{"id":2226,"date":"2026-06-19T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:18:07","slug":"bees-crown-utahs-best-fry-sauce-on-night-celebrating-condiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Bees crown Utah\u2019s best fry sauce on night celebrating condiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah\u2019s top fry sauce might be hidden at the home of the Salt Lake Bees.<\/p>

That\u2019s what the fans decided during the team\u2019s first-ever \u201cFry Sauce Night\u201d at The Ballpark at America First Square. Yes, the team\u2019s in-house sauce, a mix of mayonnaise and ketchup, along with ranch, barbecue and sour cream, per the team\u2019s chef, Leonard Love, took the crown in a much-anticipated battle of Utah\u2019s favorite condiment.<\/p>

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\u201cI\u2019m honored. I\u2019m just a Florida guy who is learning the Utah lifestyle,\u201d Love said, holding a golden condiment bottle he was awarded.<\/p>

The award does come with a few caveats. Fans were given a sauce sampler with fries and then asked to vote with their cellphones after the fact. The Bees\u2019 in-house team only competed with some of the juggernauts \u2014 and recent entrants \u2014 in the fry sauce game: Arctic Circle, Hires Big H and J-Dawgs.<\/p>

Other fan favorite sauces, like Crown Burgers, Tonyburgers or Apollo Burger, weren\u2019t in the mix. Those who came to the table in the right field patio also seemed content with a free sampling without formally voting.<\/p>

One fan called fry sauce \u201cthe best thing ever,\u201d telling KSL she has an Olympic pin celebrating fry sauce from the 2002 Games. Another said she was from Arizona but had adopted the sauce in Utah, saying she was a fan of the Bees sauce from the four in front of her.<\/p>

Thursday\u2019s festivities celebrated all things fry sauce, regardless of the recipe. It was a quirky minor league baseball night that started with the players \u2014 many for the first time \u2014 dunking fries in the sauce after batting practice. A youth team recognized before the game fittingly wore fry sauce-colored orange uniforms, which was a coincidence, a Bees spokesperson said.<\/p>

One of fry sauce\u2019s founding fathers also started the night off.<\/p>

Fry sauce\u2019s origin is not as straightforward as its primary mayonnaise and ketchup combination, as Deseret News noted after trying to sort it all out in 2022. One story pins it to Ron Taylor and Max Peay, who came up with it while working at an Arctic Circle franchise in Provo in 1955.<\/p>

The two got tired of ketchup and liked mixing around sauces, and decided to mix it with mayonnaise. They started sharing it with friends and the word got out, with people asking about \u201cthat fry sauce stuff.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cSome people said we had a recipe. We didn\u2019t have a recipe. We just looked at the consistency and the color, and we liked it,\u201d he told KSL, reflecting on the moment all these years later. \u201c(The customers) named it. We didn\u2019t give it a name.\u201d<\/p>

Fry sauce became a lore after that, being picked up at other Arctic Circle locations. It then became a staple at essentially every restaurant in the state after that.<\/p>

\u201cIt just took off. It surprised me, but look what it\u2019s become now,\u201d said Taylor, who tossed out the first pitch Thursday night.<\/p>

He was taken aback as he watched the night\u2019s celebration, too, watching people take delight in what he helped create.<\/p>

It\u2019s unclear if the Bees will bring back the theme night next year or expand the competition. Love, who now owns the newest crown in the condiment\u2019s history, is ready to defend his new title either way.<\/p>

\u201cI guarantee a second win, and I absolutely didn\u2019t pay anyone off to vote for us,\u201d he added, with a grin.<\/p>

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Or perhaps the best fry sauce recipe is as mysterious as its origin.<\/p>