Memphis Sauce

On the shores of the Mississippi River, in the city which hosts the World’s Largest Cooking event (so sayeth Guinness Book) they practice a different sort of sauce preparation. They take the molasses from Kentucky, vinegar from the Carolinas, Tabasco from the Bayou, and mix it with lots of tomato sauce and maybe a glug or two of ketchup. The resulting very brown-red sauce is sorta sweet, sorta spicy, and not too thick.