When and how, but more importantly, why did the word "boss" become synonymous with "wonderful"? It seems that every advertisement uses the word to refer to their product now.
... the slang sense of boss that has become common among young English-speaking people recently, and which means “excellent, first-rate, superlative” (it started in the US at least as far back as the sixties, though some writers argue it’s a nineteenth-century formation, too).
I can see how boss could be applied to something seen as superior in the same way that your supervisor(superior)at work is your boss. I realize you're retired now, but you still have a boss. And you better be nice to her. And keep working on that honey do list.
"Boss sauce" was a sauce served by Macheesemo Mouse, a fast food chain in Portland, Oregon, back in the 1970s. It lived up to the definition of being superlative. Alas, the chain died when its founder did, craching a perfectly good De Haviland Canada Beaver into the Willamette River - a double loss if, like me, you're an aeroplane freak who loves "healthy Mexican food." (They only used fresh, mostly organic ingrredients)
