Last summer when I was in the dorm and talking to the other students about what to order from the carryout. I recall someone saying it doesn't matter what you get as long as you get mambo sauce with it. Then when I asked what is that a huge discussion started and the other student said you must not be from the area. The students from the area explained to us not from the area that we must try the sauce because of how good it is. Ever since then I associated the sauce with the DC and I tried the sauce and liked it so I see why its such a big deal.
When reading this article in the Washington Post and seeing how Arsha Jones had an incredible craving for the mambo sauce. The urge had to do with her being pregnant but also because she is from DC and was raised on the sauce. Mambo sauce is big in the DC among the black community and it goes back generations. White community doesn't relate to the sauce as much mostly because with less than 15 percent of the white population being born in the city they don't know about it. Where as 60 percent of the black population was born in the city they are introduced to the sauce as children. As Jones mention in the article she moved out of the city so she had to drive 30 minutes just to get the sauce she feared her children wouldn't get to enjoy it because they won't grow up in DC. That is a major concern in the city With gentrification and the black community moving out of the city. Will the heritage of the sauce be lost because the children in the city won't be raised around the sauce and will not know about it. The bigger issues is with gentrification what other taditions will the black community lose because they are being moved out of the city.
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