Comments about ‘About Utah: Fry sauce and Arctic Circle hit big 6-0’

As we called it back in the day. One correction I would like to make to this story is the location, it was on 900 S and State street, not main street. At least in the 50's when I was a teenager and getting the real deal fries and sauce there.

In it's prime years of the 50's and 60's the Don Carlos was a major attraction for teenage crowds. It was a place you took your date to after a school dance, a movie, or game. His name, Don Carlos, in large glowing red neon sat on top the drive-in building.

As a teenager then we had no idea this fry sauce was so special, all I know is we liked it. And it was free with every fry order. Over the generations I have had substitute fry sauces and every time I compared them to the Don Carlos sauce. If you have never had the Article Circle sauce then you haven't had the real fry sauce.

Don Carlos, now Arctic Circle, does deserve some recognition as a historical business in the same location for the 60 years.

Fry sauce is great. I noted on a trip to Utah that Five Guys offers it there, but not in the East. Bring it here too! Thanks, Arctic Circle.

With all the national chains coming in to Utah and trying to copy the fry sauce phenomenon here, it's still Arctic Circle with the best. Even Carl's Jr. hasn't been able to come up a fry sauce as good. It is a shame AC doesn't make a deal with these other chains to provide it's fry sauce since they can't duplicate the taste. Congrats. AC!

Having lived in the DC area for almost 15 years, I can tell you that fry sauce is a request anytime someone from the ward travels to Utah. Not the bottled kind you can get at a store, but we send tupperware containers or have someone buy the sauce in as large a quantity as they can carry. good stuff.

Unfortunately, the chain's unmentioned contribution to American culture is the typically ignorant Utah pronunciation of "Arctic" as "Artic," omitting the first "c". Listen to their advertising if you don't believe me.

This little quirk, along with "Eye-talian" and "Thee-ater" make even well-educated Utahns sound like hicks.

News for Parker. Having visited and lived in numerous parts of the country from coast to coast, I promise you that the incorrect "Artic" pronunciation is not unique to Utah and the Arctic Circle adveritsements.

You suggest that well educated Utahns sound like hicks. I can't help but wonder what parts of the country your travel takes you. My experience has been that there is not a part of the country that does not have it's own pronunciation quircks. Just ask someone who has visited New Joisy, New Yok, Booston, Chalston, Loowiville, New Awrlens, or any other of a number of different places in the country.

Show us a place in the country that has perfect pronunciation, and I'll show you a place where people speak funny, according to those from other parts of the country. You see, perfect pronunciation is all a matter of perspective. Everyone (except the critics) think they speak normal and that everyone else speaks funny.

Just ask a native Texan if he/she thinks people from other states speak funny.

Gee, Parker. Look at this.

According to Merriam Webster all those Utah hicks who say "Artic" are not wrong after all. Pronunciation: 'rk-tik, 'r-tik.

Most dictionaries are dictionaries of USAGE, meaning that they note how words ARE being pronounced, without being proscriptive about how they SHOULD be pronounced. So when a dictionary says that a word is being pronounced the way you pronounce all that means is that you are pronouncing it in a way that it is commonly pronounced. Thus, what a usage dictionary it says has no bearing on whether you, or anyone else, is pronouncing any given word CORRECTLY.

How Ironic it is that the day this article was posted, The youngest son of Don Carlos Edwards was laid to rest.Ralph Edwards was president of Arctic Circle for over 35 years.

According to My Uncle Ralph and Aunt Lois, fry Sause was only made up with mayo and ketchup, I would suggest you get the facts right next time!
I just wish you would have reached out to the family before you ran your article then you would have found out about his passing, Ralph Edwards was a wonderful and loving man and he will be deeply missed.

I just went to Arctic Circle for the first time in 15 years. I enjoyed every bite and the fries were excellent. Shame about Ralph. RIP.

Oh and Arctic Circle Fry Sauce is not just mayo and ketchup. Mayo and ketchup is the easy way of making it. Hires Big H and AC both add other things to it.