A Black man created ranch dressing โ and most people never knew.
Kenneth โSteveโ Henson, born in Nebraska in 1918, was a plumber who cooked for his crew in Alaska. One day he mixed buttermilk, mayo, herbs, and spicesโฆ and ranch was born.
In 1954, he and his wife bought land near Santa Barbara and named it Hidden Valley Ranch. Guests loved the dressing so much they begged to take jars home. By 1957, stores were selling his dry mix. Orders exploded. Factories followed.
In 1972, Clorox bought the recipe and the name for eight million dollars. Ranch went nationwide. By 1992, it was Americaโs #1 dressing.
But the man behind it? Nearly erased.
Every salad, every wing, every fry dipped in ranch โ thatโs his legacy. He mattered. He was the blueprint.
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Me watching a documentary about psychopaths and how they "prefer to stay at home, don't have many friends and can get very upset over a minor inconvenience"
The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:
- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter
If an Icelandic horse leaves Iceland, it can never return.
Seriously. It's a one-way ticket.
Thanks to a law passed by the Viking parliament in 982 AD, importing horses into Iceland is strictly illegal. Because they've been isolated for 1,000 years, they have zero immunity to common global horse diseases.
If a horse left, caught a virus, and came back, it could wipe out the entire island's population.