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Storms wash salad dressing ingredients into basements
Storm water combined with sewage from a salad dressing plant overwhelmed the Columbus storm-sewer system and flooded at least 10 nearby homes. "It's creamy-ranch- dressing-looking crap," says resident Steven Maiken. (Columbus Dispatch)
July 2, 2008 | Permalink
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This story makes me glad I'm not a Ranch fanatic like most folks I know. Some of them dip everything they eat in Ranch! I bet these folks won't be using that oh-so-tasty dressing for awhile.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 9:46:19 AM
OMG I hope they get lettuce. Lots and lots of lettuce.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jul 2, 2008 9:47:02 AM
Sounds Yummy.
Posted by: Dick C. Normas | Jul 2, 2008 10:03:36 AM
Let's toss this around a bit. No salad dressing in the salad dressing place but plenty in the sewers and homes downstream. The City will find no fault with the plant, but tell home owner they need bigger sewer. The whole thing seems to sting.
Posted by: Jaxx | Jul 2, 2008 10:06:16 AM
Sounds like Blue Cheese dressing to me.
Posted by: Dada Supreme | Jul 2, 2008 10:28:22 AM
and to think, another city was worried about skinny dippers in their water supply.
Posted by: southernguy | Jul 2, 2008 10:31:48 AM
DEFINITELY A BACKFLOW PROBLEM
Posted by: | Jul 2, 2008 11:14:40 AM
Ahhh, bargain basement prices.
JIM, it still isn't working.
Posted by: A.V. | Jul 2, 2008 11:18:40 AM
I found the Hidden Valley!!!!
Posted by: seasicksquid | Jul 2, 2008 11:27:20 AM
Glad I like honey mustard dressing. Sounds like it's pretty nasty in the basements..
Posted by: R | Jul 2, 2008 11:46:23 AM
Reminds me of the Navy's galley in P'cola, FL. They had an awesome salad bar, with a side buffet trolley with three deep, rectangular vats of ranch dressing--with large soup ladles instead of spoons for serving. There was usually a small bottle of thousand island nearby, but it was almost always nearly new and also past its date.
However, I would like to suggest that flooding basements is taking the love of ranch dressing too far.
Posted by: Soo | Jul 2, 2008 11:46:24 AM
I'm still not sure how all that salad dressing ending up in the sewer system.
Posted by: cherie | Jul 2, 2008 12:30:12 PM
Could have been worse - it could have been a molasses flood.
Boston, 1919. Look it up and let your imagination run wild.
Posted by: KDP | Jul 2, 2008 1:19:03 PM
I saw a special on the Great Molasses Flood some years ago on the History channel. Quite interesting!
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 1:35:25 PM
it could've been even worse than molasses...it could've been a pig farm...
Posted by: cherie | Jul 2, 2008 1:43:50 PM
"Every once in a while you get a whiff and *ugh*."
Reminds me of a really rank fart that you can't get away from...it just lingers in the air, permeating everything for hours. (stinky ex)
Posted by: Anna | Jul 2, 2008 2:19:31 PM
Seriously, hours?? That's some potent raunch!!
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 2:27:46 PM
Jaxx that is one of two types of salads that shouldn't be TOSSED!!! LOL
Posted by: RANdom | Jul 2, 2008 2:28:23 PM
No, $hit!
My daughter was in bed on 'his side' & asked if this is the side Daddy slept on. I said yes it was & asked, why? Response was: "Because it smells like his farts!"
Kids say the Darndest things!
Posted by: Anna | Jul 2, 2008 2:34:00 PM
Blah!! That's terrible when you have to Fabreeze the bed!!
Posted by: Reno | Jul 2, 2008 2:38:42 PM
Jaxx that is one of two types of salads that shouldn't be TOSSED!!! LOL
Posted by: RANdom | Jul 2, 2008 2:38:56 PM
Yes! But it was never ending,& too much maintenance, so I got rid of the 'cause'. he-he-he!
Now we can breathe much better! Ah-Ha!
Posted by: Anna | Jul 2, 2008 2:42:21 PM
LOL @ Anna!
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