The Naked Truth About Fast Food Secret Sauces: You Would Have Never Guessed They Were Hiding THIS

Many of us love the McDonald's Big Mac for their special sauce or the Burger King sauce that makes the chicken fries worth eating. However, if you have always wondered what the secret is, it will surprise you to learn it's not even a secret at all.

The Things You Need To Know About The Secret Sauces Include:

Employees have to sign non-disclosure agreements

Fast food companies take their special sauce recipes very seriously. They're treated with the utmost concern, so much so that employees only know the ingredients on a “need-to-know” basis. And even then, those employees are made to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Big Mac Special Sauce comes special delivery, with special hardware The greatly-guarded gravy arrives in sealed containers made by a company called Sealright, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. The Golden Arches have been doing business with this once humble Kansas-based company since 1996. Sealright's documents say their specially calibrated equipment “dispenses controlled portions of sauces, condiments and dressings.” As fancy as that sounds, all it really means is McDonald's squirts the sauce onto their Big Macs using something that looks like a caulking gun.

The recipes exist online, and they're made of pretty common ingredients

According to the Daily Mail, the recipe for Big Mac special sauce has existed online “for years,” And it's all thanks to former executive chef Dan Coudreaut. Aside from exposing what's supposed to be a well-guarded secret to the world, this revelation goes one step further to take all the specialness out of the sauce by divulging just what the ingredients are. Everything needed to make McDonald's special sauce can be bought at the “local grocery store.” It's nothing more than mayonnaise, mustard, and relish, with some other spices.

Jack in the Box Secret Sauce Recipe

Jack in the Box requires all franchises to have the sauce on hand for nostalgia-ridden customers. And that's despite the fact that it's pretty easy to make at home. Just pour “mayonnaise, mustard and chili sauce into one pot.

Burger King chicken fries sauce

Burger King introduced a special sauce for their chicken fries in 2015. This sauce is so secret that BK didn't have signage for it in most of its locations. Those who managed to get their mouths on some of this hush-hush relish say it's a combination of barbecue sauce and honey mustard.

In-N-Out Burger's secret sauce
In-N-Out adorned their burgers with something simply called “spread” for over six decades. The “spread” recipe remained a So-Cal mystery until August 2015, when the recipe was revealed to the world. The formula long thought to be a variation of Thousand Island dressing turned out to be just that.

Hardee's and Carl's Jr's Big Twin sauce

Big Twin Sauce is still a closely guarded secret. However, just like most of the other sauces, it seems to be nothing more than a variation on Thousand Island dressing.

Arby's sauce
Their narrowly-regraded relish can be easily copied with ketchup, garlic powder, and Tabasco sauce.

Well, The Secret Is Out!

Now that you know the secret behind fast food chains' secret sauces, you probably won't be as excited to order them anymore. Did you know how these secret sauces were made?

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