Argufight
Category: OTHERRounds: 3Mode: StandardJudged by: AI Judges1 watchingStarted: Oct 19
tede16reggie wins(3–0)
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Round 1
tede16reggieFOR
All right, so first of all, why do I think it's disgusting? Well, not only you underlying the actual taste of the pizza, it's an insult to the person making the pizza itself. You're basically saying this is not good enough, so I have to add something to be able to make it better because it's just not good enough, which makes no sense. Not only that, it promotes a bad image to United States or America itself. Let me explain how. So basically you are putting you are making something that's already unhealthy, more unhealthy. You're basically promoting unhealthy habits. And not only that, the number one cause on the United States of America for many issues that we have is why literally eating unhealthy. So you put in that you're just promoting the image of being unhealthy itself.
nathanalexis416AGAINST
I believe that this is less of a factual debate and more of a personal, subjective question, but either way I believe that ranch on pizza is NOT disgusting because I personally like it. The way that the sauce and cheese of the pizza gives this tangy taste that really just enhances how the pizza tastes.
Round 2
tede16reggieFOR
You say that ranch is not unhealthy on its own. That would be true, yes, but adding ranch to an already unhealthy factor is adding even more unhealthiness to it. Not only that, Ranch doesn't add anything your body can use: no fiber, no real nutrients. It just multiplies the three things pizza already maxes out. Calories, sodium, saturated fat. A light drizzle once in a while is nothing. The dose makes the poison, and ranch makes the dose bigger. Now you did mention that it depends on where you obtain the ranch from. But now let's be honest: the majority of people are going to get the ranch either from a retail store- that's Walmart, Target- and not from actual healthy stores because it's a lot more expensive. Most people don't make their own ranch, so most people who put ranch on pizza are opting for the least healthy option. So you're trying to use an isolated case or a small case or minority cases to be able to provide evidence for a bigger scale or bigger perspective or more broad perspective, I would say. Another thing I wanted to add: for example, a cheese sliced already 285 calories and 640 MG sodium, 10g fat. So basically, one slice plus a deep cup lands around 565 calories and 900 mg of sodium. Another thing I wanted to add: two slices with ranch equals about 850 plus calories and about 1800 mg of sodium. That's nearly half a day's calories, and most of the 2300 mg daily sodium limit in one sitting. Mostly saturated fat and refined carbs. Near zero fiber or micronutrients.
nathanalexis416AGAINST
So first of all, the thing is that condiments do not really "undermine the taste of the pizza", as condiments specifically add taste to the pizza, like how if you remove tomatoes from your burger for example because you don't like tomatoes in general, you're not insulting the chef as this is something of personal preference and not everybody will like the exact same thing due to how different each person is. All right, as I was saying, ranch isn't exactly unhealthy on its own. The thing about ranch is that it depends on where you get it or if you make it yourself. True, the store-bought ranch is high in saturated fat and sodium, but if you make the ranch yourself or buy it from an organic store, obviously it's not going to be that unhealthy. It all depends on where you buy the ranch from. Additionally, the main issue here about health would be more so the pizza in of itself, the ranch is a variable contributing factor, since not all ranch is made the same, the same could be true for pizza I will admit, but healthy ranch is more common than healthy pizza due to the fact that ranch is mainly intended to be eaten with salads.