Query: Slang "Awesome sauce!"

[Lisa Galvin]

My thirty-year-old co-worker says it too, all the time.  
 
Perhaps it has more to do with the sound of the words together than the meaning of "sauce"? That is a totally uninformed opinion. :)
 
Lisa



                                                   


 

> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:50:55 -0600
> From: gcohen at MST.EDU
> Subject: Query: Slang "Awesome sauce!"
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> Poster: Gerald Cohen <gcohen at MST.EDU>
> Subject: Query: Slang "Awesome sauce!"
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> A faculty member in my department was exuberant about the achievements of
> several of her colleagues and wrote:
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> 'As my 16 year old would say: "AWESOME SAUCE!".'
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> I see "sauce" in urbandictionary.com but am still not sure how it came to
> represent something terrific. Would someone perhaps know?
> 
> Gerald Cohen
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