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Jimmy Downs has been an active Usauce volunteer for over 6 years. When it comes to logging long hours and teamwork,
nobody can top Jimmy. Check back regularly for updated thoughts and stories from our man on the front lines.
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8/16/26
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Well, try this one on for size.
I don't eat out too much these days (unless you count Kirkland wiener stand BOGOs) but of course, I too saw all those hot reviews on Whelp about the new ethnic restaurant in the greater Milner area, and I just couldn't help myself.
Well I walk in the door, and as far as the eye goes, there they were! Unmarked bottles and sauces of every color on the rainbow, placed before hungry diners and just like that afterwards, the same bottle scooped up and put and put before another. No wiping. No apologizing. No rebottling. Not a PPC in the building. Just like it was lifted right out of one of our (in)famous SCA brochures. Some one out there must be reading these things after all! Didn't much care for the food, but I will absolutely be back.
But can I just say one more thing.
As we all know this movement is now 30 years going strong – nearly 15 of those years on the Internet, mind you – and yet this morning I'm writing Jimmy an expense report email and plainly type 'usauce' into my trusty keyboard, then look back just the moment I hit send to find some little computer elves have changed what I wrote and there's 'I sauce' staring back at me sailing off into the wilds of the internet. The shock! Well now, clearly I do sauce. That is accurate and it is after all the point of all this, isn't it. For the last time, we don't oppose sauce, only the waste of it. So yes I sauce. But all of this auto-correctioning, not to mention all the political correctioning before it, is starting to feel like just another of the vast forces aligned against us. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I put 'tickets' in with IT. More like a ticket to no where, as Glenda at Damon's famously tells every body that walks in. It doesn't matter how many times the Geek Squad pulls up their trusty blue chariot outside the Maynard building either. Looks like it might take another 30 years before we finally get usauce get its proper place in the Apple dictionary, but I promise you this ol' soldier'll keep sending Mr Jobs my beleaguered email petitions til kingdom come. It's all a fella can do not to end his every day falling to his knees and shaking his fists at the heavens.
But I digress.
See you next time.
Pamphlet folding and postering second Tuesdays in the party room at Shoneys. Not Golden Corral anymore.
Jimmy
1/27/22
Greetings and salutations!
No surprise but a lot of folks have been reaching out lately given everything that's been going on.
Those bigwigs down the interstate are back at it, and they're just going to do what there gonna do. Look, when you've been in this arena for as long as I have you know things can get a bit sticky sometimes. But in our business that's not always a bad thing!
Anyway I'll try to respond to everyone's concerns direct in the next couple quarters so sit tight and keep the feedback flowing.
In the mean time I'll probably be double dipping a bit more than usual!
LOL
Jim
5/18/18
Greeting again to all my old friends,
It's such a real pleasure to be getting back to all of you. I've had myself a real nice chance to stew around in my mind a couple of good thoughts that I can't wait to share with you. I'm sure that readers of this blog will remember my old friend Conrad Janes. We just wrapped up a camping trip for about 10 days hiking and goofing around in the Sugarlands. Admiring the foliage, sharing thoughts about the movement. Getting back to the real basics of what really matters.
Like sauce!
And there's one thing ol' Conrad said that I really could not help but have stay with me a few days here and boy have I had some great thoughts spin off of it. He said to me:
'Jimmy D, lemme ask you: what is the difference between soup and sauce?"
Well, I was stumped until he told me.
"A soup is just a sauce people eat the last drop of."
Well! Suffice it to say it's been a long couple of days letting that sink in. Not to get to sounding like a freshman term paper on you here, but what's important here is stripping away the social constructs of what a sauce is. Why is appropriate even in a fancy restaurant to bring an empty bowl of soup up to your mouth to lick off the last drop? But what would people say if you tried that with the gravy boat? Or the ketchup. And why are the spouts so skinny?
Jimmy
12/21/07
I was eating lunch today at Reggie's (yes, it has the same name as that other diner fom Seinfeld).
Sitting at the lunch counter one seat down from me was a little girl eating a salad.
Well, her salad came and she just kept putting and putting and putting sauce on that thing.
I couldn't believe it and I nearly choked on my own salad (moderately dressed, of course!)
I said, little girl, don't you know there are people in other countries who would love to have
even the extra sauce that you're wasting on that plate.
And she said, 'this isn't sauce, silly, it's dressing.'
Ah, the innocence of children.
But that little story has a real lesson to it, don't you think?
It's easy for us to forget sometimes, especially during the holiday season with all its fast pace and shopping,
that dressings are sauces and sauces are dressings. So is spaghetti sauce.
Even if we forget that that is true, it is.
Have a good afternoon and a Happy New Year!
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