McDonald’s Is Finally Offering This Fan-Favorite Sauce In A Dipping Cup

McDonald’s Big Mac fans—rejoice! Customers in Canada will now be able to purchase the famous burger’s iconic sauce on the side (made specially for dipping), as Chew Boom reports. Here’s what we know about the new, limited-time condiment offering:

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McDonald’s traditional dipping sauces are usually available for free along with the purchase of menu items like Chicken McNuggets. This new Big Mac Sauce in dip cup form, however, is listed as a “condiment” on the McDonald’s Canada website. It is priced at 30-cents per dip cup.

No news yet as to whether this special deal will come to McDonald’s locations in the United States or elsewhere, but we have our fingers crossed!

According to the company, the Big Mac sauce was created in 1967 by a McDonald’s franchise owner, Jim Delligatti. After the national American release of the burger in 1968, the Big Mac Sauce ingredients were “fine-tuned, and there were two different versions of the McDonald’s Special Sauce being used.”

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To eliminate inconsistency, a “single recipe was developed that satisfied customers” who had a taste for either one, and this became “Big Mac Sauce recipe ’72.'”

In 1974, as some fans may recall, the name “Special Sauce” was used in the famous advertising campaign: “Two all-beef patties, Special Sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun.”

The recipe was again tweaked in 1991, and remained that way until 2004, when Fred Turner, who had worked alongside founder Ray Kroc, “wanted it changed back,” the chain writes.

After tracking down the original formula in the McDonald’s archives, Turner “contacted the supplier who had helped develop the McDonald’s Special Sauce years ago,” and the McDonald’s Special Sauce recipe was returned. The more you know!