Ranch dressing on pizza

I don’t know, but I’m a willing participant. It’s especially good on a vegetarian pizza.

It's been a while now. Maybe 10 years (or more?) when I first started seeing it broadly (granted, I live in the Midwest). I've tried it and it was surprisingly decent. But, I hardly ever order ranch with pizza.

Ranch goes well with bread.

I first saw it at sixth grade camp with my students twenty years ago. I was horrified, but the camp's cook said that students had been doing it for years...

This is why they hate us...

Yeah, I agree, R4, at least that long. .. And some on the Internets say people at Domino's started dipping their pizza in the Ranch dressing that came with their chicken wings back in the mid-90s.

I remember in THE REAL WORLD: LONDON (1995) Mike from Missouri complained about there not being any ranch dressing in the UK and had his family ship some from home.

I think in the Midwest ranch is essential in many households and isn't just used on salads.

R4 Mary!

Who are they?

And why do you care how people eat their pizza?

I worked at Pizza Hut in 2007 and it was an option on the menu. Almost no one asked for it.

The quality of ranch dressing - if you like it to begin with - varies drastically.

I'm not a purist, I suppose it's fine if you like ranch dressing. I can't tolerate the stuff on anything. It tastes like the odor that earthworms emit when they crawl out of the ground on a rainy day.

The US is a sick country

Better than the pineapple shit. I'll have it on icassion. But I love ranch on anything.

RAAAAAANNNCH!!

The culinary equivalent of mucus.

Pardon my elder ignorance, but does the pizza also include mozzarella?

I intuitively would dip my pizza in ranch as a kid. A lot of people did. It wasn't something that was taught. It just taste good.

The ranch dressing is used instead of tomato sauce, r15. Yes, it still has cheese.

Thank you, r17.

In Australia, major chains insist on putting herb aioli on vegetarian pizzas.

No thank you.

My nephew stayed with me for a few weeks over Christmas. I had never tried it until then. Now I love it.

On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, it is a common practice to dip pizza in Catalina French dressing.[2]

Back at the ranch….

One of my friend's wives is a lunch lady in an elementary school and she says the kids put ranch dressing on everything.

Fucking Midwest.

My ex-sister in law and her family did it back in the 2000s and they're from California.

Gross. What’s next, pouring a can of cream of mushroom soup on the pizza and sprinkling little french-fried onion bits on top?

This wasn’t typical in Chicago as much as Flyoverstan.

R26 “Try our new green bean casserole pizza, at 2 Fat Whores!”

I put ranch on fries.

I do try to be a good Christian soul (or something, vaguely, remotely, maybe only a little bit like), but when someone raves about Ranch Dressing or tells me how much they like it on whatever, I can't help but judge them quite severely.

They make light ranch that’s yogurt and buttermilk based. It’s not bad. I think it’s the bolthouse brand?

Ranch goes well on anything!

It’s an abomination out of the lurid middle American eating machine.

Like Hot Pockets.

“What’s your favorite Thai food?”

“Oh there’s this one Thai hot pocket i love!”

Exactly, r33.

Don’t come into Jersey trying that shit.

I grew up in Southern California (San Diego area), and when I was 18 years old, moved out to Western NY (to a suburb of Buffalo).

Pizza and wings were a once-a-week dinner thing, and people dipped both their wings AND pizza into Ranch dressing. Yes, I know that wings are usually a blue cheese with celery and carrot sticks thing, but most people asked for Ranch dressing as opposed to blue cheese, and many did the pizza dipping into said Ranch.

This was in 1987 (lived there for about 10 years).

"Fucking Midwest."

I have no doubt that's where it probably started and continues to have its center, but I've seen it more broadly around the country at this point.

Because Jersey is a bastion of universally sophisticated eating, R34?

Who the fuck cares what other people eat or enjoy. How odd.

They were doing it in the 90s in elementary school during lunch. We usually had celery and/or carrot sticks as our veggie on pizza days so there was always plenty of ranch. I never tried it,

I also like fry sauce on my fries (mayo and ketchup), when I pass through Mormon country.

No r37 but Jersey has a zillion Italians and they have real pizza there.

ew

R19 When in Australia, I was thrown when first asked if I wanted "cap-see-cum" on my pizza, an apparently popular term for bell pepper.

[quote] It’s an abomination out of the lurid middle American eating machine.

The ultimate example, those who dip Oreo cookies in Ranch dressing. Yes, it's a thing.

I was born before 2000 and I was raised in an area well within a day's drive of the ocean, so I don't do this.

r45 what does being "raised in an area well within a day's drive of the ocean" have to do with with the price of tea in China?

I'm almost 99.999999% sure that there are PLENTY of Floridians who use Ranch dressing as their main condiment (including pizza dipping).

R46 All deplorables transported from flyoverstan.

I like the Green Goddess dressing on the Tombstone Asparagus and Orange Slice Pizza.

GOOD ranch dressing is something I admit to enjoying from time to time. The Kraft stuff is nasty. Needs to be house made. It does pair well with garlic bread or cheesy garlic bread, but it also works well with veggies like broccoli and carrots. Something some people seem to forget exist! My preference is to save this waistline-unfriendly dip for a special time when one will also be having Ruffles potato chips. (No other brand will do.) Burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, beans, ruffles and ranch dip .. )That's summer BBQ nostalgia right there.

Anyway, a really good NY style pizza should not require any dipping sauce. I think dipping in ranch became popular due to the crappy crust at many pizza places in the midwest. Then some were like,, oh let's try it as the sauce on the pizza. And it works with some toppings, I admit, but it's not my preference.

This is better.

R26 You can already find recipes for Cream of Mushroom Soup pizza - yes, using a can of Campbell's!

R50 For pepperoni pizza 🍕, it’s to die for!

It's good, especially on crusts or non-meat pizzas.

Guess what's also good on pizza? [quote]KETCHUP!

If I had a dinner companion who put ranch dressing on anything…I’m afraid I’d have to reconsider my entire life!

I love ranch on pizza, but when I went to Italy I asked at several pizza restaurants and not one of them had ranch! I thought Italy was the land of pizza, but I got a lot of blank stares from the waiters.

[quote] Because Jersey is a bastion of universally sophisticated eating, [R34]?

Come here and say that.

It's a way to add salt and perhaps umami. That tastes "good" to the bastardised trash and baby tastes of retarded Americans.

Some places have delicious house-made ranch. I'll get it sometimes to dip my crust. JUST the crust. I also like a side of pizza sauce for that.

The worst kind of ranch is the fat free in the shelf stable bottle. Texture is just awful. 🤢

The colored folk like that!

[quote]JUST the crust

What about the tip?

Ranch dressing goes well with everything!!

Hidden Valley Ranch ice cream, anyone?

I have seen the face of God, and it is at the photo at r63.

R46 thinks every Floridian is born and raised in Florida.

This is only a thing done by people raised without any concept of culture beyond the small town or suburb they grew up in. I'm sure that describes people in other places but it definitely describes the majority of the American interior.

Well, if LIVING within a day's drive of the ocean automatically means you are somehow more refined and would be adverse to choosing to use Ranch dressing on your food, you'd be wrong about that. I know plenty of people who fit your criteria of living within a day's drive of the ocean who use Ranch dressing as a condiment.

Also, if a middle American MOVED to a place within a day's drive of the ocean, wouldn't that mean that they'd - by osmosis - now be transformed to NOT want to use Ranch dressing on their food?

(See how ridiculous your argument is?)

Oh my god, R66. Get a fucking life you loser.

what is a recipe or commercial brand of an edible ranch dressing?

I've got a life...within a 30 minute drive of the ocean.

There is a lot of elitist bashing of ranch dressing that annoys the fuck out of me. There is definitely bad ranch dressing (most all of it that comes at room temperature in a bottle is disgusting), but freshly made ranch dressing has a great flavor (dill, parsley, chives, garlic, onion, pepper are the main herbs/spices) and pairs well with many things. It was invented in Alaska of all places on a ranch, hence the name. In France and Belgium, put mayonnaise on their fries (which is also good), and nobody seems to turn their nose up at that.

I will admit that asking for ranch dressing for your pizza in Italy like R55 did is crazy.

R68 Ken’s Steakhouse Ranch (bottled) is pretty good. I also like Marie’s or Litehouse in the refrigerated case. Newman’s own isn’t terrible but it’s the least of these.

Ranch dressing goes on everything and anything.

I used to love dipping the crusts in it but my cat started licking it all off my plate and pizza so I stopped. It was a lot of extra calories anyway

It is extra calories but sometimes its the only way to stomach a salad.

I read “Litehouse” is best. Just put that on tomorrow’s shopping list.

R71 Thank you. Anyone have a recipe for making it at home?

The mix that Hidden Valley sells to make yourself at home, includes all the ingredients except for buttermilk and mayonnaise. The first 2 ingredients aside from those, are Salt and Monosodium Glutamate.

Ranch dressing is high among the white trashiest of white trash foods, the bottom of the American food barrel (and proud of it.) Insisting that there is good white trash ranch dressing and bad white trash ranch dressing is like insisting that Guy Fieri is a culinary genius.

How is ranch dressing on opossum?

I never heard of it until I read it here just now.

Poor people like the taste of ranch. They like it on anything. It’s a savage condiment.

Don't really give a shit if it's a ""poor person's" condiment. Good ranch is tasty.

[quote]There is a lot of elitist bashing of ranch dressing ...

Ranch dressing isn't be bashed, per se. It's the use of it on things like pizza. If it's good on the crust, the order bread sticks or something.

[quote]In Australia, major chains insist on putting herb aioli on vegetarian pizzas

That actually doesn't sound bad. At least it's a sauce found in the Mediterranean, like mayonnaise. I think it would be good on pizza with shrimp and basil. But not mozzarella, parmesan maybe.

Mayonnaise (when done right) is a sauce, and mayo on fries is delicious. Aioli is even better, IMHO. I make a batch of aioli every few days. It comes in handy for a lot of stuff.

Fat chicks drink it with vodka

Are we sure we want to blame this on the Midwest / America?

I first saw this in Vancouver - being done by a NYer.

R83 “My fat daughter swears by it!”

Bolthouse Farms ranch is 50! 50 calories per serving!

Gross - pizza is good on its own. Why slather it in chemical dairy liquid?

Unless it's not the best pizza - just cheap pizza - what are you all DOING?

PS I've never seen anyone do it. So this may be a flyoverstan thing - which is why they're so fat.

It's NOT just a flyoverstan thing - stop kidding yourself. It's everywhere. I already said way upthread I lived in New York in the late 80s and 90s and they dipped their pizzas there, too.

There's also something called "chicken finger subs."

Just no. No chicken on pizza at all ever. I'd take escargot on pizza before chicken or ranch.

Slime

Absolutely disgusting