awesome sauce!

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/11/2014 09:08 AM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>There was a guy I knew in 1975 at U. of Michigan who was kind of an
>ultimate Angeleno. who said "Yo tengo a la sauce!" whenever he liked
>something a lot, and "Check this sauce out." (And sometimes, "Sauce
>this sauce out." meaning "Check it out."

Derived from  (or a simply a misheard) "Suss this sauce out"?

Joel

>His usual greeting to people was "What's your story?"
>
>By the time we finished one semester with him in the same house, we
>had a whole dictionary worth of "Ronisms".
>
>Paul Johnston
>On May 11, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > OK, there's like this girl on TV? And she's advertising the same bank that
> > offers either frog protection or fraud protection depending on which guy
> > you believe? So she's so happy with the promised service that she shouts,
> > "Awesome sauce!" and the girl on the other end of the phone says there's
> > only one other person on the planet who uses that expression!  So they
> > recognize each other.
> >
> > This ad has been running for months, exposing millions to the inanity that
> > is "awesome sauce!"
> >
> > UrbanDictionary gives two examples (2005, 2006) and a couple of odd clones
> > like "awesome sauce banana peel!"
> >
> > You can buy T-shirts too.
> >
> > Antonyms include "weak sauce"  and "lame sauce," acc. to Online Slang
> > Dictionary.
> >
> > The incredibly large-scale map provided by OSD (not OED) shows,
> > astonishingly, that "awesome sauce!" is used in only one place on earth,
> > near the town of Castlegar, British Columbia, which is north of Trail.
> >
> > JL
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