This evening the thought, “who first said they were lost in the sauce?” Passed through my head. Googled “lost in the sauce etymology” and much of the Internet claims that Gucci Mane coined the phrase in 2013. The band Ween has a beautiful song released in 1997 featuring the lyrics “Lost in the sauce once again.” This predates Gucci Mane’s usage by 16 years and is surely not the first time the phrase has been used. The misinformation and misattribution is very mildly infuriating.
Please post the earliest usage of lost in the sauce you can find so we can right this wrong.
This seems pretty obviously from cooking. If you don’t put enough of an ingredient in, it gets lost in the sauce, meaning you can’t even detect its presence.