after the publication of her (in)famous Wanda's Macaroni Salad, she decided to reshoot them with a better gear (camera, computer, some editing software) and publish them on a new channel @SimplySara / @SimplySaraKitchen. Get'em videos before the hubby realizes these are still online.

Where will I turn for instructions the next time I make bologna salad?

Very sad; I think I first stumbled across the SS posts during COVID and while one expected serious snark, posters admired her warmth and her attempts to connect with people. For whatever personal troubles she had, you hope she knew the impact she had on people

[quote]Maybe she faked her death and wants to re-emerge as a skinny butterfly.

No offense intended, as I do realize that good things come in all sizes, but when I faked my own death I can guarantee you that my casket was petite.

This is sad. She seemed to be a very nice lady.

I found a more extended list of the videos she published on the WayBack Machine, but you only get the titles of the videos, the thumbnails for the first few ones and the links to the videos just don't work.

Oddly enough, it was not posted by Simply Sara but by another account going by the name Junk Lovers. Was this a stealth sister congregation of the DataLounge, Muriel? Really? Oh, you're terrible, Muriel.

🎵 JUSSSSSST BREATHE

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck... The link.