Chicago's Delicious Mild Sauce Tradition || Food/Groups
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- Chicago is a city that adores its food icons. From pizza, to Italian beef, to hot dogs "dragged through the garden", the Windy City is an international beacon of intensely lionized foodstuffs. But there's one Chicago food tradition that flies so under-the-radar, even many Chicago residents hadn't heard of it before Chicago-born comedian Hannibal Buress penned a love letter to it in Chicago Magazine in February 2017. "If you live on the South Side or West Side and you go to a restaurant that has bulletproof glass, they probably have mild sauce", he wrote. "It should have Sriracha levels of fame."
So we went to Chicago to find out why it doesn't. Along the way, we fell in with a who's-who of the Chicago sauce cognoscenti, from rap blogger-turned-chef Cliff Skighwalker and entertainer Larry Legend, to award-winning poet Nate Marshall, to the crew of an entire damn podcast named for the iconic, under-appreciated condiment. The question was a two-parter, but simple: what is mild sauce, and why doesn't it get the credit Buress (and countless Chicagoans) believe it deserves? Watch the episode above for an answer.
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Guests
The Mild Sauce Crew
Cliff Skighwalker
Larry Legend
Nate Marshall
Charmaine Rickette
Joe Freshgoods
Locations
The Mild Sauce Podcast studio: itunes.apple.c...
Harold’s Chicken
Uncle Remus: uncleremususa.com/
Special Thanks
Cliff Skighwalker: skighwalker
Joe Freshgoods: www.fattigerwor...
Matt Lynch: thrillist.com/authors/matt-lynch
Music
Away
0:04
A Bass Named Desire by Nathan Rightnour and Justin Thompson
1:18
Forest by Shane Carey, Stevie Dutch and Alista Marq
2:50
Big City by Bamboo Jeans
4:43
Drive Dead Slow by Kostas Hiras, Christoforos Sarvanidis and Alexios Triantafyllidis
7:40
Ending Credits by North House (soundcloud.com/northhouse)
9:22
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When I left Chicago I miss mild sauce and pizza puffs soooooo much
Yes!! I haven't had good pizza or a puff since I left!! I ordered Harolds sauce online. I'm going home this fall bringing my husband eating tour..LOL
Man I feel you 😭
Same bru... I miss chicago
I hear you. I moved away also and nothing like Chicago food.
me too
*_Ghetto Blessing_* - That is my new favorite phrase. Love it.
Order twelve, get 13 = baker's dozen. Order six, get seven = *_ghetto blessing!_*
That or Big Ralph in the back hooking you up lol.
Ghetto Blessing aka "Seb'm"
6 wings, salt and pepper, mild sauce, with extra mild on the side. I could go for this right now.
Or gizzards salt and pepper with mild sauce. That'd be good too. 😊
Gizzards with mild sauce is the best!
Shit I dip my pizza puff in mild sauce 🤣🤣🤣
As a black man I am glad to hear anytime someone shows pride in the black community. Especially when it comes to owning your own business and showing that you can be a success. It can not be all about well we can not do anything other than sell drugs, rap, or complain about life. However there is one point that I would like to make and that is with the poet who compared McDonald's with Harold's. You can not make that apples to apples comparison so lightly for a lot of reasons. McDonald's was started by two brothers with a focus on quality, speed and great service. It had nothing to do with race or taking anything from anyone else. The business changed with Ray Kroc. He created this have to be the best attitude that ran so many mom and pop places out of business (think Walmart). He forced the McDonald's brothers into selling him the business and founded the McDonald's corporation. He then bought up cheap land to expand the business. Franchisees often paid all the cost to run the business and get it open with McDonald's collecting huge fees in the process. Harold's from what I can tell was about serving the community were he lived the food they wanted. We can not speak to the vision the founder had for his business nor why he did not try to build it beyond where it is now. Some people focus on one thing but, they do that one thing so well it allows them to be successful. The question I have is how do you define success? Is it a ton of locations, millions of dollars, and stories in the paper? Or is it building something that continues after you pass on? Does it have a legacy of quality and supporting the people who you serve? Lets not forget that for any restaurant to make it past one year is really uncommon so the fact that Harold's is still around says something. On the same level as McDonald's? No, of course not but maybe that is a good thing looking at what it took to get there. That to me makes the story of Harold's shine that much brighter.
it's crazy that i grew up on the north shore and yet the chicago experience i am familiar with is so different from the south side or west side, this city is so segregated it's insane
Because you ain’t from the hood boy. You can’t just walk in our neighborhoods like you’re a tourist.
The police I’ll get you before anyone from the neighborhood does. They’ll assume you’re here to buy drugs
@@TonyThePodBoss I don’t think Ken up there is disagreeing with you at all. I think he’s even conveying the same sentiment.
Yep
*I'm from Texas, but was in the Navy, I been around the world so when it came to fried chicken, i was like i know good yard bird, but when i was in Chitown and tried Harold with the mild sauce I'm like i been missing out my whole life lol!*
Lol nice I took some of
My guys down their when we got out of A school being I was from the city
I'm live in Texas in the DFW area, there are a lot of imitators, but none came close than original. But I found a group that actually sells it a third party thru restaurants
I miss Chicago especially the food.
Three city's big on "Mild Sauce" - Chicago, Cleveland, and Washington D.C. - but D.C. calls their sauce "Mumbo Sauce"
ddotcarter06 is does Mumbo sauce taste the same ?
th-cam.com/video/_44jTTbD8Yo/w-d-xo.html
DC order their Mumbo sauce from Chicago.
No mumbo is sweet. Mild is spicy. Its 2 different sauces
@@CreativeSTS Chicago mild sauce is also sweet.
I really like the way you do your videos. It's the right mix of local culture and history, and of course food. Well done!
Thanks Antonio! Glad you dig the episodes. The whole team works really hard on 'em.
This channel deserves so many more subs than it has. Your work is always absolute quality. It's obvious so much love and effort has been put in to each video. Props my dude. I hope your channel breaks out big soon!
Hey, thanks! We appreciate it. Glad you're enjoying the videos.
As someone whose family is from northeast chicago and the suburbs, this was a really interesting look at something I knew nothing about considering how many times I have been to Chicago. Next time I visit my family, I really want to try it.
Yessss, let us know if you try it!
Gentrification!
I have been to chicago so many times that every time I go I try to have at least one new experience, but I could see how it would seem that I missed the point of the video.
JUST GOTTA BE OPEN MINDED AND DONT JUDGE.....REALITY IS MOST DONT KNOW BOUT THIS SAUCE BCUZ THE MAJORITY OF PLACES THAT SERVE IT ARE IN THE "GHETTO" AND EITHER MOST ARE TOO AFRAID TO VENTURE THERE OR ARE TOO CLOSE MINDED TO GET PAST THE LACK OF UPKEPT TIDINESS...THERES NO SHOW, NOBODY IS TRYING TO IMPRESS, YOU GET YOUR FOOD RECEIVE MORE THEN WHAT YOU PAY FOR AND MOVE ON....
Zoe Lawrence same!!
This is probably one of the best series on TH-cam
Wow, thanks! The whole crew works really hard on it, glad you're enjoying.
My lord, that sauce looks magnificent!
Infinite Athletics it's fun
"Magnificent" hardly does it justice, honestly. It's a revelation.
LOL! What? What makes it "look magnificent"? I t looks like any old bbq sauce. Whether it tastes great or not is another thing but to praise it's look? Especially off tiny clips from a YT video.
Trust me. It's trash. It tastes like Open Pit BBQ Sauce.
@@herbcruz4697 what trash restaurant are you going to? Mild sauce taste nothing like BBQ sauce
The word thrillist fits you guys really well.. fresh contents, relax, no obnoxious presenters like other channels
Keep it up... im your new sub 👍👍👍
Hey, thanks! Welcome to the channel.
although i’m from chicago i went to an atlanta harold’s and it was soo classy but they was sooooo stingy with the mild sauce 😭.
I went to a Harold's outside of Chicago, ONCE, it was in Southern Illinois. In the same damn state and it was trash.
Ikr th ey mild sauce in Atlanta wasnt it at all
Wel kick mo money down n u get mo sauce!
RK831 how about just eat harolds in chicago .. where it was originated
Amber Boxley ain’t nobody getting shot up in Chicago for some chicken girl gone
Pizza Puffs are a Chicago thing too!
Juwan Davis nobody cares
Thank you for respectfully showcasing our city unlike other obnoxious channels
I miss Chicago so much. I still have my ventra card
So mild sauce and mumbo sauce are clearly not the same
Omg I miss Harold's... 1/4 white with mild sauce... Great spot 49th& Ashland 💓
Back of the Yards!!
No one can understand how excited I got when I realized they're sitting at the Oak Forrest Harolds. That's were I first got to taste that mild sauce
Madison n Central 💯💯
fuck its so refreshing to find a channel that doesnt have an obnoxious host.
They forgot to mention that there's literally a Harrods on every corner of every street. You can't just go to any Harold's I promise you that 👀
Kumi - the one on 87th the best some say 103rd
Carl Myvett don’t sleep on the one on Wabash downtown 🔥🔥🔥
Hell nah... That would be the first mild sauce mistake! All Harold's ain't created equal!
@@zacharyhuff3043 I never ate at that one... And my college was on Wabash! Guess it's just a stigma...
Only on the southside . not the west side
I get requests for this every time I visit home from my East Coast friends. I've brought Harold's Half White back for friends in my luggage the last three times I went home. Well done.
I gotta stop watching Thrillist videos before I have lunch, I always end up craving whatever is in the video.
Same.
This will be my reason to sub. Great work about our city history. Thank you.
These videos are quality, y'all deserve more views!
Thank you! We think so, too.
I moved from Chicago to Austin 20 years ago. There's soul food here but ain't nothing like that mild sauce from back home.
Describe mild sauce
Mild sauce is 1 million times better than DC's "mumbo sauce". #MildSauceIsKing
Naw holmes you havent had it at da right spot!! Best believe dc been on da mumbo sauce bruh
No dc always compares to chi
@@d.cpro3751 No mild sauce is better
They both good. But I prefer Mumbo
Damn grandma stop sticking your feet in the mild sauce
Pete &Pete w
This is one of the best videos I ever watched. . .
Great video I can go for a gizzard wing combo fried hard with mild sauce on the fries
I love Chicago and mild sauce so much lol!
Ain't nobody getting burnt by ketchup, brown sugar and Frank's... Settle down poet man.
937dandaman thats what I thought. Typical black guy to make everything a racist thing. Lol
Juan Lopez STFU clown.
Dude, keep your negativity south of I-80. 😏
HELL0NESSA who’s even talking to you?
HELL0NESSA mind your own business if you have any
Mambo sauce has pineapple juice and white vinegar.... Mild sauce has bbq on top plus the brown sugar (maybe honey too) and more ground seasonings than Mambo sauce. That's what I can tell from taste
With the Mistic YES!!!!!!
We finally got a Harold’s up in Evanston for us north suburb folk. Nothing beats going to a Harold’s down in the South Suburbs though. Everyone is friendly down there- even the customers.
You have really upped your game. While I would prefer NYC centric programming, I walk away so much happier with this amazing content! Thanks
Harold’s is mostly in Chicago, and originally from Chicago, but there are a couple of locations in other cities.
I never thought about this because growing in Chicago, you just ate the sauce lol
but if you're from the West side and never ate at Coleman's bar b que something is wrong with you lol
Yaaasss! Coleman's and Hillary & Cooks in Maywood! 🙌🏾 😋
I just spoke of my beloved Coleman's in my comment, so I know that you know good wings with mild sauce that's different from Harolds or Uncle Remus.Grew up off those wings,rib tips,rib sandwich and Chopped steak 😁
@@she3750 I've been there, I haven't been there in so long, I miss it.
@Fabulos1 Hillary & Cooks has been closed down for some time now, but it was for sure one of my go-to's!! 🔥🔥🔥 I live in HTX now, so I miss Chicago food period. I always go back home on an empty stomach cause I know I'm gonna eat good my entire visit! Lol (HTX has good food too, so I don't complain ☺️)
I like this host. His ability to seem sincere while laughing at really unfunny jokes is astounding and admirable.
This video got kind of pretentious with the poet. Like I clicked on a video about chicken bruh.
going to the corner store (with no name) to get me a hot pocket and french fries with mild sauce and lemon pepper
Another killer video. Love this channel.
Chicago has mild sauce and Washington DC has mambo sauce. Either way you got to have the sauce on them wingz!!! 😜
As a H Town native with family ties to the Chi. Remus is my go to spot when it come to Mild Sauce.. And honestly I like Joe’s more than Harolds .. lol But Chicago food period.. Lawd🤦🏿♂️
Why the hell would you use a perfectly good pool table as a regular table for a podcast setup? You're gonna ruin the felt on top.
sugreev2001 they probably don't even play pool and use it for decoration and a makeshift poker table
Felt cancels noise
This was very well done salute💯
No one mentioned sharks or JJ. Failed. Or Captain hooks
Those are not black owned and are not as old/iconic as Harold's
hooks is absolute trash
within a year, thrillist is gonna cover enough "city specialty's" that theres gonna be a thrillist road trip that hits every US state
You might be onto something here...
The sauce taste magnificent too!
Hell yeah love mild sauce especially westside chi put it on wings and fries..
Smasssshing a 3 pc dark with some mild sauce, side of fries, and some bread. Hot damn I’m glad to be from Illinois.
Well fortunately I do live on the west side, we got some great chicken spots and our mild sauces is great too!
Kinda cringed a little when the dude went ''SAVAGE''
Same
A chicago native... left in 1993 tasted mild sauce before i left from the local chicken shacks... as i ventured the chicago area with my new driver's license. But other duties called 20 years went by and I was constantly bamboozled, hooters let me get that mild sauce, oops thats not what I thought it was gonna be. New Jersey, let me get 6 wings fried hard with mild sauce, the waitress would look at me crazy, San Diego, Connecticut, Florida the same result. It wasn't until I reached a small city in the heart of the SOUTH. Where I could say 6 fried hard with mild sauce on everything people would understand what I was saying. Atl., has stepped up to be the carrier of the torch and pass the mild sauce tradition on to others, there is currently 4+ Harold's franchise restaurants here Black owned. And the owner is doing her best to spread the Chicago love for MILD SAUCE
I visited Chicago for the first time in October 2017, and made the trek to Harold's with a local friend of mine. The mild sauce was GLORIOUS! If I could only get it in NYC.
Right? We feel the same.
U can order online I believe. I'm from the chi born and raise there. But I live in lv now
Yes!! Thank you for this! Mild sauce is one of the most amazing sauces ever. I did feel some kinda way about all of the Uncle Remus shots. #westside
That Harold's shirt is sick!
6 piece salt & pepper mild sauce. Best Harold’s in the city is the one next to Kimberly next to the university of Chicago.
Let's make it happen Chicago vs DC let's make a mild sauce battle.
With all the wings you can eat; who's with me? 312-202
I know one thing though, y'all better do something about that Harold's that's on 612 S Wabash ave LOL
It's crazy, I just poured Captain Curt's Boss Sauce...on my chicken and fries, it tastes like I'm back on 83rd and Cottage Grove! Anybody from the South Side of Chicago knows, one end of the block had Curt's...across the street, at the other end was Leon's! Can't go wrong, I grew up on both and they both always showed me love! ✊🏻👊🏻✌🏻
@Maya Scott YUP... Dat Donut!
If I told u our mild sause had crack in ...U PROBABLY BE LIKE I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP...😂😂😂
Moving to nyc year's ago that's 1 thing I miss, mild sauce. Love Chicago
Wow i loved the deep poet talk!!! yall doing the right foods with the right messages keep it up!!
ya cause saying white people stereotypically can't take spice and will get burned from a brown sugar ketchup sauce is SUPER deep
Craving pizza puffs drenched in mild sauce. I miss home right now.
My only complaint about this video is that it seems like they didn't reach out to anyone in the Harold's family/company for an interview.
I love Harolds 🙏🏽 I get the 4 wing dinner but I get the hot sauce always but it’s fireeee 🔥 ❤️
This channel is so great, I wonder what you guys could do in Toronto.
Binging with babish needs to help bring this to us who don't live in chicago
My mouth is watering..
I had to try it bc everyone said Mumbo sauce is just a copy of
Mild sauce. I think they are way different but they’re both good
This channel is so dope. Keep it up
My boy joeeeeee out here!!!!!
Awesome video
Thanks!
Mild sause here in Canada is Frank's readhot with honey and any bbq sause pretty much
Colmans 2 on Chicago Ave
Sony sub
I was about to call bullshit on this video...Looked like some people from hyde park or the north shore...But then I saw them drinking Mistics and I knew right then and there that these people are the real deal. Great video I love mild sauce.
There's a Harold's Chicken Shack in Vegas now... Lol
I bet it don't taste like the real thing.
@@missdee212 I haven't tried it myself, But I have some Chicago born and raised friends that live in Vegas now and they say it's good.
wonder if mild sauce inspired korean fried chicken sauce...
Real ones know about Mild Sauce! I’m from Hammond, Indiana. Chicken, fish, shrimp, or whatever!! We put it on everything! ✊🏾
Ahh this is Chi Towns version of D.Cs famous mumbo sauce. I used to live there and when I moved about an hour down to Va and found out they didn't have it at my local takeout spot...a piece of me died.
Home of the Hoagy got the best mild sauce. Hands down
Harold’s is NOT what it use to be like in the 90s. I’ve recently tried many locations, but I’ll keep my money...but that mild sauce 👌🏾
How was it back then?
You going to the wrong ones
THEY BRINGING ONE TO LA!!!
First time. Any time I go to Illinois I go to Harold’s best fucking experience ever I crave mild sauce and Harold’s all the time now
The mild sauces from Harold's and Uncle Remus have been out of stock for at least a year. Amazon doesn't know when and if it will be sold on Amazon. I have emailed both websites and have not received a reply
off topic, who remembers farmer browns in chicago near north?
i can write a paragraph about chicken as well, nobody calling me a poet.
Uncle Remus sauce IS SOOOOOO GOOOOOD
Some of the gnarliest oil I have seen on YT can be found at 4:48 YIKES
It's kinda odd how they call honey bbq- "mild sauce" ....
bigeve223 honey bbq isnt spicy. Hence where they get the "mild" from.
Really racism keep Harold’s in the hood 🤦🏾♂️ come on bruh I’m a Blackman to the core but let’s call it what it is Harold’s chicken and mild sauce is in black neighborhoods because Harold knew where to get his money
Except that one in hyde park it survived.
Facts damn near every hoodspot has a chicken joint on every corner
Way better than the DC sauce
The 1 and only Madison & Central
Harolds over uncle remus... Harolds better!!!!
This video really made me feel good, considering I'm from K-Town and that my favorite guilty pleasure is 6 wings with mild sauce from Coleman's or uncle Remus to this day,but so many really good bbq joints are gone now(Rib lady on 21st and pulaski 😔) through out the westside that things just isn't the same nomore. .
I missed Harold s fried chicken! It was really that good!