CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
Issue link: http://www.epageflip.net/i/1510651
18 November 2023 "I started with one event and really enjoyed it. It started out slow, and I was trying to get my name out there. I hired a DJ and set up games for adults and children like kickball and brought a football for the kids to throw. I was looking for something to bring the kids together." Pringle said he began to partner with motorcycle clubs looking to bring the community together. "Suddenly, I had 300 people at my next event," says Pringle. 'Everything Sauce' is born Pringle was making a grilling sauce for his cookouts, but he never imagined that would lead him to start his own business. "In D.C., we had a sauce called 'Mumbo Sauce.' I was looking through my cabinets and trying to make Mumbo Sauce and didn't have all the ingredients. So, I mixed a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. I took it to the park and people liked it. It stuck." Mumbo, which is sometimes called "Mambo Sauce," is tangy and savory. A popular sauce in the Black communities of Washington, the reddish-orange condiment is like barbecue sauce and leaves a thick, glaze-like texture on anything you put it on. It's sweet and sour with a little kick that gives food some zing. Pringle calls his sauce Mumbo, which is sometimes called "e Everything Sauce," but it's also called "Flip Flop Sauce." Why Flip Flop? As his cookout guests raved about his sauce, many asked, "Mr. Carl, what are you gonna call it?" Pringle looked down at his feet to think, saw the flip-flops he was wearing, and thought, 'It's so good, you could put it on a flip-flop and eat it." "at was the initial thought behind the name 'Flip Flop Sauce,'" says Pringle. As the sauce gained a following, Pringle streamlined his initial thought to, "It's sweet on the front, with a kick of heat on the back. en, they flip and they flop." He says the sauce was created to put smiles on people's faces. It worked. And many encouraged him to market it. Friends connected Pringle with Bob Fletcher, known for his popular Bob's Smokin' Southern BBQ Sauce. Fletcher took Pringle to lunch to discuss his business prospects. Carl Pringle spends time with his grandchildren, Kadyn Harris and Khali Pringle, on the playground at Ponderosa Elementar y School.