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Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com

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Speaker 1: where smart happens. Hi, I'm Marshall Brain with Today's Christian

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Speaker 1: Where do salad dressings get their bizarre names? Although manufacturers

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Speaker 1: introduce new flavors all the time, many consumers stick to

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Speaker 1: their longtime favorites and salad dressings. These include Ranch, French, Italian, Caesar,

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Speaker 1: blue Cheese, and Thousand Island and many dressings available in

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Speaker 1: stores and restaurants are just variations on these traditional favorites.

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Speaker 1: Most of the dressings you use either are creamy and

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Speaker 1: have mayonnaise as the base ingredient, or their oily and

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Speaker 1: they have salad oil as the base ingredient. The herbs, spices,

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Speaker 1: and other flavorings are added to make a certain kind

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Speaker 1: of dressing. So here are some of the favorites. First,

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Speaker 1: there's Thousand Island dressing. It was named for the thou

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Speaker 1: was an island region and Upstate New York where the

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Speaker 1: dressing originated. The region, along the St. Lawrence Seaway and

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Speaker 1: Lake Ontario, is a popular spot for fishermen and hunters

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Speaker 1: and other tourists. The key ingredients in this dressing are

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Speaker 1: mayonnaise and chili sauce, which is made from peppers and tomatoes.

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Speaker 1: The tiny chunks in the dressing are finely chopped pickles, onions, olives,

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Speaker 1: and hard cooked egg. Ranch dressing actually originated on a ranch,

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Speaker 1: in this case the Hidden Valley Guest Ranch near Santa Barbara, California.

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Speaker 1: According to the Hidden Valley website, the owners made a

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Speaker 1: dressing with herbs, spices, and butter milk in the nineteen

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Speaker 1: fifties and the dressing caught on with their guests. The

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Speaker 1: dressing was sold as a dry mix that you combined

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Speaker 1: with butter milk and mayonnaise or sour cream. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Hidden Valley brand appears on several varieties of bottled ranch

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Speaker 1: dressing and supermarkets as well. It's also a very popular

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Speaker 1: dip for vegetables and chips. And then there's the ranch

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Speaker 1: flavor that you find in potato chips now that is

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Speaker 1: added to the chips in the form of a buttermilk

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Speaker 1: taste that we associate with ranch dressing. French dressing is

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Speaker 1: apparently an American invention. There are several different recipes for

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Speaker 1: French dressing, but most of them use ketchup oil, vinegar,

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Speaker 1: and paprika. A similar dressing is called Russian which often

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Speaker 1: has chili sauces, an ingredient. Italian dressing gets its name

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Speaker 1: from the Italian seasonings found in it oregano, basil, and garlic,

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Speaker 1: mixed with olive oil and wine vinegar. Blue cheese dressing

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Speaker 1: is sometimes referred to as Rocafort dressing, but rocofort is

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Speaker 1: a particular kind of blue cheese made of sheep's milk.

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Speaker 1: It comes from the town of Rocafort in southwestern France.

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Speaker 1: Regular blue cheese, a crumbly cheese that also has blue

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Speaker 1: veins of mold in It is made from cow's milk.

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Speaker 1: The cheese is mixed with creamy ingredients like mayonnaise, sour cream, butter, milk, milk,

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Speaker 1: or yogurt, and often with vinegar and some other spices.

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Speaker 1: Caesar dressing comes from Caesar salad, a popular item on

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Speaker 1: many restaurant menus. You'll hear two different stories about the

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Speaker 1: origin of the name for Caesar salad. One story is

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Speaker 1: that it's named for Julius Caesar. Another story is that

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Speaker 1: Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant to the United States, developed

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Speaker 1: the salad dressing in the nineteen twenties for his restaurant

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Speaker 1: in Tijuana, Mexico. Caesar Salad dressing is made of oil,

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Speaker 1: lemon juice, raw egg, parmesan, cheese, herbs, and spices. Some

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Speaker 1: recipes can chain an chovy filet's too. And then there's vinegarrette.

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Speaker 1: It's a generic name for a salad dressing that uses

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Speaker 1: oil and vinegar as its base, and then it adds

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Speaker 1: herbs and spices. There are many variations on the vinegrette theme,

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Speaker 1: and it's popular because it can be lowering calories and

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Speaker 1: fat than dressings that use mayonnaise. The name come was

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Speaker 1: from the French word for vinegar. For more on this

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