Good chips don't need salsa, but they serve all chips with salsa because it's really hard to find a good chip!
Adding side sauces to meats is like adding ketchup to fries, butter to bread, soy sauce to rice, or milk to cereal. It just improves the flavour and builds off of it. While I'll be the first in favor of the flavour of meat, I'll also be the first in favor of barbecue sauce and teriyaki.
And in that vein.. we had no barbecue sauce for our Little Smokies this Super Bowl. So, instead, we improvised and used teriyaki sauce. It was delicious.
Also Spam fried in barbecue sauce. Try it. It's good. Really, it is!