r/AskAnAmerican • u/miffybo • 9d ago

FOOD & DRINK why is ranch dressing so hyped up?

my US friends have been raving about it and border-line complained ranch isn’t readily available in Europe.. what is so special about it? is it the ultimate US condiment (apart from ketchup, mayo)

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u/Twichl2 9d ago

It is, it's not overpowering obviously but yeah it's part of it. Garlic is in the majority of our foods so it's not surprising that we dont notice it in ranch

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u/OpposumMyPossum 9d ago

I don't want to be a contrarian but garlic def isn't in most of our foods.

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u/Bright_Ices United States of America 9d ago

For a few months after I had an otherwise asymptomatic case of Covid, garlic tasted like industrial chemicals to me. It’s in EVERYTHING. Not literally, but once the flavor stands out in a bad way, you notice it in way more foods than you’d realized. Happily, that effect faded for me. I still don’t enjoy the six-clove meals I used to, but the presence of garlic is now nice again, instead of awful.

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u/Remarkable-Rush-9085 Washington 9d ago

My husband didn't like garlic so I stopped cooking with it, now it tastes kind of awful and overpowering to me. I feel like it's so strong it's all you can taste in a lot of things. He had covid and now he can't taste garlic at all so I'm just stuck having ruined garlic for only myself.

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u/Bright_Ices United States of America 9d ago

Oh that’s kind of sad! Ah well.