The Cane's Sauce Dupe You Can Buy For Less Than $3 At Walmart

Raising Cane's is the authority on serving crispy, cooked-to-order chicken fingers. However, it's the eatery's signature sauce that turns those fingers into a feast. Known as Cane's sauce, this creamy dip is made in-house daily only by those managers who have signed an NDA first to guarantee that they keep schtum about the exact measures of the classified recipe. If you're a Cane's sauce obsessive, we've got some good news — Walmart stocks a dupe called chicken finger dipping sauce that costs less than $3.

The Raising Cane's website states that its Cane sauce is such a top-secret recipe that most of the crewmembers don't even know the ingredients. Described as "tangy with a little bit of spice," the sauce is primarily made for chicken fingers but can be enjoyed with fries or Texas toast, too. Despite all this cloak and dagger, there's no shortage of copycat recipes online for this iconic dip. For instance, this easy copycat recipe for Raising Cane's sauce takes seconds to prepare with pantry staples like mayo and Worcestershire sauce. Having said that, if you don't always have all the ingredients on hand or simply want a more convenient option, Walmart's dupe can step in to save the day.

This creamy but tangy sauce is a combination of vinegar, corn syrup, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, and tamarind (along with spices like celery seed and garlic powder). The result is a salmon pink condiment dotted with visible flecks of pepper that strikes the perfect balance between sweet, savory, and zesty flavor profiles.

What does genuine Raising Cane's sauce taste like? It looks strikingly similar to Thousand Island dressing, but in terms of flavor, it has a much stronger kick to it due to the sheer amount of pepper that's mixed in along with other secret spices. According to reviews on Walmart's website, the dupe version is almost as good as bona fide Cane sauce (which diehard customers with mega-sized cravings can purchase in a huge 32oz cup!). One reviewer describes it as "without a doubt the best Cane's dupe out there, so good and it always sells out so quick, please Walmart sell more!!" while another hones in on the affordable price, stating that it's "a great budget-friendly alternative to going to Raising Cane's."  

Meanwhile, Walmart's chicken dipping sauce is a total Chick-fil-A copycat and has several five-star reviews on the website. Billed as "almost identical to the Chick-fil-A sauce" by one reviewer, a 12-ounce bottle costs $2.38. Just bear in mind that it has a different recipe and flavor from the almost identically-named chicken-finger dipping sauce, so don't confuse them!

Along with Cane's sauce, Raising Cane's also makes its own honey mustard each day, while hot sauce is available on request for diners who like to douse their chicken fingers in something spicier than a mellow mayo-based dip.