Am I the only person in the world that can't stand ranch dressing?

[catbyte]

Perhaps I watch too much YouTube, but I've noticed that so many people eat ranch on everything--they dip their fries in it, onion rings, and the absolutely most disgusting, dip a slice and/or slather it all over their pizza. Why?!? I have to stop watching it.

😱 🤢 🤮

I think I need to reevaluate my entertainment choices.

[wcmagumba]

1. There's two of us...nt

[Delmette2.0]

8. Make that three!

My sister & daughter in law love the stuff. They will not even taste anything else.

[July]

38. Four!

And I like almost everything.

[Blue Owl]

42. Five!

And mayonnaise too -- I hate that shit!

[rurallib]

50. yes and yes!

[Demovictory9]

2. I wouldnt dip pizza in it but its better than that orange french dressing

I grew up with..

[Hoyt]

3. Another here. In fact, I avoid just about anything similar to mayonnaise. Yuk.

[yellowdogintexas]

64. ranch dressing if made properly with buttermilk is quite tasty and not like mayo at all

However I would sooner be shot than put it on a damn pizza.

It's not bad for a veggie dip.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. There are always music video's

And yes, you're the ONE.

[RockRaven]

5. Strong dislike here. Avoid at all costs. Fasting would be preferable.

[dameatball]

6. And thanks to you: Acme Salad Dressings, Inc. to announce first layoffs in 60 years.

[randr]

7. Tried it once

Many years ago

[LakeArenal]

9. Tastes bitter to me.

[Goonch]

10. ;-{)

[liberaltrucker]

19. Monica?

[MFM008]

11. Yes

Love buttermilk ranch dressing.

[leftieNanner]

23. Before it was available in bottles

It was just a packet of seasonings. Hidden Valley Ranch. Used to mix together with mayo and buttermilk and keep it in a mayo jar in the fridge. It was quite delicious!

Now, I'm more of a balsamic vinaigrette kinda girl.

[MFM008]

27. your right

i had forgotten. My mom used to use the oil and vinegar shaky thing glass bottle.

[Kali]

62. and before that it was just homemade from buttermilk, mayo

salt, pepper, garlic, onion, parsley, dill

[blueinredohio]

31. Me too.

I put that .... on everything.

[Shermann]

12. Its ingredients are very unoffensive

There isn't anything there to "hate" really. It's a moderate dressing for the masses.

Personally I prefer bleu cheese as a dip. Now bleu cheese is fit to argue about!

[Polly Hennessey]

26. I like blue cheese and Roquefort.

😋 yummy.

[yellowdogintexas]

65. blue cheese vinegarette is the BEST!!! nt

[Iggo]

32. Bleu Cheese is for the real.

[happybird]

36. I'll argue!

My thoughts on blue cheese are best summed up as Eeeeeewwwwwwww!
Unless we are talking hot Buffalo wings.

[Staph]

39. I waited tables for a year in college.

We made our own salad dressings, including bleu cheese. I had to crumble the block of cheese by hand into the other ingredients - the stink stayed on my hands for days! Scented soaps, lemon juice, nothing took the smell away except time.

I have despised bleu cheese dressing ever since.

[catbyte]

41. I love bleu cheese & bleu cheese/roquefort dressing. I don't know what it is about ranch.

It feels greasy in my mouth and the buttermilk is too pronounced or something. Too heavy with not enough return on flavor, I guess.

[Ocelot II]

13. I don't mind it on some salads but french fries and pizza? Ick.

It's not as bad as that awful sweet, red-orange-ish French dressing, though.

[catbyte]

43. The only thing I like is Russian dressing (which is essentially French dressing with celery seeds)

on an avocado/grapefruit/bibb lettuce salad. It's probably nostalgia because my Nana used to make it sometimes when we'd go over to their house for dinner on Saturday nights when I was a kid. She'd place strips of ripe avocado and sections of pink grapefruit (minus the membrane) on a bed of bibb lettuce then drizzle a little Russian dressing on it. It was the best. A friend sent some Harry & David deluxe avocados to me as a gift and I made that salad with one of them. It was still awesome. That smooth avocado and tart grapefruit combined with that buttery bibb lettuce and slightly sweet-yet-tangy dressing is a winning combination.

[Big Blue Marble]

14. I love homemade ranch dressing

on a salad period. I have never understood it being used for pizzas, wings, fries, etc,

Homemade with sour cream or buttermilk and garlic is yummy. Do not judge all ranch
dressing the same, unless you do not like garlic.

[catbyte]

44. I'm not a big garlic fan. I use fresh garlic but never as much as the recipe calls for in

Asian and Italian dishes, but I never use garlic powder--yuck.

[eppur_se_muova]

55. Makes sense on Buffalo wings -- dairy fat helps absorb the capsaicin

(which is hydrophobic, i.e. oil/fat-soluble) so the heat doesn't linger too long afterwards. Indian cooks know to serve yogurt with their hot & spicy dishes for the same reason. Guacamole is also high in fat, so makes a good follow-up to overly spicy food.

[Kali]

63. yep, good for salads

easy to make

[live love laugh]

15. Yes

[happybird]

16. I think it's like ketchup to some?

As in, they don’t really like the taste of what they are eating so they drown it in ranch.
Like how little kids put ketchup on everything, or how an adult who eats well done steak with ketchup doesn’t actually like the taste of steak.

I like ranch on a salad when having pizza and salad, and on bacon cheddar fries.

[Iggo]

21. I think you're right.

[catbyte]

45. I don't mind "fry sauce" which is essentially mayonnaise & catsup or mayo, catsup & mustard,

but I'd rather have straight catsup on my fries.

[lastlib]

17. No.

I would rather eat axle grease than that stuff.

[Cracklin Charlie]

18. No, it's gross.

[Iggo]

20. It's weird.

I hate ranch dressing.
I hate onion rings.
But I like them together.

Like I said, it’s weird.

[Lunabell]

22. I only hate the bottled kind. Too much mayo.

Homemade is the bomb!!!! I use fresh herbs, sour cream, lemon juice and some mayo. Totally different and delish.

The package of Hidden valley is ok if you use less mayo, sour cream instead of buttermilk. A little fresh lemon juice doesn't hurt.

[Polly Hennessey]

24. No. Do not like it.

My tongue recoils at the taste. Everyone else seems to like it. I wonder what I am missing.

[whistler162]

25. Can't stand raunch dressing

[Iliyah]

28. My father-in-law hates it toooooooooooooooooo . ...

I love it.

[beemerphill]

29. Me Too

Someone else can have my share of Ranch. Make mine a mixture of Blue Cheese and Russian. About half and half.

[FSogol]

30. Count me in. I think it is awful. N/t

[Solly Mack]

33. I make a tasty homemade version. It's fat free to boot.

I only like it on salads though and then only on certain kinds of salads.

Different lettuces/salad ingredients need different dressings to bring out about the best flavors of the whole.

[MicaelS]

34. I love Ranch and Thousand Island.

I will not eat any other dressing, especially oil based ones. I will not eat salad that has oil based applied.

[redstateblues]

35. Pass

[rsdsharp]

37. Can't stand the stuff. There was a period where Katie Lee

had a deal with Hidden Valley and she put it in everything she did on The Kitchen. Between that and Sunny Anderson I wanted to throw a brick through the TV.

[Talitha]

40. It's really good as a dip for fresh veggies.

[wnylib]

58. Yes it is. I never use ranch dressing

on salads. I prefer olive oil vinaigrette for that. But I do like ranch for veggie dipping. Also like to put ranch on ham sandwiches.

[MenloParque]

46. Ranch is foul

I remember wrenching in disgust back in the early 80’s when ranch on pizza was all the rage in California. Thankfully that trend is dead, although I did see some rednecks in Arizona indulging in ranch with a side of pizza a couple years ago. It’s right up there on the foul meter with ketchup on steak and hotdogs.

[catbyte]

47. It's made a revolting comeback. There's some mukbanger on YouTube that slathers ranch on

everything and now a lot of YouTubers are copying him. It's gut-wrenching.

[LearnedHand]

52. Mukbanger?

I have no idea what that is but I love it!

[catbyte]

53. Oh, geez, sorry. Here's what a mukbanger is:

Mukbang

Online audiovisual broadcast in which a host eats large amounts of foods while interacting with their audience

A mukbang is an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host consumes large quantities of food while interacting with the audience. It became popular in South Korea in 2010, and since then has become a huge worldwide trend. Varieties of foods, ranging from pizza to noodles, are consumed in front of a camera. A mukbang is usually prerecorded or streamed live through a webcast on streaming platforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukbang

I wish YouTube would police them more because there are a few super morbidly obese people who are committing slow suicide and have monetized their eating disorder/lack of willpower, whichever it is. It really is like watching a guy shoot up heroin on camera or drinking him/herself to death. They have quit their jobs in the real world to do nothing but eat on camera. For this, they can make thousands of dollars a month through ad revenues and feeders* paying them to eat. It's really disturbing and dark.

*Feederism: Feederism is an umbrella term for different kinds of sexual attraction. The fetish includes fat fetishes, feeding, weight gain, bloating, inflating and padding.

[LearnedHand]

60. Oh thanks!

I could have looked it up, but I just assumed it was a regional term. But now I’m celebrating the metaphor EVEN MORE.

[Elessar Zappa]

48. I like it on some stuff.

I dip fries and chicken strips in it. Not pizza though.

[tanyev]

49. I would rather have ranch than a dressing that is sweet.

Sometimes ranch is the only non-sweet option available. But I do agree it doesn’t need to be slathered on absolutely everything.

[rurallib]

51. How about on popcorn in place of butter?

We used to tutor some latino boys. Popped them some popcorn for a snack one day. Asked them if they wanted a little butter. They both asked if we had any Ranch dressing.

And they did pour it on fresh popcorn and ate it. I couldn't watch.

[tanyev]

54. Oh, wow, I read your title and thought it was the powdered mix sprinkled on popcorn--

that might not be bad. But then I read the rest and realized you were talking about pouring actual dressing on popcorn. Yikes.

[Jeebo]

56. Is it like mayonnaise?

I don't think I've ever had ranch dressing, but I love mayonnaise. What I can't stand is ketchup. Yuck. I love tomatoes, but I hate ketchup. In Belgium they put mayonnaise on French fries instead of ketchup. When I was a kid we used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches all the time. Slather a gob of mayonnaise between two slices of bread and chow down. Now I have to have more than just mayonnaise on that sandwich, at least mayonnaise and mustard and some kind of sliced meat and also hopefully some sliced cheese, but if you put ketchup on it I absolutely WILL NOT eat it. On salads I like oil and vinegar dressing, or some kind of vinaigrette dressing. Thousand island is okay, too.

-- Ron

[betsuni]

57. I make my own with drained yogurt.

Cheaper, better.

M.F.K. Fisher on having to write about dips:

"Finally I found myself outlining a publishable credo of protest, based on the cold facts that I had never made a dip in my life, had never in my life tasted a dip ... and was sure that never would I either make or taste a dip. I felt very firm and relieved about it, and turned my back strongly upon several new cookbooks with long chapters devoted to dips of varying extravagance. ... Dips are messy. The idea of all kinds of wafers and chips and vegetables and plastic skewers dabbling in a common bowl, and often breaking off in it, was repugnant. Down, down to hell itself, I said, with dips."

Double dipping is always a problem.

[Kaleva]

59. I've been watching YouTube videos on making emergency toilets.

haven't seen a single one about Ranch dressing

[madamesilverspurs]

61. I don't care for it.

But it didn't like me, first.


.

[Autonomous 2021]

66. Money!

I think they do all those strange things just because of money! The more weird video is, the more viewers and more money!

[lillypaddle]

67. I agree

ranch dressing sucks..

[Marthe48]

68. I like it on chef salad

I think it tastes better with the eggs and avocado.

I use it as a base and mix blue cheese chucks in if I have jalapeno chicken. I like creamy Italian and zesty Italian better.

Maybe you could have You Tube open on 2 tabs, mute the ads on one and watch something on the other, back and forth

[beaglelover]

69. No, not a huge fan of ranch dressing. Never my go to dressing.

[smirkymonkey]

70. No, I can't stand it.

I pretty much can't stand any kind of bottled dressing, but that is my least favorite. And it really annoys me when people put it on things that it doesn't belong on such as fries, wings, and pizza, etc.