FOOD NEWS
The Story Of How McDonald's Big Mac Sauce Came About
By C.A. Pinkham
There's nothing quite like McDonald’s tangy, special Big Mac sauce. Although its ingredients have kept patrons guessing for decades, the sauce's origins are known.
The original Big Mac sauce was created in 1968 at a McDonald's in Pittsburgh by a franchise owner named Jim Delligatti to serve with the Big Mac.
The sauce first came in two different flavors, but they were ultimately combined by McDonald's head honcho Ray Kroc in 1972 in order to ensure consistency.
The sauce's original internal company name was "Big Mac Sauce '72," and it was actually the 1974 commercial that made the name "special sauce" stick with consumers.
In 1991, the company decided to switch things up with a new special sauce recipe, but a lot of people, including McDonald's CEO Fred Turner, weren't fans of this change.
In 2004, Turner decided he'd had enough of the change and reinstated the original special sauce recipe.