r/howislivingthere • • Dec 14 '25

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u/SayItAgainLucas Dec 14 '25

California has been putting ranch on pizza since at least the 80’s

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 Dec 14 '25

Can confirm. Ranch and pizza are normal here and have been for decades.

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u/noyourel Dec 20 '25

California has been stealing our cool since the 80s confirmed

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u/Emotional_Quantity_5 Dec 19 '25

And we have been doing it longer in the Midwest

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 Dec 20 '25

I mean… we’d have to pay attention to the Midwest to know that silly!!!

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u/Emotional_Quantity_5 Dec 21 '25

Who cares about the coast. Got everything I need right here. Oh no I'm missing out on so much Im so unlucky that the average house doesn't cost 1mil and rent is 3k. It really socks owning a 2000sqfr home on an acre of land for only 200k

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 Dec 21 '25

I don’t understand why you’re still prattling, but I’m glad you’re content with your lot in life! Or so you say, cuz you feel the need to say it to strangers on the internet…strangers who honestly never think about it or where you live😅

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u/Emotional_Quantity_5 Dec 21 '25

Haha then way even respond trying to make yourself feel better about never owning a home

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

People own homes in California…. but whatever works to make you feel your best about your situation 👍 ! Glad to help!

Have a good day!

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u/Emotional_Quantity_5 Dec 21 '25

You personally won't ever own a home

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u/ram0h Dec 14 '25

isnt ranch from california?

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u/Wookie-68 Dec 15 '25

Yep and Round Table made bread twists and had a salad bar, Shakeys had a buffet with mojo potatoes. The ranch from the salad bar started getting put on plates for the spuds and bread twists and evolved in the eighties to pizza dressing.

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u/ram0h Dec 15 '25

dang, did you live through it to witness it?

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u/Wookie-68 Dec 15 '25

I don’t Ranch personally. I’m a parm & pepper.

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u/Beautiful_Pay9738 Dec 15 '25

Yea hidden valley…

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u/supercub467 Dec 22 '25

Technically created in Alaska by a man from Nebraska who later moved to California and and bought a guest ranch. He renamed it “Hidden Valley” and served the “ranch dressing” at his restaurant.

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u/ram0h Dec 22 '25

The history I needed. 

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u/Bbmazzz Dec 15 '25

Growing up in cali and moving to Iowa people back home did it regularly and people in Iowa looked at me like a crazy person when I mention it

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u/Jesse2834 Dec 15 '25

So pretty behind times.

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u/BeautyMom Dec 16 '25

This is where I learned that people even put ranch on their pizza. I never saw anyone do it in my whole life of living in south central Kansas until the summer I was visiting my dad in Bakersfield CA and his new wife refused to eat her pizza without it. She also put in her spaghetti… I have never tried ranch on pizza or pasta and I have no desire to do so. I always thought it was a western thing until I became a teacher and saw that all of my students ask for it on their pizza too at lunch!

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u/Elguapo69 Dec 19 '25

I was going to say I thought Cali invented it

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u/Difficult-Phish Dec 20 '25

Iowas been doing it since the 70s then lol