McDonald’s is proving that it has the sauce with its newest menu item.
The fast food giant announced Tuesday that McDonald’s Caesar sauce will be available as a limited-time option on U.S. restaurant menus starting July 21. The sauce will be offered with chicken items on the menu.
According to McDonald’s Menu Spotter site, the new sauce is a “creamy, garlicky parmesan blend infused with notes of lemon.”
Participating stores in the U.S. will add the sauce to their chicken snack wrap options, making the Caesar Snack Wrap an option. The snack, which costs $2.99, is made up of a crispy chicken strip topped with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce and wrapped in a tortilla.
McDonald’s also announced that the McCrispy Strips, which just debuted on their menu in May, are now being made crispier with a new panko-coating because of suggestions from fans. The chicken strips can be paired with the new Caesar sauce.
Another option to try out the new sauce is with the Bacon Caesar McCrispy Sandwich, which is the chain’s signature chicken sandwich topped with Caesar sauce, bacon, lettuce, Roma tomatoes, onions and crinkle-cut pickles on a toasted potato roll.
The sauce will also be available to order a la carte for dipping and dunking at participating restaurants.
While Caesar salad fans are excited for the new menu item, McDonald’s sparked backlash over the apparent usage of artificial intelligence in the video announcing the sauce. The video shows a woman opening Caesar sauce packets and dumping them into a glass jar. The woman’s face is not shown once. That, combined with the smoothness of her skin, tipped fans off to the potential use of AI — though McDonald’s has not commented on the claims.
“Why do companies use AI for the simplest of concepts, anyone could have done this commercial,” one person complained in the comments of the Instagram post. Another added, “wasting water using AI to generate a video of wasting plastic. we’re doomed.”
The company did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
Caesar sauce was announced on the same day that another new item hit menus across the country — the BT21 Happy Meal, which collaborates with the popular character brand that was made by the K-pop group BTS.
McDonald’s recently overhauled its value menu to feature a range of items costing less than $3 and introduced new drinks in an attempt to revitalize the iconic chain, which is among the largest in the world.
