Freddie Lee James, Jr.

Entrepreneur/Sauce Man

Freddie Lee’s American Gourmet Sauce, LLC creates delicious multi-purpose sauces with a unique taste that are great for barbecue and much more. We create and manufacture Freddie Lee’s Gourmet Sauce in mild and spicy to suit everyone’s taste preferences. Our sauce tastes great on most meats and it also serves as a great seasoning for soups, chili, sloppy joes, spaghetti and tacos just to name a few.

For decades, we’ve been giving our sauces to family, friends, and co-workers and have been provided with great feedback. People have asked us what is the name of the sauce, and at that time we didn’t have a name. One day Fred and I had completed a batch of sauce and we took a much needed break. So we went and sat on the front porch to escape the extreme temperatures of the kitchen. It was a warm summer day and Fred looked at me and said honey, one day GOD is going to bless us to get out of the Ghetto. Praise GOD I said, and then it hit me, Ghetto Sauce would be the name. We laughed and Fred said “I can’t do that”. I said “then put your name on it and call it Freddie Lee’s Ghetto Sauce”. We prayed about the name and laughed. The name just stuck with us and felt right. We don’t mean to be racist, negative, or degrading to anyone’s race or nationality. We love all GOD’s people, and we love to enjoy family, food, and good times in that order.
We added Freddie Lee’s American Gourmet Sauce to our family of sauces because it made it a lot easier to get our product into markets that did not want to offend and we understand.