“Mumbo sauce,” “mambo sauce” and “mombo sauce” are three different spellings for perhaps the same sauce, served as a barbecue sauce on fried chicken wings, fired jumbo shrimp and french fries. 
   
   
Wikipedia: Mumbo sauce
Mumbo sauce or mambo sauce is a condiment developed and popularized in Washington, DC take-out restaurants. The red-orange sauce is similar to barbecue sauce, but somewhat sweeter, and also somewhat spicier or more sour. (There is some variation in flavor and consistency.) It is put onto fried chicken wings, french fries, fried jumbo shrimp, and fried rice. The origin and ingredients of Mumbo sauce are subject to great dispute. It is often compared to Chicago mild sauce, found at take-out restaurants in that city’s predominantly Black neighborhoods.
 
History
The trademark Mumbo name was first used by Argia B. Collins, Sr., for use in connection with a barbecue sauce he developed for his Chicago restaurant. Since at least as early as 1950, Mr. Collins and his business used this trademark, and his successor-in-interest, Select Brands, LLC, registered the trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on May 25, 1999, Registration No. 2,247,855. The Mumbo trademark has been used for sauces, and appears on labels as part of the phrase Mumbo® Sauce.
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However, according to Capital City Mumbo Sauce, the sauce originated in a restaurant called “Wings-n-Things” in the late 1960s.
   
NYS Historic Newspapers
6 December 1981, Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express, pg. F-2, cols. 1-6:
Patricia Ward Biederman
‘King of Wings’ Rates
Fuss and Feathers
John Young is chicken-wing history’s forgotten man.
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Young, the self-styled “king of wings” insists that he is the one true originator of the Buffalo chicken wing.
 
Sure enough, the 47-year-old proprietor of John Young’s Wings and Things has bought, deep-fried and sold tons of little chicken limbs in his time.
 
“I was selling 5,000 pounds of wings in 1962,” says Young, whose receipts from Will’s Poultry have yellowed with age to the shade of a Perdue Oven-Stuffer.
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Young registered the name “Young’s Wings and Things” with the Erie County Clerk’s Office in 1966, but he’s actually eaten chicken wings for decades.
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He remembers the very moment a new food was born—an occasion he would not describe as Bellissimo. The year was 1962, and Young had a store at Jefferson and High that catered to hungry teen-agers. One day he was shooting the breeze with his friend Sam Anderson, who had just come back from Washington, D.C.
 
“John,” said Sam, “you got that good barbecue sauce. You know, in Washington, D.C., people are going crazy over chicken wings.”
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Young doesn’t deny that the Bellissimos contributed to the evolution of the Buffalo chicken wing. Concedes Young, “That’s the credit I give Frank for, coming up with the blue cheese and celery. They did do that.”
 
When you buy one of Young’s original-style wings, you get both halves, elbow unsevered, not two drumettes. And Young’s classic version is smothered in his special “mombo sauce.” A secret blend of 24 herbs and spices, mombo sauce is the key to the success of his wings, says Young, who acquired the recipe in Jamaica from an old man in a sugar cane field. At his present location, Young sells 2,300 pounds of wings weekly, mostly with mombo sauce.
 
“I bet I don’t get three calls a week for blue cheese and celery,” he adds.
 
(Trademark)
Word Mark ARGIA B’S MUMBO SAUCE
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: Barbecue sauce. FIRST USE: 19500301. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19500301
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 90703030
Filing Date May 11, 2021
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) Select Brands LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ILLINOIS 8239 S. Wabash Chicago ILLINOIS 60619
Attorney of Record Lema Khorshid
Prior Registrations 2247855
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
       
(Trademark)
Word Mark CAPITAL CITY MAMBO SAUCE
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: Sauces. FIRST USE: 20110500. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20110500
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 88122027
Filing Date September 18, 2018
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition March 10, 2020
Registration Number 6061539
Registration Date May 26, 2020
Owner (REGISTRANT) Capital City LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY MARYLAND 1290 Bay Day Drive Suite 213 Arnold MARYLAND 21012
Attorney of Record David H. Levitt
Disclaimer NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE “MAMBO SAUCE” APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
 
(Trademark)
Word Mark MARVIN’S AUTHENTIC D.C. STYLE MAMBO SAUCE
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: Sauces; ready-made sauces; cooking sauces; grilling sauces; dipping sauces; marinades
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 97085961
Filing Date October 21, 2021
Current Basis 1B
Original Filing Basis 1B
Owner (APPLICANT) C & G Foundas, Inc. TA Starvin Marvins Pizza & Subs CORPORATION MARYLAND 6942 Crestwood Blvd. Frederick MARYLAND 21703
Attorney of Record Gregory M. Stone
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
 
(Trademark)
Word Mark MUMBO SAUCE
Goods and Services IC 030. US 046. G & S: Seasoned bean paste; Seasoned coating for meat, fish, poultry; Seasoned coating mixtures for foods; Seasoned crackers; Seasoned popcorn; Seasoned pretzels; Seasoned salt; Seasoned soy sauce (Chiyou); Seasoning mixes; Seasoning mixes for soups; Seasoning mixes for stews; Seasoning pastes; Seasoning rubs; Seasonings; Chili seasoning; Chili seasonings; Cooking powder, namely, bacon-flavored seasoning powder; Crab boil; Dry seasoning mixes for spices; Food seasonings; Garden herbs, preserved; Jerk seasoning; Noodles and seasoning mixes combined in unitary packages; Noodles, sauce, and seasoning toppings combined in unitary packages; Preserved garden herbs as seasonings; Preserved herbs as seasonings; Rice and seasoning mix combined in unitary packages; Sloppy Joe seasoning mix; Steak seasoning; Taco seasoning; Taco seasonings; Vegetable concentrates used for seasoning. FIRST USE: 20200101. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20200101
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 97429071
Filing Date May 25, 2022
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) MUMBO SEASONING INDIVIDUAL UNITED STATES 4031 19TH ST NE Washington D.C. 20018
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
 
(Trademark)
Word Mark MOMBO SAUCE
Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 030. US 046. G & S: Sauces; Chicken wing sauce; Cooking sauces; Dipping sauces; Grilling sauces; Jerk sauce; Ready-made sauces; Savory sauces used as condiments. FIRST USE: 19620101. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19620101
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 90383022
Filing Date December 15, 2020
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) Derrick Smith DBA Mombo Sauce LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY D.C. 566 25th Place NE Washington D.C. 20002
Type of Mark TRADEMARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD
Abandonment Date December 22, 2021