# Why do some restaurants have "House sauce" instead of Ranch dressing?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-restaurants-have-house-sauce-instead-of-ranch-dressing/833802>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-restaurants-have-house-sauce-instead-of-ranch-dressing/833802 "2019-05-10T23:26:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-restaurants-have-house-sauce-instead-of-ranch-dressing/833802/46 "2019-05-24T20:20:49Z")

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> [@scr4](#):
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> My guess is, if you serve a ranch-like dressing that doesn’t taste exactly like the ranch dressing from a bottle, and call it ranch dressing, some customers will complain.

I would complain (not to the waitress, just an “eww” only people sitting with me would hear, maybe) if it did taste like bottled ranch. I can’t stand any bottled ranches, but sometimes quite like ranch served at some restaurants.

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