Do you like mumbo sauce? Are you from here?

[Anonymous]

Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 35; grew up in DC (including graduating from a DCPS high school), have lived here my whole life except for four years away in college, and had never heard of it until I saw the hoopla around Bowser’s tweet.

Wow! I’ve only lived here for eight years, and I think I learned about it within a year or two.

I've lived here almost 30 years and never heard of it until this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

I think that's the case for most of the posters on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

I think that's the case for most of the posters on this thread.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Theyre discussing this on the Kojo Nnamdi show right now.

Interestingly, a guest just mentioned that her grandmother used to eat mambo sauce in DC in the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC born and raised and I love the flavor profile of mumbo sauce but I hate the high fructose corn syrup in the commercial varieties. So maybe I like artisanal mumbo sauce, which I feel is very DC.

Me exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

I think that's the case for most of the posters on this thread.

+1.

+2 Upper NWers need not reply

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

I think that's the case for most of the posters on this thread.

+1.

+2 Upper NWers need not reply

The question in the title of the thread is “are you from here” not “are you from a neighborhood where mumbo sauce is common.” You may not like it, but white people born in DC and raised in upper NW are DC “natives.” The fact that many of them have not heard of mumbo sauce doesn’t mean they aren’t natives; it means that mumbo sauce wasn’t common in the area of the city they grew up in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading about mumbo for the very first time in my life right here in this thread. Both my parents attended school here in DC (Dad, GU '68; Mom, Dunbarton College, '72) and I was born at Georgetown in '73. We have since lived in Arlington and McLean. I went away for college and grad school and have been back here since 1999. I am 45, married, and have two kids and still live in Fairfax County. Never heard of mumbo sauce until reading this thread. Do I live an easy life? Outside the parameters and bald facts lists here? No, I do not. But the fact that I have never heard of a condiment will render others to put me in one category or another.

The upbringing you describe is pretty removed from DC carry out culture (14th, 16th streets Mt pleasant anacostia.

I think that's the case for most of the posters on this thread.

+1.

+2 Upper NWers need not reply

Sorry, it’s our city, too. Move out to PG if you’ve got a problem with that.

[Anonymous]

According to Perry Como, “Papa likes Mambo.”

[Anonymous]

I swear by it!

Born and raised in DC. I went to college in NC not knowing that it was local fare. I must've gone to half a dozen carry-outs looking for it. Finally, I found one where the owner explained that she'd heard of it from relatives up here, but she didn't know how to make it. No trip home was complete without 4 wings w/fries. Mumbo sauce on the wings. "saltpepperketchup" on the fries.

[Anonymous]

I’ve lived here since the 90s and learned about it from take out joints we would frequent late at night after going out. I do like it a lot.