Wow-Wow Sauce

A very potent and highly unstable condiment. One of the main problems with Wow-Wow Sauce is its tendency to turn into an explosive when mixed with charcoal, the only element of gunpowder that it lacks.

The ingredients for Wow-Wow Sauce, as stated in Reaper Man, are:

• Matured Scumble
• Pickled Cucumbers
• Capers
• Mustard
• Mangoes
• Figs
• Grated Wahoonie
• Anchovy Essence
• Asafetida
• A good deal of Sulfur and Saltpeter

Wow-Wow sauce is itself an ingredient in the "ultimate hangover cure" the wizards create in Hogfather. It may seem paradoxical that a sauce containing the highly alcoholic scumble could cure hangovers, but the hangover cure's ingredients (and possibly Wow-Wow sauce's ingredients too) undergo considerable chemical and magical changes. Roundworld analogy: two highly inflammable gases, hydrogen and oxygen, combine to form the fire-quenching substance water.

Archchancellor Ridcully enjoys Wow-Wow Sauce on his meals, often to an extent that most sane men who knew about the ingredients would be terrified of. A bottle of freshly-brewed sauce has, in extremis, been employed as a hand-grenade.

There is a legal, non-lethal and decent recipe for Wow-Wow Sauce in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook, which is probably as near as legal statutes concerning manufacture and storage of explosive substances will allow anyone on Roundworld to get....

Ridcully states that his uncle used to swear at Wow-Wow Sauce, and when another member of the faculty corrects him by saying, "Surely you mean by?" he concedes that his uncle might also have done that.