Szechuan Sauce is a Chicken McNuggets condiment that was originally released in 1998, and briefly returned in 2017 and 2018.
On June 19th, 1998, The Walt Disney Company released their animated feature film Mulan, the story of a brave daughter who posed as a man and enrolled into the Chinese military to take her wounded father’s place in the fight against the Hun invasion. To coincide with the upcoming Disney film, McDonald’s released a new limited-time condiment, the Szechuan teriyaki dipping sauce. It was created to mimic traditional Chinese Szechuan Sauce, and it came complete with Happy Meal Chicken McNuggets and one out of a set of eight Mulan toys. After the promotion of the film, the sauce was removed from all McDonald’s restaurants. Contrary to popular belief, Genuine 1998 SzeChuan dipping sauce’s plastic cover is purple & white, not red. The red dipping sauce was a photoshop combination of 2011 BBQ sauce.
Talk of McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce became prominent in 2017 when it was referenced in the Adult Swim science fiction dark comedy series Rick and Morty.
Obviously that’s why I added it to SauceRank. You should also go explore the other (probably more authentic) versions of Szechuan sauces out there. Many of them are amazing used as dips, marinades, bbq glazes, and stir-fry sauces.
Ingredients
- water
- sugar
- distilled vinegar
- corn starch
- wheat
- soybeans
- salt
- corn vinegar
- contains 2 percent or less:
- apple cider vinegar
- ginger
- soybean oil
- sesame seed oil
- xanthan gum
- spice
- yeast extract
- garlic
- wheat starch
- natural flavor
- citric acid
- safflower oil
- dextrose
- potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate (preservatives)
