# Best Sandwich chain sauce **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 13, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717 "2023-02-13T16:01:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/1 "2023-02-13T16:01:31Z")
Jersey Mikes - “The Juice” (I know it’s a mix of ingredients, but so will just about all of these essentially) Subway - Southwest Sauce ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/2 "2023-02-13T16:06:49Z")
McDonalds Secret (Big Mac) Sauce. Followed by a mix of Arby’s Horsey Sauce and Arby’s Sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/3 "2023-02-13T16:20:01Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > McDonalds Secret (Big Mac) Sauce. Isn’t that just Thousand Island salad dressing? If not, seems close enough. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/4 "2023-02-13T16:31:54Z")
There are tiny pieces of pickle in it. I’ll go with horsey sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/5 "2023-02-13T16:35:08Z")
Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients - 1 cup mayonnaise - 1/4 cup yellow onion, minced - 2 tablespoons ketchup - 2 tablespoons **sweet pickle relish** \* - 1 teaspoon lemon juice - 1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika - 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/6 "2023-02-13T16:50:22Z")
I’ve never had a Chik-Fil-A sandwich, but somewhere I picked up on a supposed copycat recipe for their sandwich sauce. I wouldn’t say it’s the all-time _ **best** _ sandwich sauce, but it is pretty tasty and simple to make when putting together an impromptu chicken sandwich out of some leftover rotisserie Costco chiken or whatever. Mix 1/3 mayo, 1/3 mustard (ordinary yellow seems to work best in this case) and 1/3 KC-style BBQ sauce. Cut top of a chunk of crusty French bread and hinge it open. Add chicken and a slice or two of Provolone. Put in toaster oven for a few minutes. Remove, add pickle slices, thinly-sliced red onion and erzatz CFA sauce. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/7 "2023-02-13T16:51:43Z")
While similar, they are **not** the same. Even if they were, I don’t see that as a disqualifier. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/8 "2023-02-13T16:52:46Z")
Not a disqualifier at all. Just doesn’t seem a very big secret either for a “secret sauce.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/9 "2023-02-13T17:12:03Z")
Thanks guys, keep 'em coming. What I spend every weekday on lunch is stupid and I am tired of it also not even being good. So my bread machine and I have been at home this month perfecting the lunch sandwich. What really focuses the experience is the ‘special sauce’ a place puts on their stuff so I thought, ‘well hell, I can buy that or make something even better’. So here I am asking you good people. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/10 "2023-02-13T17:17:49Z")
OK, deep secret here. (whisper)Mix Ranch with BBQ sauce.(/whisper) Claimjumper uses that mix on their Southwest Chicken Salad. I make it at home and slather it on all sorts of sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/11 "2023-02-13T18:10:19Z")
Totally agree with Jersey Mike’s oil and vinegar. Absolutely perfect. Arby’s sauces are both good and compliment the beef well. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/12 "2023-02-13T18:26:42Z")
Triple O sauce from White Spot. It’s just a mix of mayonnaise and red relish and it is freaking wonderful on their burgers. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/13 "2023-02-13T18:56:43Z")
Wendy’s hot sauce. It’s normally served with their chili but always available on request. Very tasty and unlike any other. White Castle hot sauce and Dusseldorf mustard packets. Not exceptional in any other context but just what I’m looking for during my annual slider fix. It’s not a sandwich place but special shoutout to Taco Bell’s iconic sauce packets. Hot and Fire have a special place in my heart. My childhood memories of Arby’s Sauce and Horsey Sauce are glowing like embers in a sinus cavity but they’re too sweet for me now. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/14 "2023-02-13T22:35:16Z")
I’ve only been to Chick-fil-A once, at an airport, and I don’t think I had their sauce. But…recently my grocery pick-up order had an unexpected bonus in it - a bottle of the sauce. Hoo boy, is it good. I suspect there is some sugar added, so I should perhaps stay away from it, but that is a damn tasty sauce. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/15 "2023-02-14T00:02:44Z")
I was going to mention Horsey Sauce. Their BBQ sauce is pretty good, too, but Horsey is great. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/16 "2023-02-14T00:34:49Z")
This!! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/17 "2023-02-14T00:40:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > McDonalds Secret (Big Mac) Sauce. Was it ever actually called “secret sauce”? I just remember “special sauce” (as in “two all-beef patties **special sauce** lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun”). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/18 "2023-02-14T00:46:41Z")
They call it “Big Mac Special Sauce” on the packets. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/19 "2023-02-14T00:55:08Z")
It’s a small chain, but The Greek Pita makes this “pink sauce” (a garlic-yogurt sauce) that is _ **fantastic** _. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717/20 "2023-02-14T04:27:23Z")
# Best Sandwich chain sauce I use a knife. A chainsaw seems a bit overkill. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sandwich-chain-sauce/979717.md?page=2)