Ranch is great on the side salads served with dinner plates at many Mexican restaurants. Unlike blue cheese dressing or any of the others, Ranch does not compete with the many good Mexican flavors in the other items.

Ranch is good anytime you want a blander accompaniment to fried foods or veggies. Cheap ranch dressing on Carl's Jr Crisscut Fries is excellent!

I love it!!!

Love it on french fries, tater tots, cheese sticks, potato chips, great on burgers, zucchini stix. I aint found much it aint good on, its even the way I prefer my pizza with a ranch base instead of the typical ikky red sauce.

Bring on the Ranch...WooHoo....

I used to work with an older guy that was rather fun loving. He took a small group to Lou Malnati's in Chicago for deep dish pizza for lunch one day. One of his buddies, Darnel, couldn't go, so he brought back the pizza "bones" for him. What a laugh we all got. Thanks for making me remember.

That said, for those who add hot sauce to ranch, I tried Safeway's Jalapeño Ranch Dressing. Had a nice kick with a chile flavor and the great taste of ranch!

I'm not a big fan of ranch dressing - I much prefer a good blue cheese or failing that, Thousand Island or honey mustard. But I have to eat more salad and less carbs because of my blood sugar, so I've relented and bought some Newman's for variety. I don't like most bottled blue cheese dressings (stuff like Kraft "Roka" :puke:), so at only 2g of carbs per tablespoon, the ranch will suffice.

I'm with you, I hate Ranch.

If I get any salad (besides Caesar) its either vinigrette or Italian that goes on it.

I've never been a big fan of ranch - celery cries out for bleu cheese and wings cry out for more sauce - but after reading this thread, I think I'll skip it altogether.

There's a novel concept.

This could be because Ranch has so many uses, but I have heard that it is the best selling salad dressing.

Ranch is over rated...better than nothing though. How about that Honey Mustard...it's the best. :)

Probably cuz that's the only way to get a lot of kids to eat salad and veggies once they're out of toddlerhood. :(

i know i have said this before, but RANCH IS TAKING OVER THE WORLD!! I despise ranch. my sister in law eats everything with ranch. i prefer 1000 island.

But don't you find it frustrating that all Ranch tastes like Ranch - yes, some are better than others, but they all pretty much have the same flavor? Yet,
Thousand Island can be wonderful or really bad and the flavor varies tremendously from brand to brand. I really like good Thousand Island dressing, but buying it or ordering it does not guarantee that I'll get anything I like. If I order or buy Ranch, I know what it is going to taste like.

Ranch can be anything from bland gross stuff to very sublime and flavorful. If it's in a package or came from a package, chances are, it sucks. It's not one of my favorite dressings but will do if my choices are "Thousand Island, Ranch, Italian, and Bleu Cheese". I find bad Blue Cheese dressing FAR FAR more offensive than bad ranch. Peppercorn ranch is a nice twist and can be very very tasty. My favorite though, is Caesar dressing. Gotta second the Ken's vote. I ALWAYS have a bottle in the fridge. Makes plain 'ol Iceberg taste awesome.

I don't mind ranch dressing where I would otherwise use butter (A baked potato) but on a salad it doesn't work for me at all. I usally go with lemon herb.

all ranch tastes the same to me, ranch is ranch. i agree with the hit or miss 1000 island. alot of people dont like the "chunks".

Ranch dressing goes great with: fried cheese, fried zucchini, fried mushrooms, curly fries (all other fries go better with mayo but onion rings go with ketchup), and really thick tortilla chips (but alternating with salsa on some, ranch on others).

Buffalo wings are always eaten with blue cheese. Buffalo tenders, however, have trouble holding the chunks and sometimes are better with ranch.

The best ranch is to get a side of wing sauce and mix the wing sauce into the ranch. That also works well with blue cheese dressing.

None of these things are on my dietary plan... but I know from experience that they taste good.

Oh, and only eat ranch where they MAKE the dressing. Homemade ranch is TEN times (or more) better than the acidic crud. I won't eat ranch out of hte bottle.