Today I would like to write about my favourite barbecue sauce in the whole world.
You see, barbecue sauces aren't my favourite so I usually opt for something else if I could. I don't like that translucent dark brown sauce that has a mild smokey taste, but mostly sweet and ever-so-slightly sour.
Then I went to the United States. And I went to Western Washington University. And I went to the dining hall. And right there in a stainless steel sauce can, arranged between ketchup and mustard sauce was a label plastered "Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce".
Instinctively, I opted for good 'ol ketchup to go with the hot, freshly deep fried fries. But on one random day, I had a pump of this barbecue sauce on my plate beside two pumps of ketchup, a pump of mayonnaise, and two squeezes of Sriracha sauce. And since then, the Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce has been a staple of my plate of fries...or on the burger patty...or with nuggets. (Yeah, if I like a sauce, I put it with everything... like sambal kicap - OMG, salivate!)
The Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce has a more genuine-ish smokiness to it (like someone if barbecuing something and you take that smoke and put it in a bottle LOL), tastes sour-ish and very mildly sweet. The texture and colour is more of a thick dark reddish-brown, tiny bit grainy (if I remember correctly) consistency and almost not translucent at all.
Anyway, I had to come back to Malaysia, a land where you can find all sorts of food, both local and international. But we don't import Sweet Baby Ray's!!! My stupid brain forgot to buy a few bottles of this sauce that I came to love so much. Sure, my bags were overweight, but stuffing in a few extra bottles of Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce isn't gonna make much of a difference... I was gonna pay the overweight baggage fees anyway.
I came back with a heavy heart...because I didn't bring back my freaking sauce (and because I had to part ways with my friends, of course. But that's besides the point)! I can still picture the rows filled with it at Target and Fred Meyers, but when I open my food stash cupboard, I see none of those! *sobs dramatically*
Okay, being a bit dramatic here but it's that time of the month and I WANT MY SWEET BABY RAY'S BARBECUE SAUCE!
Being in a globalized era, I feel fortunate to have online shopping sites and international shipping being carried out. I fired up the amazing Amazon.com and slammed the alphabets into the search bar. *Que heavenly music* With sparkly eyes and impatient index finger on the mouse, I opened two tabs of Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce - 18oz (pack of 2) and 1 gallon. The latter is tempting as hell.
WHUT.
Wait...wha....t?
International shipping not available?! Why?! WHYYYY?!!! Globalization, my butt!
The moment of heartbreak is so real, guys. I feel so empty and life is meaningless.
I just want my Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce. Why is it so difficult? I'm not asking for a diamond ring.
*sigh*
Guess this means I'll just have to go back to the United States. Or Sweet Baby Ray's could do this desperate fan a favour and ship a couple over. I could be a future franchisee, I don't know.. anything is possible in this day and age, right? hahaha
Okay, back to work. Bye, guys. Heartbreakers.
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