Ask the Midwest

Everything? No.

Anything? Yes.

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.

It's pretty good for dipping pizza and sweet potato fries in, but better with good house-made ranch and not hidden valley.

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 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!

Ranch is for fried foods and salad and maybe wings if the bleu cheese sucks at the restaurant. There are people who go overboard though.

Asking the real questions.

It's more a self-deprecating stereotype than anything else. I like it on celery and broccoli. Not really on salad. Pizza sometimes if its trash.

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...

Use it occasionally as a salad dressing, but that's about it.

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. :)

Don't think I've bought ranch in 15-20 years. Not a big fan huge fan of ketchup these days either. If I get a sauce at all it's usually honey mustard. Salad dressing I'm a bit across the board: Caesar, french, raspberry vinaigrette, just had a really good roasted sesame seed dressing.

Some ppl seem to like a sauce more than what they're putting it on. Don't think I've ever been that person.

Michigander here. I see this all the time, but it is not my thing.

It's great for dipping stuff like buffalo wings and pickle chips, but I definitely don't put it on everything. Not even pizza.

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

My wife makes it herself and we almost always have a stock of it in the fridge.

And is it good on tater tot hot dish?

Only if it's the stuff the restaurant makes from the powder with buttermilk/sour cream.

The bottled stuff from the store sucks.

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.

I don’t. I never cared for it all that much.

Ranch is good on Chicken Nuggets.

Especially the Taco Bell Avocado Ranch

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.

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.

It’s used wherever ketchup might be. Also pizza and I hear some weirdos put it on lettuce