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    • adhocfungus@midwest.social
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      9 days ago

      I was sitting in a Walmart parking lot in rural Iowa many years ago waiting for my inlaws to finish shopping. An older couple, probably early 60s, starts unloading their groceries into the station wagon next to me. The woman grabs a bottle of ranch from one of the bags, takes a long swig, screws the lid back on, tosses it into the trunk, and continues unloading the cart.

      It was the most American thing I’ve seen outside of a jail cell.

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’ve found that basically all commercial ranch (hidden valley) is mostly just soybean oil and doesn’t taste like shit.

        A local pizza joint to me has custom made ranch that is unironically amazing. YMMV.

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          Homemade ranch (or at least, mixed up on site for restaurants) can be really good. There’s a bar near me that serves a great ranch with their buffalo wings. The thick, globby stuff in the bottles never lives up to expectations.

          • grue
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            9 days ago

            Nothing wrong with thick, if it’s got good flavor. I wish I had gotten Po’ Folks (a southern food restaurant chain local to me) ranch dressing recipe before it went out of business during the pandemic. It actually had identifiable chunks of minced carrot etc. suspended in it.

            I miss it so much, along with a few other things from that place, that I’m almost motivated to try to track down somebody who used to work there and remembers.

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              9 days ago

              You can Google and find results for that ranch recipe. Not sure how it compares to the original.

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                9 days ago

                Got a link? I found one AJC article with a recipe for the tuna salad, which uses the ranch dressing as an ingredient, but it doesn’t include a recipe for the dressing itself.

                “That” ranch recipe, from that specific restaurant, is noticeably different from any ranch I’ve had anywhere else. Random southern-style ranch recipes aren’t what I’m looking for.

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          9 days ago

          Maybe this is just the American within me speaking, but I unironically enjoy comercial sauces. If it was disgusting, no one would buy them.

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          9 days ago

          Is the local place Jet’s? People go crazy for their ranch around here

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          9 days ago

          I love ranch sauce.

          This is not about ranch sauce specifically, but i found a good channel (FoodParables) which has a video for making your own ranch seasoning at home. If it’s of interest. Linked on the channel name in brackets

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        9 days ago

        I tried some Paul Newman’s Ranch once, never having had ranch before. It was bloody awful!

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      9 days ago

      Diplet detected.

      Ranch is merely the primer for the second coating of whichever sauce you prefer.

      • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 days ago

        some people have their lizard brains react very poorly to the amount of sugar and fat and salt that’s inside modern hyper palatable food. i don’t think many people necessarily want to get fat enough to be at risk for various diseases, it just happens to them. and there are also people more at risk for impulsive actions or less control over their actions, like people with adhd and autism.

        a lot of the information on nutrition out there is also either pure propaganda or meant to muddy the waters, so sometimes for people who aren’t very into nerding out over things it can be difficult to understand what good nutrition might be like.

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      9 days ago

      Really good freshmixed stuff is 3x better than generic store bought.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        A lot of the places use to much mayo when they mix and it ends up mayo sauce. I’ve heard good things about cutting down the mayo with sour cream though.

    • RightHandOfIkaros
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      9 days ago

      Its almost the same as the fascination the Japanese have with mayonnaise, honestly.

      I guess its some kind of cultural palette thing.

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    At some point you gotta admit the nuggies are only there so you’re not shoving spoonfuls of ranch down your gullet

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        I touch myself during the day because a dick in my hand is super fucking hot. Usually its not mine but if thats all I got, I gotta get it.

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          a dick in my hand is super fucking hot.

          He says, as he has a profile pic of Andre the giant. Who’s dick was said to be bigger than some peoples arms…

          sees username

          Oh…

    • RightHandOfIkaros
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      9 days ago

      Do we need to link you a suicide prevention hotline?

      With eating habits like Anon, you’re just asking for heart failure.

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      9 days ago

      Idk about ranch, but sour cream works very well with anything tomato-based, with mild-ish hot sauces, or with mustard. It’s preferable to not mix the two sauces too much, so they both can be felt on the tongue.

      Or, you can mix sour cream with strawberry jam and dip pancakes into it. Better yet, wrap marinated mushrooms in crepes and dip that.

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        9 days ago

        I know this is gonna sound weird but big trust me on this one chief:

        Cream Cheese and A1 steak sauce. Use in a ratio of like 2 or 3 to 1 part A1. Don’t mix it, just drizzle on top of the cream cheese. Works best on toasted bread or crackers.

        Good as an appetizer for parties and gatherings. You can also sub the steak sauce for raspberry chipotle sauce, but I find A1 is easier to get.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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          9 days ago

          Jimmy deans breakfast sausage in a tube sautéed, drain grease well, fry hot or sweet peppers plus onions in the pan. Mix in a crock pot and put on low till its melted. Then keep it on warm.

          Big dippers

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          okay i’m gonna blow your mind. they got this stuff called labne. it’s like sour cream and cream cheese fucked. it’s absolutely delicious. you gotta try it

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    9 days ago

    “diplet detected”

    People will pick anything to act superior about, huh

    • Agent641
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      Some people are just better at being Superior than others

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      9 days ago

      I mean, that’s basically the entire premise of any insult on 4chan. The original days had anything be an insult simply by appending ‘-fag’ at the end.

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      8 days ago

      And coronary occlusion emergency surgery. Sooner or later.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      they really are the greatest utensil. I’d always wanted to scoop noodles directly into my mouth with my hands, but it was so unhygenic and I’d frequently get burned!

      • MinnesotaGoddam
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        8 days ago
        Click at your own risk but i have another solution for your unique problem.

        • snoons@lemmy.ca
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          8 days ago

          One of the many reasons research into the health effects of microplastic polution is so slow is because latex/vinyl gloves are themselves a source of microplastic contamination.

    • dejected_warp_core
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      Really, these are great for most things and a dirt-cheap hygiene option too. Use them for potato chips, cheetos, cheeze-its… everything where you’re tempted to lick salt/powder/sugar off of your fingers. Did we really learn nothing from the pandemic?

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        I just wash my hands before I eat things, but I guess everybody is different, good for you for coming up with a creative solution.

      • MinnesotaGoddam
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        No and I refuse to learn anything from it I’m in statesia I have been very clear.

      • snoons@lemmy.ca
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        Fyi some cultures in nhe middle east use their hands to eat all their food. They just make sure to wash up first.

        IIRC a friend of mines first impression of a fork and knife was “such a waste of good metal”.

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    Anon is so sauce-pilled that he buries th fkavour and texture of the actual nugget. He is PUNISHING himself

    • Hoimo@ani.social
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      9 days ago

      I know mine does it, but it could be a feature of the 4chanX extension? I haven’t used 4chan without it in years. It’s not direct quotes, but you click the number to see the post inline.