mimi: buffalo ranch sauce

let's be honest, the inclusion or lack of sauce can make or break any, no ANY, meal. french fries always need sauce; ketchup, mustard, bbq, etc. if you think otherwise, then please stop reading now as you are not the type of person that i wish to associate with, including through my blog. back to the sauce though, the type of sauce you use can also tell a lot about the kind of person you are. for instance, buffalo wings, are you a blue cheese or a ranch or do you live dangerously.....lack of sauce!! oh, that hurts my tongue even just to think about.

now, i have searched the sauce world up and down...you might call me a connoisseur of sorts. i've had your spicy mustards, your soys, your multitude of salad dressings (yes, salad dressings are classified as sauces and if you must discuss, then by all means comment below.....this is just a ruse to get you to comment). that last sentence wasn't really a sentence, but i didnt know where it was going so i just stuck a period on the end. i've even had heinz 57, which is also a discussion for another time since it is a weird mixture of bbq and ketchup and im not quite that its existence should continue. my go to sauce though is hot sauce....really any variety will do, but if i had to choose, well, cholula would be the best. anybody who knows and understands sauce would agree.

the point of this blog...about three years ago i found the god of all sauces. basically, this sauce is a reason to stop using other sauces altogether, except maybe salad dressings. it is perfect with almost any kind of food that might indeed call for a sauce. this magical sauce of all sauces is wendy's buffalo ranch sauce. it is pure joy. it is the perfect mixture of hot buffalo and mild ranch. it is slightly bizarre, yet quite amazing. really, it is just the perfect sauce...hands down, barnone, no ifs ands or buts about it. no ors about it either. but i digress.

still the main point of this blog....wendys' in multiple states do not supply this sauce anymore. tennessee and new jersey are both included on this list of states, which is unfortunate, since i spend most of my time in them. at first, i thought that maybe the wendys in nashville that i always went to just happened to be continuously out since others must have been experiencing the same love affair which i was. one day i asked though, and sadness of all sadnesses they replied that they didn't carry the sauce anymore, nor did any other wendy's in the area. i shortly learned that the same went for jers. one time about six months after this realization, i found the sauce in georgia. it was a glorious day...filled with many fries and lots of sauce. i did not have the foresight to buy more than necessary though, and upon my return to nashville, i was once again left sauceless. even worse, the next time i was in georgia, the wendy's there did not have the sauce either!

for the past year, i have thought all hope was lost. i figured that i would never taste my utopian sauce again. sadness did abound and it was not good. i went back to the old sauces, but they were no longer goodies. they were just lacking when compared with the buffalo ranch. i considered this to be the end of my sauce days. the end of a long and cultivated relationship....but then ali (yes the one and only) saved me! she found a wendys in kentucky which carried the sauce, bought ten, and brought them to me! now i will have the sauce for the next two weeks and life could not be looking any better. also she brought me a book full of sauce recipes so i will never be sauceless again. and who knows, i may even create my own buffalo ranch, which i promise to never discontinue.

that's all,
mimi.

post script: i am sincerely sorry in my complete lack of comma sensibility. it is horrible, but you must deal.