I was just about to say that Fage nonfat is really thick and creamy and IMO makes a good sour cream substitute. I would think that some ranch dressing powder mixed in wouldn't be that bad for you.

You can make ranch dressing with mayonnaise and buttermilk. You don't really need the sour cream.

I love the ranch dressing powdered mix exactly because you can mix it with whatever -- yogurt, sour cream, mayo, etc. I usually use a mix of those + some milk/cream, depending on what I want to use it for.

I have never been so grateful for my aversion to sour cream as when reading that article.

I do think that the Japanese fugu chefs have an edge on Outback in terms of worst food for you, however, as Aussie cheese fries are unlikely to kill you before you can get up from the table.

Well, a bad fugu chef anyway.

Low fat food is even more evil than Ranch!

For some reason I can't change my mind on that opinion. I mean, if you weren't going somewhere fatty in the first place, okay. But if you are trying to replicate a fatty taste I start to balk. Even when it's done well.

I'm a blue cheese dressing fan. Nothing more disgusting than the low fat varieties. Why do they think adding sweet is a good plan? Blue cheese dressing should never be sweet.

eta: Welcome darlini!

With fugu, the risk of death is part of the thrill. Also, it doesn't involve sweet salad dressing, which is an abomination before the lord no matter what flavor they call it.

With fugu, the risk of death is part of the thrill

Bourdain was saying that some people ask the chef to leave a tiny bit of the poison in the fish so that they can feel the numbness.

Hey, people take a little bit of something that would kill you in quantity for fun all the time.

Edit: too many clauses in there. People often take stuff for fun that would kill you in large quantities.

I have a rule about substances that do not belong together. I am still formulating this rule, but part of it says that CHEESE and SALAD DRESSING never, ever coincide in the same thing.

(You may grate cheese over your salad, and then put some salad dressing on, but that's not the same thing. Because I said so.)

Also, sour cream (which is practically cheese) and mayo (which is gross) should never go into the same thing either. That is like putting mayo on your mayo! How much mayo can one person need ?

I don't drink heavy cream right out of the carton, either. Isn't that basically what we're talking about, in terms of semi-liquid animal fats?