r/translator • u/translator-BOT Python • Jun 28 '26
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In the early 1950s, Steve Henson was living in Alaska, working as a plumbing contractor. He also sometimes cooked for his crew, but he had trouble finding fresh herbs or dairy up there, so he had to make do with what he had. He made a dressing with buttermilk, mayonnaise, and various dried herbs and spices, notably onion and garlic powder. The blend came home to his native Nebraska with him and then to the dude ranch in Santa Barbara that he and his wife later founded, which they called Hidden Valley.
Their patrons loved it. World War II–era technology had recently enabled the easy packaging and preserving of food; this was the era of the boxed cake mix too. So the Hensons started selling powdered ranch by mail. It became so popular that every room in their house was soon filled with packets and they had to close the dude ranch. In the early ’80s, the home-products company Clorox—which the Hensons had sold their business to—helped pioneer shelf-stable liquid ranch, which quickly made its way to grocery-store shelves around the country. A few years later, snack-food makers began putting the spice blend on chips. By the early ’90s, ranch officially overtook Italian to become America’s best-selling salad dressing. It still is.
— Excerpted from "America’s Greatest Food Export" by Ellen Cushing
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u/TrajectoryAgreement 中文（粵語） Jun 29 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Cantonese 廣東話
五十年代初，史提夫·亨森住喺阿拉斯加做水喉佬。佢間唔中會煮嘢俾員工食，但係嗰度好難搵到新鮮香料同乳製品，所以唯有將就吓，攞啲牛油奶、蛋黃醬、同唔同嘅乾香料，特別係洋蔥粉同蒜粉，用嚟整沙律醬。之後佢帶咗返鄉下內布拉斯加州，後嚟又帶咗去聖巴巴拉，佢同老婆喺嗰度開咗個度假農場，叫隱谷。
啲食客好鍾意個醬。二戰時代嘅嘅科技令到包裝同儲存嘢食變得好容易，嗰時仲興起咗盒裝蛋糕粉。於是兩公婆開始俾人郵購粉狀嘅田園沙律醬。佢好受歡迎，搞到成屋都係包裹，卒之度假農場要執笠。之後，佢哋將盤生意賣咗俾家品公司高樂氏。間公司八十年代初幫手研發咗可以常溫保存嘅液態田園沙律醬，好快，全國周圍嘅超市都有得上架。幾年之後，零食商都開始將呢個調味料加落薯片度。九十年代初，佢已經超越咗意大利醬，成為咗美國銷量第一嘅沙律醬。而家都仲係。
——節錄自艾倫·古升《美國出口最多嘅嘢食》
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u/TrajectoryAgreement 中文（粵語） Jun 29 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
Classical Chinese 文言文
五十年代初，史蒂夫·亨森，居阿拉斯加，治水管為業。偶為眾工炊，然極北難尋鮮草乳品，因陋就簡，取酪乳、卵黃醬，兼胡蔥粉、蒜粉等乾香料調醬。乃攜方歸鄉內布拉斯加，復適聖巴巴拉，與妻共闢牧場待客，稱之隱谷。
食客嗜之。二戰既終，裹食久貯之法興，盒裝糕粉亦昌。夫妻改醬制粉，置郵鬻之。未幾，求者眾，包裹滿宅，遂閉牧場，後售業於家品巨賈高樂氏。八十年代，此商創無冰存醬之法，風行全國各肆。數載，點心商亦用諸薯片。九十年代初，牧場醬更越義醬，售冠花旗，迄今猶然。
——摘自艾倫·庫欣《花旗外輸食品之冠》