# What is your favorite salad dressing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355 "2015-07-16T19:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/1 "2015-07-16T19:48:31Z")
What’s your first choice at home? At a restaurant? At a _new_ restaurant? Do you always make your own dressing at home, or is bottled your choice? Brands? Does it vary by season? I’m on a salad kick and want to see how weird my favorites are. I’d make this a poll, but there are just too many choices out there. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/2 "2015-07-16T19:52:58Z")
Usually Thousand Island/Russian. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/3 "2015-07-16T20:10:09Z")
If we’re having salad at home I usually just make up a simple vinaigrette, generally just oil and balsamic with salt and pepper and maybe some herbs. Sometimes I put a little mustard in it. Once in a great while I’ll get ambitious enough to make a creamy Italian dressing of some kind. At a restaurant, I always order blue cheese dressing. That was the only kind of dressing I ever saw my dad order at a restaurant, and I started getting it when I was a kid to emulate him. It became my habit too, and now I just order it reflexively. ETA: we don’t keep bottled dressing around. We don’t use it fast enough, and it goes bad. And a vinaigrette is too easy to make. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/4 "2015-07-16T20:14:00Z")
I’m not usually a fan of Ken’s Steakhouse dressings, but lately I’ve been feeling like I could \*drink \*the [Lite Asian Sesame with Ginger & Soy](http://www.kensfoods.com/proddetail.php?id=24). Delicious! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/5 "2015-07-16T20:16:19Z")
I’m not sure exactly what it is called or what is in it even, but I love the orange (colour) dressing that many teppanyaki restaurants use. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/6 "2015-07-16T20:17:38Z")
At a restaurant, it’s always blue cheese – it’s become a habit, and I usually wish that I’d gotten blue cheese whenever I try something else. Unless a restaurant says that they make their own (a “house dressing” is not always made by the "house) – then I’ll usually give that a try. At home, it’s [Annie’s Goddess](http://www.annies.com/products/dressings/goddess-dressing). Love that stuff. I grew up in a house where the default was [Dorothy Lynch](http://www.dorothylynch.com/products). Do not love that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/7 "2015-07-16T20:19:09Z")
There is nothing as heavenly as a good bleu cheese dressing with nice, big chunks of cheese in a thick, creamy base. Once upon a time long, long ago, I’d opt for French or Catalina, but I got over it when I discovered bleu cheese. Pardon my drool… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/8 "2015-07-16T20:34:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’m not usually a fan of Ken’s Steakhouse dressings, but lately I’ve been feeling like I could \*drink \*the [Lite Asian Sesame with Ginger & Soy](http://www.kensfoods.com/proddetail.php?id=24). Delicious! Good stuff. I’ve got a bottle in the fridge. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > There is nothing as heavenly as a good bleu cheese dressing with nice, big chunks of cheese in a thick, creamy base. Yep! Got a BIG bottle (also Ken’s) of that in the fridge, too. I’ve been known to toss in a handful of extra crumbles as well. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/9 "2015-07-16T20:41:43Z")
Its a close tie between French and Ranch. I alternate between requesting the two. If I can only pick one. Give me the orange stuff. French Some places like Outback call it tangy tomato. But its really French dressing. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/10 "2015-07-16T20:42:47Z")
Italian. Wishbone is the brand that most tastes “right” to me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/11 "2015-07-16T20:54:37Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > I grew up in a house where the default was [Dorothy Lynch](http://www.dorothylynch.com/products). Do not love that stuff. I love Dorothy Lynch! I have to mail order it through Amazon, because it isn’t available out here. I also order Wishbone Western, since they no longer make Bacon Western. My default when eating out is Thousand Island. It’s hard to screw that up. But if we are eating a an upscale place, then I will opt for the _house-made_ bleu cheese. Emeril’s place **Delmonico** makes a dressing with Maytag that is downright sinful. But my all-time favorite dressing was the warm bacon dressing they used to serve at Sizzler. The stuff was finally outlawed in California in the interest of public safety. But it was _so good_. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/12 "2015-07-16T20:54:49Z")
Italian is my thing again. it was when I was a kid and it is again. Wishbone for me too. Although I think it has gotten more sweet lately, which I do not care for. I adore Olive Garden’s italian, and Pizza Hut’s creamy italian. The former is now bottled in stores. Yes!! ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/13 "2015-07-16T20:58:32Z")
I keep two dressings in the fridge - both Ken’s: the Lite Asian Sesame and the Sweet Vidalia Onion. I also like Russian, but rarely buy it unless I’m planning on using leftover cold rare beef for salads. It’s my favorite with cold rare beef. If I’m looking for a viniagrette, I make it myself. They are so very simple to do in a blender. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/14 "2015-07-16T21:00:51Z")
Another blue cheese fan here. I have some kind of “salad wrap” for dinner at least three times a week and 99% of the time I use blue cheese dressing…I’m kind of surprised I’m not tired of that flavor by now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/15 "2015-07-16T21:01:13Z")
Green goddess is my favorite but it’s hard to find and you never see it in restaurants. So I usually order Caesar’s or blue cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/16 "2015-07-16T21:15:26Z")
I’m glad to see some love for blue (bleu?) cheese dressing. It’s been my favourite for as long as I can remember. [Renée’s](http://www.renees.com/en/productinfo.aspx?id=re028) brand in Canada is quite good. Sometimes I’ll crumble my own extra blue cheese and mix it in. To die for. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/17 "2015-07-16T21:32:22Z")
Currently it’s raspberry vinaigrette. When I do use blue cheese dressing I also crumble in some extra chunks of blue cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/18 "2015-07-16T21:34:35Z")
Ranch is my go-to…lately I’ve been making my own with Hidden Valley’s powdered mix, some mayo and sour cream. I’ll typically order ranch in a restaurant too - Outback’s stands out in my mind - unless the wife and I are sharing a Caesar’s salad. Some of the higher end steakhouses make some damn fine homemade (I think) Ceasar’s dressing - mmmm…anchovies. I really should order blue cheese more though. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/19 "2015-07-16T21:58:56Z")
There’s this spot in town, a lunch place, I go and buy their homemade sesame seed, poppy seed, sorta sweet dressing, because I just adore it. Especially on a spinach salad. But sometimes I go throught an Italian dressing phase. Sometimes Russian. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355/20 "2015-07-16T22:12:35Z")
Pretty much always vinaigrette. I dislike ranch, except maybe as an ingredient (my brother has some mashed potatoes I love that have a little bit of ranch–not too much–cut into them, along with the normal creamy buttery ingredients.) Thousand Island is okay, but better on a burger or fries. French and Catalina are way too sweet for me (thousand island comes close, but I can tolerate it). Blue cheese is acceptable. Basically, I just want a little oil and a little acid on my salad. Maybe a bit of garlic. Keep it simple. I don’t want the dressing to be the focus of the salad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-salad-dressing/725355.md?page=2)