turtles and ketchup.. you'd think someone would've heard of them by now

one day i was just minding my own business, right, hanging with my friends or something to that effect.  someone said something or other and i was like "oh man... awkward turtle"

and, uh, then it happened.


everyone, and i mean everyone i was with was though i had gone insane.  like i didn't know what i was saying, like i had totally made it up.  i swear i didn't.  i picked up the saying in like high school or early college or something. no one had heard of it, and it was weird.

so i was thinking about it, and i typed in 'awkward' into google.  of course, awkward family photos is what comes of first, respectably, but turtle is the first word when..  you type a 't' after.

see?  i'm not crazy.  and that little guy is adorable.

its funny when people say things and no one else gets it.  my mom does it all the time, since, she's... well... from a slightly different generation than i am.  heck, i don't get half of the things my brothers say about the 80's (though i do know a thing or two about the 80s), and they're of a slightlier different generation..

or, you know, people from different countries or states have their phrases that no one gets.  and then you stare at them like they're totally insane and they're like "what?"  its kind of like the reaction i got when i told people that i didn't know what fry sauce was.

for real, i don't really know what it is about utah specific culture.. but i swear that people poop their pants more when they realize that no one else knows what they're talking about.  but Scott!  you're a member of the Church!! you know ALL about utah, right? um. no, i don't.  maybe i didn't pay enough attention in sunday school growing up or something.

i remember it pretty well, it was my first year at BYU and i was eating in the good ol cannon center (which, by the way is pretty dang good for a cafeteria..).  we had burgers and fries and then there were the big containers of the stuff that you put on burgers and fries, you know like.. ketchup... mustard.. pink stuff...

"wait, what the crap is that pink stuff?"

and then... it happened...



'like oh. my. GOSH. you don't know what fry sauce is?'

um. no. i don't.  i put ketchup on my fries.  like a normal person.  no one outside of utah uses fry sauce. and no, idaho and gilbert, arizona don't count either.  they're basically the same place. 

whenever i go to a fast food place in provo, they always ask if i want fry sauce.  and every time i hear that question, i'm tempted to ask the same thing that probably every person who isn't from utah has thought at least 3-4 times when asked that question themselves:

"you mean ketchup?"

"no sir, i meant fry sauce"

"yeah.  ketchup.  the sauce that you put of fries.  cause this is America.  and here in America, we put ketchup on our freedom fries, boy!"


when they finally told me what fry sauce is (ketchup & mayo) i was like "oh."  really? thats it?  we totally have that.  i've totally had fry sauce.  we just don't call it that where i'm from.  nope.  i've always called it "thatstuffthatmymomputsonroastbeefsandwitches."  what, i mean you haven't heard of that? oh. my. goodness.  why don't you call it that?


anyways, i'm done.  fry sauce is good, but i don't put it on fries.  that's just weird.