Talk:Special sauce

This article was merged into the Big Mac article as per the discussion at Talk:Big Mac

-Jeremy (Jerem43 22:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC))

I work there
I happen to work at a McDonalds, and it always seemed to me that Mac Sauce was a fast-food-ified form of Thousand Island dressing. Am I right? Gus 22:58, 2004 Sep 20 (UTC)

"Secret Sauce" Revealed!
I used to work at a McDonald's a few years back, so I took it upon myself to read the list of ingredients for a lot of the pre-packaged food and food products they served. I was pretty surprised to learn that the ingredient list for what McDonald's crew call Mac sauce is incredibly similar to the tartar sauce they served on Filet O' Fish. In fact, if memory serves me correctly, there are 3 more ingredients in Mac sauce than tartar sauce, and they appeared near the end of the list. Now because they're at the end of the list, there isn't very large amount of these ingredients in the sauce. This leads me to believe that those ingredients are what makes Mac sauce different in colour (and only slightly different in taste) from tartar sauce. Cappo 07:42, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

What it REALLY is
The so-called "special" sauce that McDonalds uses on Big Macs is marketed throughout the U.S. (especially the south) as "sandwich spead," Kraft and JFG are two brands. It is nothing more nor less than salad dressing, pickle relish, and chili sauce.

I thought that it was just Ketchup and Mayo mixed together. BigBadUglyBugFacedBabyEatingO&#39;Brian 19:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I thought it was Russian Dressing Doc Strange 16:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Other food items
McDonalds vary their menu according to the country or region. eg. In Australia, we have the 'Mac Oz' Burger. When I was in New Caledonia I saw the 'McFarmer' burger. Other items to add to the list; McDonald's Cookies, Thickshake.

Citation Requirement
What are the odds that we can find a reliable 'source' for the existence of the sauce guns and sealed canisters? The fact that I've held them, and could probably get banished from my local McDonald's by taking pictures of the kitchen, probably counts as original research, unfortunately. Betsumei 03:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, you know how Wikipedia can be. "There are five fingers on the human hand. " --  Randall00  Talk 21:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Article title
MacSauce? I've never heard it called that until I found this article. It seems to me that "special sauce" is FAR more commonly used. PubliusFL 04:30, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree that it should be called "special sauce." Amen. Hermitage 02:58, 26 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm going to move it back. The McDonalds site calls it Big Mac Sauce, not MacSauce. But the general usage is special sauce. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 07:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Lost Recipe?
It seems extremely unlikely to me that the McDonald's Corporation "lost" the original recipe for this sauce, especially between 2000 and 2004, an age where it's not easy to permanently lose data of any kind. Isn't this recipe automated by some sort of machine by now, considering the vast quantities with which it must be manufactured? And for that matter, how could it have made it to a machine if it wasn't sitting on a computer somewhere? And if it was sitting on a computer somewhere, that means it has to be sitting on another computer somewhere.

I realize that it says that the "original" recipe was lost, not necessarily any copies, but then there's a random sentence thrown in there saying that the sauce was then "abandoned" to reduce costs and implies that losing the recipe had something to do with it. Then it says the recipe was recovered by one of the "original sauce suppliers" but makes no mention as to whether or not it was reintroduced into daily usage. Or the significance of recovering the original recipe in the first place! --  Randall00  Talk 21:19, 4 October 2007 (UTC)