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lemmy.zip

Which country will one of these people end up getting murdered? My money’s on France. Someone is going to douse their steak au poivre in bacon flavored ranch, and the reaction won’t be pretty.

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Codpiecereply
feddit.uk

My money is on Italy the moment they try using it as pasta sauce.

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If they can even survive past asking why their pizza doesn’t have any cheese on it.

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Depends on which country they land first. If it's Spain and the throw that shit on a paella...

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I mean as long as it's a classic buttermilk dressing aka actual ranch. Then it's fine. Maybe not on steak au poivre. But like fuck man.

Buttermilk goes good with basically everything. It's just kinda an inoffensive dressing.

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Honestly, if he isn't picked they are just losing money on this.

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lemmy.world

In Europe they don't know what ranch is so Cool Ranch Doritos are called Cool American Doritos...

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lemmy.ml

TIL I don't like ranch.

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To be fair, ranch and cool ranch are somewhat different

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It tastes literally nothing like ranch. Even the American version actually called cool ranch. Tastes literally nothing like ranch.

Ranch is just a buttermilk dressing. It's fine, it's hard to find people that genuinely don't like buttermilk dressing.

You may not like hidden valleys version since they add a bit more to it. But normal ass ranch is like absurdly inoffensive as a taste.

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And with what Americans have been up to recently, they're going to have to rename it again.

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It's just buttermilk... Buttermilk is absurdly popular in the EU it literally out sales the US and has for a while like decades.

It's just not called ranch in the EU by basically any company I can find that makes a buttermilk dressing.

The term ranch is most US based and really just used by hidden valley and their competitors to opt the name brand recognition.

Everyone else just calls it buttermilk dressing.

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No no, this makes sense. The world's opinion of us is already as low as it can possibly get, this can only help. Not likely but how much worse could it get?

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lemmy.world

Listen, I love ranch, but you're gonna want to convince the Scots and let them try to convince everyone else. Ranch is amazing on fried food, and by fuck does Scotland fry food.

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sh.itjust.works

I've done that. You just tell them it's buttermilk and they f*** with it hard. You just tell him it's ranch after the fact and they get really pissed at you.

But they won't stop eating it. I've done it twice.

Seriously, people keep thinking that all buttermilk dressing just tastes like hidden valley ranch. When really it's just hidden valley ranch is the disgusting outlier why everyone else's ranch is just normal buttermilk dressing and it's delicious.

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Honestly I think hidden valley is fine. It's middle of the road, but I get that it may put off non Americans. The thing with creamy dressings like ranch, Bleu cheese, and Ceasar is that the good shit is really good, the middle of the road is going to have some who hate it even though they love the good shit, but others will still like it even though they agree that the better stuff is better, and a lot of people who'd like even the middle of the road stuff will dislike the lower end versions (like store brand).

I don't even like buttermilk dressing on salad, but anything fried is so much better dipped in it. There's a reason it's always offered alongside yankeeschnitzel here as well as often alongside fries. And yeah it's comparable to an equivalent quality mayonnaise based sauce for fries.

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lemmy.world

Ngl, I would love a trip to Europe. I'm not the biggest fan of ranch but I'd put ranch on every damn thing they want. Europeans would be side eyeing me like mad. Wouldn't care. Got free trip.

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But do you need extra dressing when the whole kitchen staff have already hocked up their chunkiest loogies to hold up their end of the cultural exchange?

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If they're anything like me, I think the europeans just wouldn't know wtf you're dousing your meal with

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EU: USA wtf are you doing? THE WORLD IS ON FIRE!!!!! STOP! STOP!!!!! STOP!!!!!! Nobody likes that!! Get all your stuff away from everywhere!!

USA: Oh my bad, how about we come on over there and put our stuff on your food? That’ll make everyone happy right?

EU: FFFFFFF!!!!!!!

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lemmy.zip

We make ranch at home to occasionally dip things in, and it’s enjoyable. However, the slimy, sour shit that comes out of a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch is diagusting.

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lemmy.today

Homemade ranch really is on another level! Cheaper than the bottled stuff too. $1.50 for a small thing of sour cream and another $1 for a package of seasoning. I used to just use whatever was in my spice cabinet, but the package is so convenient if you just want it easy.

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I keep a container of it on-hand so I can make smaller batches of it - I typically mix with just sour cream as a chip dip. For salads, I tend to prefer other dressings.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I used to like it, but nowadays I much prefer vinaigrettes. Ginger based Asian ones are good too. White sauces generally feel kinda heavy to me.

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I grew up in the Midwest and have hated it since I was a kid.

Oh the ostracization!

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sh.itjust.works

Try normal buttermilk dressing.

The stuff hidden valley makes is kind of a disgrace. They put so much extra s*** in it. It's ridiculous.

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oh yeah, for sure. If im going to serve it, that's what I would do. But I don't like dairy "sauces" or sour cream, mayo, none of that. Dairy dressings gross me out. But I have made it homemade for others in the past.

still gross to me though, nothing will change that lol

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Yep, they put so much extra s*** in it. You can't actually taste the buttermilk.

Trying any normal ass ranch or buttermilk dressing is delicious

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This is more than a job — it’s a cultural exchange powered by an incredibly versatile flavor

Good luck with that, don't die.

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lemmus.org

Ok but I have to break the news to you: I know many European people who have gone ape shit when they tried ranch for the first time.

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lemmy.world

I can never quite tell whether that means that they loathed it, or that they went mad for it.

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lemmy.world

It really is a terrible business. I had a friend who went the United States once, tried it, and then had a psychotic break where he started thinking he was a male sheep.

He ultimately had to be sent to a farm upstate for treatment. Some place called the Ram Ranch.

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they went wild, as in good. like when a dog gets its first taste of ice cream. they go bananas, knocking tables over and smashing into bookshelves to get their prissy little european hands on that tub of ronch

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The trick is to typically just tell them it's better milk dressing cuz that is what it is.

Really is only hidden valley ranch that tends to not be liked by a sparkling large number of people.

I've yet to really meet anyone who genuinely dislikes normal ranch AKA buttermilk dressing

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lemmy.zip

American Biscuits and Gravy is pretty much universally approved once they get past the appearance.

Tried it some relatives some time back. They were so confused/disgusted until they tried it. Wanted it every morning for their visit thereafter.

Every time I call them they mention missing it.

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indeed. also if they get a taste of kraft macaroni and cheese they basically get a tattoo of a box

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What's that "Ranch"? Just the usual mix of fat and sugar to drown any food and its taste with, good American style?

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Seeing the title photo of the article, I hope they will be put behind bars for capital culinary crimes.

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lemmy.world

I don't know how ranch tastes, but i always read "rank".

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sh.itjust.works

It's just buttermilk with some herbs. It mostly tastes like buttermilk.

So like a creamy butter sauce.

Hidden valley adds so much extra s*** that it's undetectable underneath it all, which is a big reason why people tend to say they don't like ranch. They specifically don't like hidden valley buttermilk dressing, but normal ass ranch dressing is typically fine.

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lemmy.world

You mean Hollandaise sauce or mayonaise?! 😄

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lemmy.world

I just showed this to my Italian work colleagues.

Ranch dressing on pizza....

Torches are lit, pitchforks are at the ready

And I haven't even explained to them what ranch dressing is yet

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Here's a mind blow ranch dressing AKA buttermilk dressing is sold more frequently in the EU than the US the US is fascination with ranch has declined over the last 30 years massively.

It's just hidden valley. An American company uses the term ranch so their competitors use the term ranch to compete with them here in the US. Since they're the biggest one pretty much everywhere else and the entire world, it's just called buttermilk dressing.

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omg this is literally about salad dressing. The photo looks AI too.

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