special sauce

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English

Noun

special sauce (usually uncountable, plural special sauces)

  1. A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company).
    • 1975, McDonald's Corporation, Big Mac advertising jingle:
      two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun
    • 2001 January, Matt Groening, “Parasites Lost”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 4:
      one day you'll be eatin' a fast-food burger.... Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special?
  2. (figurative) Synonym of secret sauce.
  3. Burger sauce.