Stuff I Didn't Know About: Ranch Dressing

Slate magazine posted an interesting article about ranch salad dressing here. Stuff I didn't know:

1) There really was a Hidden Valley Ranch, and ranch dressing really was invented there.

2) The secret to ranch's success: it's the calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate!

3) Alarming bit: Pizza Hut now sells pizza cut into "dippin strips" for dipping into ranch dressing.


Me, I prefer blue cheese if I want a dressing with about 1000 calories per tablespoon.