It's the Greatest generation's fault. They invented it, And their Boomer children for eating it up.
Raising Canes Sucks
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TBF ranch and Buffalo sauce are the only 2 commercial chicken sauces that have any amount of acidity at all. Everything else is in the almost dessert camp
Ranch is more of a midwest thing. The south likes sweet stuff. West coast is all about healthy.
It gets consumed everywhere. It doesn't become the biggest dressing in America off the Midwest alone. Plenty of people on both coasts drowning food in that stuff.
Sure but it's required in the Midwest. Not the crappy shelf stuff either. Gotta be home made. On the coasts I mostly saw it as a salad dressing. In the Midwest people drink it.
First those who don't like ranch. WTH do you dip your bone in wings in? Blue cheese? I mean, blue cheese is acceptable, but it ain't ranch.
It was when people started ruining perfectly good pizza with it that all was lost
I prefer blue cheese, but will use ranch if that's all there is. There are times when ranch dressing is the right condiment, just not all the time like my wife does.
As far as chicken dipping sauce, honey mustard and sweet & sour are two personal favorites
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Bang bang sauce is underrated as well on chicken.
Once as a waiter at Outback in 90s a woman told me her soup was cold (after finishing it) and she had eaten the little bowl of ranch that came out with someone's cheese fries as if if was soup. Dead serious. At the time the cheese fries did come with a little ceramic bowl that did look kind of like a small soup bowl, where the other sauces would come in the cups that were obviously dipping sauces.
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Good juicy seasoned fried chicken doesn't need sauce at all...but buffalo wings come drenched in spicy buffalo sauce anyway, so the idea of a second sauce on top of the sauce they are drenched in has always seemed nonsensical to me. Why do people stop at two different sauces on the same wing? Why not dip in 7 or 8 sauces?
Cane's needs sauce because I'm not sure they even use salt and pepper on the chicken.
They do. Most batters start with flour, salt, and pepper, then go to whatever herbs and spices that makes it theirs. Maybe the level of S&P you prefer isn't high enough, but I can surely taste it. They also marinate their chicken, not sure what's in it though.