The original barbecue was just called “barbecue.”
Looks like the steak is staying in the fridge till tomorrow night because
I scored Hot Mustard!
Dang - it’s probably been available by me for a long time but I stopped asking for it years ago when I was told at multiple restaurants that it had been discontinued.
And I can never get those years of my life back. There will always be that gaping hole in my Hot Mustard timeline. Nothing will ever truly erase the mental anguish I’ve suffered at the hands of corporate indifference.
But at least I can try to do my level best in making up for it - one beautiful pack of sauce at a time.
Starting right now.
Gotta go - I have a gut to stuff, thanks to this thread.
I’m glad a thread I started has brought such joy into the world 
Don’t call me a hero even though I’m totally a hero.
Sorrow.
When Chicken McNuggets first came out, I remember barbeque sauce being the only kind of sauce offered. But memory is fuzzy, and so far I haven’t found a cite to confirm or deny this. Anybody?
I don’t know what you mean to prove with that photo of the current lineup of sauces when I specified that the original lineup of four sauces had just hot mustard, sweet and sour, honey, and barbecue. Just one barbecue. When you’re talking about the original sauces, there’s no ambiguity, because there’s just one barbecue.
Honey is what I ask for first.
2nd choice is ranch. That’s what I get at Popeyes for nuggets.
There certaiy wasn’t a chipotle barbecue in the 80s. That (chipotle as a mainstream flavoring in the US) didn’t become a thing until at least the late 90s or possibly early 00s. And I don’t know when McD’s jumped on the bandwagon. It’s possible it was called tangy barbecue, but there was only one barbecue sauce for a long time, hence no need to differentiate.
McDonalds McNuggets: agree with OP… Sweet 'N Sour sauce is far and away the best choice. Through an usual series of circumstances I’ve had McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s chicken nuggets recently and McDonald’s Sweet ‘N Sour sauce is significantly better than the other two chains’. Best nuggets, too, although points docked for being too pepper-y.
Store-bought chicken nuggets baked at home: General Tso’s sauce. I don’t have these often at home but I keep a bottle of Iron Chef branded General Tso’s sauce on hand for when I do.
Houlihan’s: including Houlihan’s here as a public service. I wind up at Houlihan’s often with coworkers because there is one close to where I work. Houlihan’s is a great place to grab a beer and some bar food but I had a terrible time finding something I like on the dinner menu. Ultimately I landed on their Thai chile chicken fingers as my go-to meal. If you ever get dragged to Houlihan’s, I appreciate that you don’t want to be an adult ordering chicken fingers but order the Thai chile ones and thank me later.
Buffalo and Ranch.
Then I dunk the nugget in each one so I have a creamy-ranchy buffalo flavor. The best.
And now I want McNuggets…damn you!
The first four were BBQ, Sweet and Sour, Honey and Hot Mustard. Not 100% sure about the mustard the fourth may have been something else. Very shortly after introducing Nuggets they made two Asian sauces and Hot Mustard may have been introduced then but positive about the other three and that there were four total. S&S was always my go to from day one.
In all my McNuggetting, I never noticed that there are actually four shapes of Chicken McNugget. I just thought they were all roughly some random “nugget” shape. I guess I should have known better, since there is a machine stamping them out.
ETA: And those four flavors sound right to me. I’m not sure I remember any Asian sauces in the 80s beside the sweet & sour (and I guess hot mustard). What were they?
Crushed up Vicodin.
Or, lacking unregulated narcotics, ketchup. Or, if I’m feeling saucy, steak sauce.
Sadness
The blood of my enemies!!
I usually get mine drive-through so no sauce. In the restaurant, plenty of salt but no sauce. Frozen nuggets baked at home, mayonnaise.
See post #25. 
Interesting since this zombie was bumped, I actually went on some dates with a guy who dipped them in ketchup. That was interesting, I thought that was what 5 year olds did.
I got hot mustard at McDonald’s yesterday. It’s on my McDonald’s app.