Somthing New...Whatever!!

Yesterday I went out to dinner with my mom, my dad and my aunt for my birthday. We were sitting in Ruby Tuesdays when my aunt said that she had this new thing at lunch today. We, of course, asked her what she had. She said she had...fry sauce! All three of us started laughing and proceeded to tell her that Utah is known for fry sauce, that fry sauce started here, that there was even a fry sauce Olympic pin for the 2002 Olympics. She said she had no idea! We then started naming off places that had good fry sauce - Crown Burger, Training Table, and Apollo Burger just to name a few.

Here is an excerpt from an article I found online from the Deseret News published June 6, 2007:

"The condiment pumps at Crown Burger rarely get a break. But it's not ketchup that's getting all the action, and customers barely give mustard a glance.

Instead, it's a pink-colored delicacy known as fry sauce that customer after customer squirts into paper cups. And it's a scene that repeats itself at thousands of restaurants and homes across Utah every day.

While most Americans top their fries with ketchup and tradition calls for mayonnaise or vinegar in Europe, for more than 50 years a blend of mayonnaise and ketchup has dominated in Utah.

The result is that fry sauce is as much a part of Utah's popular culture as skiing and the LDS Church. There are fry sauce souvenir T-shirts, a local band called Fry Sauce, even an Olympic fry-sauce pin that was wildly popular during the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. (Collectors note, the pin has been spotted on eBay for $ 45)"

So whenever you want a good laugh, try telling someone from Utah that fry sauce is something new!!