Mumbo sauce
Regional
- Meaning
- A sweet-tangy red takeout condiment poured over wings, fries, and fried rice in D.C.
- Type
- Regionalism
- Used in
- Washington, Washington, D.C., Maryland
What does “Mumbo sauce” mean
A sweet, slightly spicy, ketchup-orange sauce that is the defining condiment of Washington, D.C. carryout culture, especially at Chinese-American and chicken-wing spots. It is drizzled over fried chicken wings, french fries, jumbo shrimp, and fried rice, somewhere between barbecue sauce and sweet-and-sour. The name and recipe trace back to Argia B. Collins Sr.'s Chicago barbecue sauce from around 1950, but the D.C. variant became inseparable from the city's Black neighborhoods.
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