Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: Let's battle. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't get. I
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't get I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. Now, if
Speaker 1: anything like me, you know that it's ranch over blue
Speaker 1: cheese at all costs. Who wants to dip their delicious
Speaker 1: wings and some old liquid cheese In the words of
Speaker 1: the Great Keith Sweat, no body, babe. And of course
Speaker 1: it's ranch over blue cheese. Everybody knows that. And when
Speaker 1: I think of ranch, the only ranch I really think
Speaker 1: about is Hidden Valley. But after some homework, there is
Speaker 1: a reason why Hidden Valley is the best. It's because
Speaker 1: it's got matt hear me O. Steve Hanson. He was
Speaker 1: a plumber from this tiny village of Fair, Nebraska. He
Speaker 1: came up with the dressing mix around nineteen fifty. So
Speaker 1: he were doing a stint in Anchorage, Alaska as a
Speaker 1: construction worker, and there he would occasionally cook for the
Speaker 1: crew and they loved it. By nineteen fifty, old Steve
Speaker 1: and his wife Gail bought some property near Santa Barbara, California.
Speaker 1: It was called Sweetwater Ranch, but they ain't like that name,
Speaker 1: so they renamed it to Hidden Valley Ranch, and they
Speaker 1: opened it as a guess ranch and people would just
Speaker 1: pull up. Now the story goes the place became even
Speaker 1: more popular as a steakhouse with Steve's dressing as a
Speaker 1: favorite souvenir. They said people would carry it home in
Speaker 1: mannage jars. They said it was the original red hots
Speaker 1: because they put that ish on everything, steaks, vegetables, potatoes,
Speaker 1: chill like we do now. We put ranch on pizza.
Speaker 1: Folks dip their wings in it, put it on salad, carrots.
Speaker 1: It was in such huge demand by the late nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties that your boy Steve Hansen began packaging the dry ingredients. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would put all the ingredients and an envelope and
Speaker 1: then he emiled to the folks and they'll add their
Speaker 1: own buttermilk and mayonnaids at the crib. So the like
Speaker 1: boxed cake mix. Now, man, who would have thunk it?
Speaker 1: Hen Valley Ranch invented by a black man in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty on his ranch named Hidden Valley. Now I take
Speaker 1: that to school or work with you because I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either,