I sliced my hand open on a plastic protractor once, but I was a spectacularly clumsy kid. I still don't know how I did that.

As I mentioned in another comment, I had a July birthday and used to ask for school supplies. One of the reasons? I knew that was the only way I was getting a Trapper Keeper. My parents' school supply budget tended to extend only to those blue burlap covered looseleaf notebooks, but combined with my birthday…

I love them. I have always loved them. I have a July birthday, and school used to start in the middle of August. I used to ask for school supplies for my birthday so I could get what I wanted, not what was on sale, because I wanted the exact PERFECT stuff.

I left the South in 2000, and at that point, I really never saw the ranch/pizza thing. But I moved from there to the upper Midwest, and from 2000-2013 (when I left), I saw it EVERYWHERE. So no, it's not just a Southern thing. The Midwest LOOOOOVES its ranch dressing.

Maybe he'd ordered it previously—I know it was new, but a day or two before? Oh, hell, who am I kidding, he just dumped it in without tasting. I know better.

I actually like (non-bottled) Thousand Island, made with homemade mayo. My mom's had some chili sauce in it as well as ketchup, chopped sweet pickle (she didn't use relish, but her own pickles), and hardboiled egg. It was pretty good, though I really like oil-and-vinegar dressings better than creamy ones in general.

I was going to gag at jelly on the burger; then I remembered that grape jam on a good sausage biscuit is actually one of my favorite things that I never have now that I don't live in the southern US.

Let me guess, you worked in Athens? (Between the football thing, and the fact that Athens is really the only place where I ever saw the feta + fries thing...though I left in 2000, so it might have spread.)

I know people who order boxes of the packets of ranch dressing—like you get with fast food/takeout salads—online, so they can take it with them. At least it's not a bottle, I guess?

When I lived where I could get actual Mexican food in the supermarkets, I used to buy Tajin seasoning (doing the alt-code for the accent mark is not going well, sorry), which was basically salt, chile, and lime. It was fantastic on fruit, especially melon and strawberries.

You are so right. And, I mean, I have a definite love for dips/sauces/dressings/condiments of all kinds. Really high-quality homemade ranch dressing (hint: this does not involve a packet) is edible, but not something I would seek out. (I had an aunt who made pasta salad with her homemade ranch, and was also hurt if…

I don't know about "something fancier." Their coffee is pretty good, and cheaper than, say, Starbucks. I've been in a couple of McDo restaurants that have had a separate McCafe area (with the coffees and muffins and things), but for the most part, it seems more like "okay, latte and cappuccino are no longer 'fancy'…

IMO, it improved. It's still cheap crappy chain pizza, but the last time I had it in the US, it was better than buying the super-cheap Hy-Vee frozen pizza, and before their improvements, it was not.

As a serious answer: because you can make a little sausage be enough for a whole breakfast, that way. (You can use less sausage in a sausage-gravy-over-biscuits breakfast than you can in a sausage-and-biscuits breakfast, and still not be hungry. )

When my ex's nephews were living with us, they initially refused to eat anything that wasn't chicken nuggets or mac & cheese. The older one remained challenging, but once we realized the little one would eat anything—liver, sushi, cooked cabbage, it literally did not matter—if we let him dip it in ketchup, we just…

As someone who put herself through college doing the graveyard shift at a Denny's off I-75... that is nowhere near weird enough to have bothered me.

I like eating in-season tomatoes, and cucumber, and so forth, with no dressing. MAYBE a little salt and lemon juice. Probably not.

My dad does that—he doesn't like salad dressing, so he always orders his salad with no dressing. It sometimes confuses servers (especially in chain restaurants in the midwest, where the most common dressing order seems to be "a tanker truck full of ranch, please,") but none of them have ever seemed to have a problem…

In my 20s, I would still eat fried zucchini, that's how not-overloaded I was on them. (I eat zucchini now, but I was at least 30 before I wasn't horrified by the concept.)

Yeah, that's why I said "maybe." Some kids are okay with it, some aren't, but I'm pretty sure that knowing the destination of the animals helps some of those kids, anyway. I don't think I could be okay with it, but I also would make a terrible farmer/rancher for many, many reasons.