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How do you get a white trash girl to suck your d**k?

Dip it in ranch dressing.

Amen "omnomnom"! (I'm from Mich, too. Same area)

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Nothing is better than Ham & Pineapple pizza dipped in Ranch.

I hated pizza until I tried it with ranch. Any type of pizza goes great with ranch really except Mexican style, I usually dip that in sour cream.

^^Which means you're kind of a tool. Do you realize that the base wage for many servers is around $2.33 per hour?? What we take home in tips is what we earn. It's not like we're making 8 bucks an hour and your $10 is just an added bonus.

I was on food stamps when I went to school in 2000. When you're paying with student loans and can only have time to work a less-than-full-time job, it helps a lot! Plus, if you look at the statistics for many counties in the US, food stamp programs are almost always under-utilized.

I know kids who have done this. It's tough to get through college nowadays.

As a college student, I'm fortunate enough to have everything--tuition, apartment, food, etc--paid for (out of parent's pocket, sans student loans). I never worried about money the first two years of school, but even now, I've become a lot more frugal in my spending and careful with my credit cards (switching from Wegman's to Giant or Weis, organic to conventional, driving one or two times a week, and drinking cheaper alcohol). I have learned to budget, and pay attention to price tags. I think this is a very real wake up call--one I especially needed.

The money crunch truly does affect us all--even us, the student who believed we were impervious to the real world while in our bubbles of college.

Hey there EatersRegret, I live in the UK and if I can get Ranch dressing here in Wales, I'm jolly sure you can get in in London! My local Tesco has one by Paul Newman. Never had it before so can't compare it with any other makes...bet you can get to a nice deli that would sell it, too!

NO NO NO NOT ON PIZZA!

What should we get?" people inquire all the time.

"Help me out a little," I am forced to retort. Is this dinner, or a snack? What do you like? What do you want? We just met. I am no psychic.

Gosh, I can see how this can be annoying for you, but hang on a minute, if a waiter/waitress said that to me ie, copped an attitude, I would walk out.

The other day, I was in my local tapas bar and wondered if I should have a beer or wine, and the very helpful waiter suggested beer and also which beer to have that would go so well with what I had ordered. No attitude, just friendliness and a willingness to help me out. I left him a nice tip and recommended this place to all my friends. I would go there time and time again.

I just looked up ranch dressing and DID throw up in my mouth! Never heard of anyone dipping pizza crusts in any kind of dip, never mind what sounds like is probably some mass-produced, salt and fat-fest. You crazy Americans and your food mutilations. I need to cheer myself up by looking at a bird getting eaten by a spider.

OMG, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Never mind ranch alone, but the thought of ham, pineapple, and ranch ? My goodness, what a sacrilege to the almighty pizza.(NY style of course)
Well does any other really even exist?

I'm a Northern transplant here in the south (NC)
This is where I first discovered people using ranch as a condiment rather then the ones I had been brought up around such as Grated cheese or crushed red pepper .
C'mon, everyone knows if the pizza is good you don't need anything else besides napkins!
Come to think of it, some of the pizza I've tried to choke down here in the south might have actually tasted better with a jar of ranch for dipping!
Now it's starting to make sense.
I finally found a great pizza joint here without having to disgrace the almighty pizza pie!
And I can't stop laughing about Keith W 3:33 10/21/08 comment !

I would have loved to receive one of the listed care packages when I was in college. Or even better, one containing these items from all of the food groups...perfect for meals and snacks :)
-Heirloom Michigan Apples
-8 Grain 3 Seed Bread
-Vermont Shepherd Cheese
-Magic Brownies (chocolate)
-Vosges La Parisienne Hot Cocoa
-Zingerman's Marshmallow Gift Box

I have friends who do the verbal tipping thing and I hate it.

In general I hate eating with other people. One of my oldest friends is a "you don't tip on the sales tax" guy. I'll never understand that ... like tipping an extra 20% of 7% is going to kill you? That's less than 1.5% the cost of the meal! It makes me want to strangle him.