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Jun 9, 2011

Review: McDonald's New Chicken McNugget Sauces

McDonald's new Chicken McNugget Sauces give you a few more options to dunk your McNuggets in if you so choose. The "new" sauces are Creamy Ranch, Honey Mustard, Sweet Chili, and Spicy Buffalo.

I've touched upon some of these new sauce back when I reviewed Chicken McNuggets and can't say my opinion of them has changed. Three of them (Creamy Ranch, Honey Mustard, and Spicy Buffalo) seem to be repackaged, smaller versions of pre-existing Chicken Select sauces while the last (Sweet Chili) was available for a limited time back during the Vancouver Olympics.
Here are my thoughts on the new sauces below:
  • Creamy Ranch - a fairly thick ranch sauce; would go well with a chicken strip but not so much with the trademark McNugget flavor; would probably go well on a salad as well.
  • Honey Mustard - very mustardy; would also go well with a chicken strip. Not liking it so much with the McNuggets.
  • Sweet Chili - basically a Thai sweet chili sauce; it has the requisite bit of spiciness; reminiscent of Sweet and Sour but not as tart.
  • Spicy Buffalo - the spiciest sauce on the McDonald's menu with vinegary sourness; very bright orange.

If you like stronger, less common flavors, you might go for Spicy Buffalo and Honey Mustard. Out of the four, I liked Sweet Chili the best but none of them beat out the classic Barbecue and Sweet and Sour in my book.

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