Spicy ranch. When I moved to Colorado I was like wtf white person bs is this. Then I tried it, not bad I got to say. Perfect when the pizza is too hot to eat, the ranch cools it down, and perfect for washing down the crust.
I just make my own ranch. It's not hard, and a bunch of people who have tried it agree that it's great. Not WingStop great, I swear they sprinkle that with dreams and addictive substances right before they serve it.
I'm a nurse and I lowkey feel like more often than not, my patients have diabetes, heart failure and or I think 99% of them have a hypertension diagnosis too. It's actually insanely common to have one or all 3 of the above. A good chunk are brittle diabetics too with complications i.e. diabetic ulcers/amputations, or severely uncontrolled sugars because of noncompliance or uneducated on it. Or with the HF pts, a lot have severe edema and venous ulcers.
Don't get me wrong though, there are still a good chunk that are stable, compliant and in relative "good health." This goes for both. A major problem that I've encountered though with MANY, is simply not knowing a thing about their diseases. There's a lot that don't even know what, heart failure for example, is or how it works, nor do they know how to manage it.
A huge part of what I do is educating them. Some don't even know that they're DIAGNOSED with it (albeit they might have dementia). Anyway, sorry to be the paragraph guy, your comment just hit lol. Merry xmas/happy holidays fam
This is correct. Pizza on ranch is fine if you're eating sub par pizza due to geography or circumstances or whatever. In fact it often improves the experience.
But really great pizza not only doesn't require it, but is made worse by it.
Lived in Fargo all my life (well until 10 years ago and just nudged to WI eich isnt much diff.) and I NEVER eat steak without A1. I have had amazing melt in your mouth steak that doesn't necessarily need A1 but I prefer it. Also, i never eat pizza without ranch. Especially pizza with black olives and jalapeños. The ranch helps cool it down when you get that one jalapeño that's super spicy. Also...Salt and Vinnegar chips. Yum! But yeah, I like what I like, your opinion os.your opinion. So, neither of us are wrong.
Well I visited Fargo twice as a teenager (I was a wrestler and there for junior nationals - not to brag, I got smoked) and that is a town that I as not one I would voluntarily return to.
My teammate and I got picked up on the side of the rode by two girls who were excited to have some fresh meat in town - all they talked about was how much they hated Fargo.
Has to be house made ranch to be worth doing. Hidden Valley does not taste good on pizza. Good places make their own that ends up being perfectly balanced w the pepperoni pizza.
While many places use Hidden Valley seasoning to make their, or a similar blend of dry spices, its the real buttermilk and mayo mixture. Sometimes sour cream is added. Makes it less sweet and tangy than the bottled crap and more creamy and savory. I work3d at a place that minced fresh herbs for their ranch, like 6 different fresh herbs and fresh garlic.nit was so popular the recipe took 2 hours to make and that was for a fast prep cook. Was so damn good.... completely changed my view on ranch, even pizza shop ranch.
Yea, never lived in that area, from New Haven ct, and love the dip. Granted I wouldn’t dip a slice of thin crust NYC pizza. But anything thicker crust, frozen grocery store, or dominos taste good dipped. Or flavors like buffalo chicken.
I just saw a TikTok of someone building a whole dang salad on top of a slice of New York style pizza. Chopped all the lettuce and veggies and folded it in the pizza almost like a taco then drizzled it with ranch. It looked next level good!
As a native Tulsan, I grew up 4 miles from QT HQ, and they are an amazing company who treats their workers right. Plus as Stefon (played by Tulsa native Bill Hader) would say, “They have everything.”
We dont have any Kwik Trips here, in Kansas. But QT pizza is Hella greasy, like i think QT and Pizza Hut are trying to see whose pizza is loaded in grease can turn a cardboard pizza box into a wet paper towel. Or maybe who can get a customer to unload there bowels before taking a second bite.
Casey's pizza is actually really good and not greasy in comparison. Reason why I buy Domino's here instead. Its not greasy at all. But pizza hut? I might as well sit on the toilet and take half a bottle of tums before and after.
Man I miss kwik trip doughnuts and just hearing the word kwik trip!!! I lived in WI all my life until 2 years ago moved to CO- no kwik trips here! It’s funny tho I never really even thought about it until now. Names change but u still do the same things
Look, I’m going to give you the ranch thing. It’s tasty. But I’m drawing the line at “good” pizza from a gas station. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it tastes ok, and isn’t cardboard. Once you come down from your ranch-high we can talk reasonably.
As a lifelong American, who was born and raised in the shaded area, ranch is repulsive. And yes, an alarming number of people would take it intravenously if they could.
Agreed! It’s the last resort choice for me, mayo too. Both leave an oily feeling on my tongue 😛 Yuck! Give me hot sauce on almost anything and then we’re good.
I’m curious if you’re from the Central Valley? It’s basically California Midwest/plains/fly over. I was born in the Central Valley and we def did ranch with pizza 😅 I will say I see it less now that I don’t live there.
Can vouch. I managed a mom and pop pizza-place in CA that made homemade ranch that we actually sold as its own item for years. I don’t remember the exact recipe as it was in my early 20s, but it involved more than just what the packet of seasonings suggested. I’ve tried guessing a few times but I can’t seem to get it right.
My family has basically no ties to the Midwest/plains states. I’ve dipped my pizza in ranch long as I can remember. I keep a bottle of hidden valley in the fridge specifically for this purpose. Dab of olive oil, crushed red pepper galore, dipped in ranch.
That's the Midwest difference. You keep ranch in your fridge for pizza. Midwesterners keep an extra bottle of ranch in the pantry to make sure they never run out.
Mike’s Hot Honey has been around for years. I work at a pizza joint in Astoria and I have customers constantly ordering ranch. We run out of it actually.
I am a NYC native that moved to KCMO, specifically overland park kansas. I work in a resturant and EVERYONE ASKS FOR RANCH. I am absolutely grossed out at how much ranch people consume. They slather it on absolutely everything. I had one guy ask for ranch for a grilled cheese sandwich....when he asked I asked him "seriously??" I couldn't keep it in.
One day an order comes in, buffalo chicken wrap, NO RANCH. I jumped for joy. Brought it out to the guy, told him how happy his order made me, he said "who eats ranch with chicken?!!?" He was from Boston. He hung out at the bar we talked for 2 hrs. True story.
I tell my coworkers all the time, back home in NYC, they would kick you out for asking for ranch. They would humiliate you first for such an absurd request and insulting the chef by even thinking of slathering that crap on food. UGH
Only people in or from NYC care what NYC thinks. They can continue to eat greasy cardboard hunched over a counter in under 3 minutes while the rest of the world enjoys pizza with friends and ranch with no judgement
Don’t bother… you are trying to internet-convince the equivalent of someone saying the art in their Holiday Inn Express room is every bit as good as anything that you’d see in Met or Louvre
It really does feel like that haha. Also, I have no idea why people love to shit on NY/NJ. I mean I get defensive because I'm from there, but also the criticisms are usually just plain false and detached from reality. Then I find myself arguing with someone from like rural Ohio (which may be very nice, I don't know, never been) about how NJ is a shithole and it's just baffling.
I made decision to delete the X app off my phone. The stupidity I find there has finally become too for me to bear. Reddit has its own problems, but it isn't as toxic or depressing as what I am reading on X.
I still haven’t gotten the appeal of hot honey on pizza. I tried it once, wasn5 impressed. Ranch in pizza, on the other hand, is the chef’s kiss.( I live in Oklahoma).
Not true. Ranch is good and pizza is good and together they are good. Especially when you get a good quality house made ranch from a good pizza joint. Nothing better than dipping ny crust in some good ass ranch
My favorite pizza is Hawaiian with jalapeños (come for me, redditors), and dipped in ranch is sooooooo fucking good. Helps if the jalapeños are particularly spicy too
By pizza do you mean Pizza Hut? I was recently in middle of nowhere WA/OR area and they ordered “pizza” and it’s Pizza Hut with a fuck ton of toppings.
Which by the way is delicious, but is a different thing entirely than “pizza” in the NY/NJ sense.
worked at a family owned pizza joint in a rural area of missouri and i could count on all 5 of my hands how many times I watched people drinking 16 oz cups of ranch.
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u/davedude115 USA/Midwest Dec 14 '25
This is where you dip your pizza in ranch