I admit to being a salad dressing snob, preferring the very premium brands. Eh? You’re saying you don’t believe BurgerDogBoy eats salad? Well, sure, on occasion.
One of the groceries I frequent isn’t very ‘brand loyal” meaning from time to time, you’ll see different manufacturer’s products than you are used to. This week, in the refrigerated dressing section, they had Marie’s Chunky Blue Cheese, so i picked up a jar. It’s very creamy with great blue cheese flavor, but I found the label boast of “chunky” a bit amiss. I stirred and fished, but any bulk pieces of cheese could be described as “bits” not “chunks” and not so plentiful. Marie’s is owned by Ventura foods, which is a joint venture of CHS, a diversified cooperative ag /energy company with 77,000 member/owners, based in suburban St. Paul, MN, and Mitsui, a major Japanese industrialist.
Marie’s is a good alternate dressing for me when I am leaning towards “creamy,” but as for chunky blue, I’ll stick with Litehouse brand’s Big Bleu, with plenty of good sized chunks of cheese in the dressing.
Ingredients: SOYBEAN OIL, CULTURED NONFAT BUTTERMILK, BLUE CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), SOUR CREAM (CULTURED NONFAT MILK, CREAM), WHOLE EGG, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SPICE, GARLIC*, SALT, MUSTARD BRAN, XANTHAN GUM. *DEHYDRATED Contains: MILK, EGG
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