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We intended to go to Festival of Slice but it was sold out. We walked up the street to Taco Cantina and ordered the wings. Somehow I didn't notice the John Young menu detail. The only person behind the counter cautioned it would take 10 or 15 minutes. We also had the oxtail gumbo. The wings, and gumbo, were excellent. It was annoying that "1 pound" of wings was only 8, even if they were big.

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I've always understood this sauce to have its origins in Washington, DC. Is this different than that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_sauce

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That’s correct. Mumbo sauce is a DC area thing. Young didn’t invent mumbo, he came up with his own version, a la Arthur Bryant’s barbecue sauce.

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Actually, Andrew, the first mumbo sauce may date back to Chicago and Agria B's

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I wouldn't be surprised. Then it would be more accurate to say mumbo blew up in DC and is counted as local flavor there.

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