Query: Slang "Awesome sauce!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds like the punchline of a TV commercial for some regional product.

Just a SWAG.

JL

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Lisa Galvin <lisagal23 at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> My thirty-year-old co-worker says it too=2C all the time. =20
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> Perhaps it has more to do with the sound of the words together than the
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> > A faculty member in my department was exuberant about the achievements of
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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
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