What Is Your Favorite Salad Dressing? This was a topic on a different Facebook group that I saw earlier today and it got me thinking.

Everyone has an opinion on Salad Dressing. I’m fairly alright with any of them, but I do have my favorite – Blue Cheese. I can’t tell you why. It’s seems like an acquired taste kind of thing.

Years ago I was all in on a tangy French (maybe it was truly a Russian Dressing) It was Pizza Huts signature dressing, then one day they did away with it. I never will understand that.

On a business trip to watch water valves and fire hydrants being made up in Elmira, NY sometime back in the 1980s, I was introduced to Blue Cheese Dressing. Not that I would have willingly chosen it, but circumstances caused me to have to try it.

Me and a dozen or so of my friends that happened to also be competitors boarded a cooperate jet in Austin to make the trip to New York. The trip was sponsored by one of the Utility Supply Houses and Kennedy Valve Company. It was a big plane and for some reason they had stocked it with plenty to drink and a few snacks. I didn’t drink at all back on those days, so by the time we got to Elmira the hunger pains had revealed themselves.

We checked into hotel rooms and freshened up a bit and then we were taken to a Famous Steakhouse in the city for an early dinner. There would be a big party later on that night in the lounge at the hotel.

Back to the Steakhouse. When we arrived, they set a salad down in front of each of us to graze on as they took our order and prepared our steaks. I was not impressed with the salad dressing that had been chosen for me. Well come to find out if you ate salad there, it only came one way.

I was really hungry, so I thought about it for a few seconds, then decided I loved Blue Cheese. Funny thing is, after that night some 40 years ago, I seldom choose anything except Blue Cheese. I’ll have to say that I don’t think I’ve ever experienced any other Blue Cheese Dressing as poignant, as rank, as strong as that was that night.

It was truly a wonderful dining experience. The steaks were cooked to perfection. I have always thought that if I ever get back to Elmira, NY I think I’ll try to look that place up. See what that Blue Cheese Dressing tastes like now.