Spent some time in Michigan and they said it was a “Midwest thing”.
Everything? No.
Anything? Yes.
I love this answer. Tip of the hat to you my friend.
It goes on salads, maybe dipping pizza and only on wings of they dont have blue cheese. Otherwise you’re just ruining whatever you’re eating.
Now a slice of cheese on apple pie…
I once dipped a chocolate chip cookie in ranch. This was a Mistake. To be fair, I was much younger. To be unfair, I was still much too old to excuse this.
I think we kinda did until everyone started shaming the fuck out of us, now it’s been while since I’ve seen anyone drown a thing in ranch.
Well, years ago Hidden Valley set up a hunt a la Willy Wonka style, but with only one golden ticket in one bottle of ranch, only sold to people living in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, the Dakotas, and participating stores in Nebraska and Missouri. The person who finds and comes forward with the golden ticket gets to learn the location of the Hidden Valley. We’re always in a scramble to increase our own chances of finding that ticket, so we have to use it on everything we can get our hands on. Some say it was all a trick by the company, but the true believers like myself know it’s out there waiting for it’s winner.
Ranch is good on Chicken Nuggets.
Especially the Taco Bell Avocado Ranch
It’s pretty good for dipping pizza and sweet potato fries in, but better with good house-made ranch and not hidden valley.
Whenever I make frozen pizzas I drizzle ranch and Valentina hot sauce on top and it’s so tasty.
I never liked ranch growing up and only now use it in very specific circumstances, so no. A lot of us think it’s gross af.
I started eating pizza dipped in ranch in elementary school which was not in the midwest.
I’ve found it works reasonably well on hot dogs, which should answer your question
In Nebraska we have a hyper-localized salad dressing called Dorothy Lynch, so we are forced to split our time 50/50 between Dorothy and Ranch. :)
That’s interesting! It looks like it’s similar to French dressing, I’ll definitely have to try it. Do you ever make your own?
Never tried to duplicate Dorothy Lynch, although we’ve made homemade Ranch and French dressing before. I like to put a little Dorothy on my (American) tacos or dip my grilled cheese in it also. 😋
I moved to the Midwest a few years ago and my friends keep hazing me with ranch. They mail gallons of ranch to my house, photoshop ranch my pictures, even give me ranch related clothing. All this because I said I didn’t like ranch on my pizza. The Midwest has a ranch obsession and it must be stopped!
Tell your friends to send it to my address instead.
It’s great for dipping stuff like buffalo wings and pickle chips, but I definitely don’t put it on everything. Not even pizza.
As a Buffalo resident, ranch on wings means they’re not Buffalo wings. Buffalo wings are spicy chicken wings with blue cheese dressing. If they’re not spicy, they’re not Buffalo wings. If they’re not chicken wings, they’re not Buffalo wings. Same for the dressing.
Some midwesterners are actually fans of bleu cheese. I’m afraid I cannot count myself among them.
Bleu cheese and ranch are both gross though. Wings need to be eaten straight up.
Michigander here. I see this all the time, but it is not my thing.
I tried it on pizza and thought it was interesting but the people I worked with couldn’t eat pizza without it.
It’s used wherever ketchup might be. Also pizza and I hear some weirdos put it on lettuce
Lettuce? Isn’t that what cows eat?
I was really good friends with a girl from by StL, and she was the only person I knew who put ranch on everything. She also only drank mountain dew.
But ranch has a place. Mostly, but more uncommonly, on salads. I’ll dip wings in it though.
But ranch on pizza is dumb people shit.
If I’m putting ranch on a pizza, its because it is a VERY bad pizza. That’s a desperation move.
Yeah, I can see that.
