Chicago's Delicious Mild Sauce Tradition || Food/Groups

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. Watch all of Food/Groups Season 1:    • Food Porn, Drone Montage, GoPro Fail || Fo...   Read Hannibal Buress’ mild sauce essay here: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Mag... Guests The Mild Sauce Crew Cliff Skighwalker Larry Legend Nate Marshall Charmaine Rickette Joe Freshgoods Locations The Mild Sauce Podcast studio: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Harold’s Chicken Uncle Remus: http://uncleremususa.com/ Special Thanks Cliff Skighwalker: twitter.com/skighwalker Joe Freshgoods: http://www.fattigerworkshop.com/ 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 Subscribe to Thrillist    / @thrillist   Check out our website for more food, drink, travel, and entertainment. https://www.thrillist.com Like us on Facebook   / thrillist   Follow us on Instagram   / thrillist   Sign up to our newsletter https://signup.thrillist.com/