• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The best I’ve had has basically always been a recipe made in-house at a restaurant. Maybe there are some foodservice versions sold to restaurants that are good but with recipes that never make it onto grocery store shelves. I know Sysco has or had a decent Caesar dressing and I’ve never found one in grocery stores that was as good, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case with other dressings.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah i know what you mean. I find the foodservice versions at restaurants pretty palatable and have often wondered why tf i can’t buy it in a grocery store. I think the difference between grocery store versions and everything else isn’t so much recipe as it is the ungodly amounts of preservatives needed to make dairy shelf stable means every store bought brand is inevitably too thick and has a nasty chemical aftertaste.

      Once or twice I’ve had passable storebought ranch if it’s one that’s sold already refrigerated.