As someone living in the Midwest, the region trains you to be on alert for certain troubling phenomena: the right conditions for a tornado, impending winter weather and the potential for a shortage of ranch dressing (both at the dinner table and on a more national level, too).
We’re past tornado season and not yet quite eying down freezing fronts this year, which is maybe why I paid a bit more attention than usual to rumors of a Hidden Valley Ranch dressing shortage on the corners of the particular internet that care about such things.
