Add some coarse grain Dijon mustard and a dab of horseradish to turn it into a sort of remoulade sauce. I don’t have proportions. Just add a little of each and taste until you get it where you want it. Use with boiled shrimp or Buffalo wings.

Just about any deli meat with whatever and thousand island dressing is an excellent sammich. Cheese burgers with thousand island dressing instead of plain ketchup.

I like it as a pasta salad dressing, and also with cold seafood in sandwiches.

ETA Oops, I see you figured it out yourself. Glad you did--there's no need ever to buy it if you keep basic staples on hand and it's much better tasting, too.

I was going to say turn it into remoulade too, but remoulade doesn't have pickles.

ritaweed - pease share your concoction. I love TI dressing on drop dead ripe red garden tomato wedges with a scoop cottage cheese;

I just mixed up mayo, ketchup, a little mustard, finely diced sweet pickles, sweet onion, pickled roasted sweet red peppers, white vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. So simple yet so much better than store-bought. The basic recipe was online but I added the roasted peppers.

I use thousand island on an avocado & grapefruit salad & also on hard boiled eggs for a quick breakfast

I also use it for "pizza sauce" when making my Big Mac pizza, very yummy!

I never eat regular thousand island dressing because I do not like sweet pickles, and so I make a version with dill or sour pickles, and I find that dressing to be more versatile. Also, I use chili sauce (without tomato) instead of ketchup. It ends up being somewhat similar to Russian dressing, which is similar to what I make for Crab Louis.