Best commercial imitations of McDonalds chicken McNuggets sauces

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I like sweet n sour, hot mustard & honey mustard the best. However I know there are several more varieties (BBQ, etc).

So I was under the impression you can’t buy the exact same product commercially. Is that true? If so, what products taste the closest?

I have tried Ken’s Steakhouse honey mustard and I think that is the closest imitation to honey mustard I’ve tried. However I haven’t found anything like their sweet n sour sauce. What do other people buy?

FWIW, sweet n sour sauce goes great with cheeseburgers as well as mcnuggets.

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According to this, it’s either eight or nine (depending if you count honey).

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Apparently something similar was asked 7 years ago.

There are some good ideas in that thread. Two home recipes, Mae Ploy Sweet Chili Sauce, Hickory Farm Sweet & Sour, Maggi Sweet Chile Sauce.

I will try some of those, but today I found something else that is extremely close. Taste Pleasers Gourmet Sweet & Sour sauce. It is very close. Sadly it doesn’t come in bottles, only those 1oz packets. They go for $25 plus S&H for 100. If I could find a store that stocks them that wouldn’t be bad priced.

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QFT. I also second Ken’s as a substitute honey mustard sauce. Not too sweet. with just the right balance of flavors.

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The Chili’s restaurant honey mustard dressing in 1989 was the following:

2 parts Miracle Whip
1 part Grey Poupon
1 part Honey

Whisk to combine into a homogenous mixture.

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I’m bumping this because i just tried chik fil-a honey mustard sauce and its quite close to McDonald’s honey mustard sauce.

I’ve noticed a lot of fast food places sell their sauces at grocery stores now. I dont know if there was some patent law ruling or what but chik fil-a, subway, arbys, zaxby, taco bell, buffalo wild wings, etc all sell sauces now.

Sadly no legit McDonald’s sauces. The knockoff bigmac sauces are subpar.

FWIW you can but 1oz sauce packets from McDonald’s for $0.25 each I think, so $3 for 12oz which isnt bad. The issue is i don’t know what the shelf life is.

Anither tactic is buying a few online takeout items and asking for 6 sauce packets.

Theres a german sauce named develey that supposedly tastes like sweet and sour sauce, but itd be cheaper buying the 1oz packets at McDonald’s.