Today, I’m going to be talking about why ranch is the best condiment.
It’s not.
Now, you might be thinking, “Hey Aaron, why would you make the title and picture what they are if you’re just going to say the opposite in your article?” To answer that, I’m going to just use one word: subjectivity.
A lot of people seem to forget what that word means. People commonly take whatever they think and state that as a matter of fact. This is seen a lot in fan reviews of movies, where people think that a movie franchise is better than others, and then pulling out the word “objectively” to make their opinion seem like a fact while having no basis in statistics or evidence. In Benjamin Kerstein’s review of the movie “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” he opens with, “‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ is a bad movie. It is not a bad Star Wars movie, but objectively speaking, as a film, it’s a bad movie.”
A lot of the time in real life, something that is the “best” or “worst” option can vary completely from person to person. To show this in action, I will state my opinion on a very pressing issue: I love Hawaiian pizza with ranch. Some readers are now most likely cringing at me for breaking not one but two pizza norms, but I have achieved my point: What I find good and what others find good is different.
Life is not a list of numbers. It’s not fair to look at ketchup and say it is objectively the best condiment because it is the most versatile, when there may be condiments that others like to put on more foods than ketchup. (Don’t ask me what I’ve put ranch on.)
Now, I have not been using any hard evidence in this article. That means, like most reviews, this is a subjective opinion piece. Feel free to disagree with me. If you think there is an objectively best condiment, tell me, and I’ll allow you to have your opinion up until the point you call it objective. Because as long as it is an opinion, everyone can disagree.