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!!!
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.
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.
My money is on Italy the moment they try using it as pasta sauce.
If they can even survive past asking why their pizza doesn’t have any cheese on it.
I want to throw up out of every orifice of my body right now. Even my pores.
Or basically any other food, for that matter.
Okay I get that it might be dangerous but I’m not sure if I am more or less intrigued now
It’s fine as long as they livestream it
Depends on which country they land first. If it’s Spain and the throw that shit on a paella…
Yo this is how you start WWIII
In Europe they don’t know what ranch is so Cool Ranch Doritos are called Cool American Doritos…
in ireland its called Cool Original
TIL I don’t like ranch.
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.
To be fair, ranch and cool ranch are somewhat different
And with what Americans have been up to recently, they’re going to have to rename it again.
Til ranch is only American
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.
Ranch it up bro!
Honestly, if he isn’t picked they are just losing money on this.
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?
They keep inventing new forms of terrorism
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.
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?
If they’re anything like me, I think the europeans just wouldn’t know wtf you’re dousing your meal with
This is more than a job — it’s a cultural exchange powered by an incredibly versatile flavor
Good luck with that, don’t die.
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.
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.
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.
I want to see an American eat haggis with ranch
Now I want a scotch egg dipped in ranch.
Seeing the title photo of the article, I hope they will be put behind bars for capital culinary crimes.
My unpopular opinion
Ranch is disgusting
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
agreed wholley
I grew up in the Midwest and have hated it since I was a kid.
Oh the ostracization!
They should bring Eric Andre along, he knows how to Ranch It Up!
I’ve been to a few places in Europe where I know that if I brought in ranch and put it on the food, I’d be killed.
Eh, they don’t even have guns over there, how dangerous can they be?
Knives. A lot of knives in any kitchen.
Free food, traveling across Europe, and all the ranch I can eat? Sign me the fuck up
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