McDonald’s is taking inspiration from its most creative fans by adding customer-made menu tricks to its fast-food offerings, including a massive triple sandwich made up of three of its most beloved regular-size sandwiches.
Starting next week, McDonald’s customers who can’t choose between a Big Mac, a McChicken and a Filet-o-Fish can order all three combined in a towering sandwich, aptly named Land, Air & Sea, among a few others. unique fast food dishes.
Fans of the chain have long personalized their orders, and with the rise of social media, some of these menu ‘hacks’ have become so popular that they are considered ‘secret menu’ items.
Beginning January 31, McDonald’s is highlighting some of its most beloved secret menu favorites, adding sandwiches like the Hash Brown McMuffin, Surf + Turf and Land, Air & Sea to its menus for a limited time.
Starting next week, McDonald’s customers who can’t choose between a Big Mac, a McChicken and a Filet-o-Fish will be able to order all three combined in one huge sandwich.
Starting January 31, McDonald’s is offering some secret menu favorites like the Hash Brown McMuffin, which is made with a Sausage and Egg McMuffin filled with hash brown
Before, customers could enjoy these dishes but they had to order the different ingredients and assemble them themselves.
Now the chain will offer them by name at participating restaurants in the US and through the app.
For breakfast lovers, there’s the Hash Brown McMuffin, which is made with a Sausage McMuffin with Egg stuffed with hash brown. That clocks in at 620 calories and 39 grams of fat.
There’s also the Crunchy Double, made with a double cheeseburger stuffed with chicken nuggets and topped with barbecue sauce, which provides about 760 calories and 42 grams of fat.
Two of the menu gimmicks center around the Filet-o-Fish.
The Surf + Turf, which combines a Filet-O-Fish and a Double Cheeseburger, will be available exclusively on the McDonald’s app and through McDelivery. It has 830 calories and 42 grams of fat.
There’s also the Crunchy Double, made with a double cheeseburger stuffed with chicken nuggets and topped with barbecue sauce.
The Surf + Turf, which combines a Filet-O-Fish and a Double Cheeseburger, will be available exclusively on the McDonald’s app and through McDelivery.
Before, customers could enjoy these dishes but they had to order the different ingredients and assemble them themselves.
Finally, The Land, Air & Sea features a McChicken sandwich, a Big Mac, and a Filet-o-Fish, all stacked on top of each other with three of the bun halves removed.
With three combo sandwiches, it’s a whopping 1,330 calories and 69 grams of total fat (when all the muffin pieces are included).
“From hip-hop icons to holiday queens, everyone has a unique order from McDonald’s, including our everyday customers,” Jennifer Healan, vice president of marketing, brand content and engagement for McDonald’s USA, said in a news release.
‘This campaign shows that it has never been “our menu”, the menu belongs to our fans. We’re excited to celebrate them in a bigger way than ever by including their delicious tricks, as seen on social media, on our menus.”
McDonald’s has promoted menu gimmicks several times in recent years.
In November 2021, to celebrate the Egg McMuffin’s 50th anniversary, the chain shared some fan-favorite ways to enhance the breakfast sandwich with add-ons like brownies, a McChicken burger, and sauces like syrup and jam, though no added none explicitly. to the menu.
In November 2021, to celebrate the Egg McMuffin’s 50th anniversary, the chain shared “hacks” to improve the sandwich, including adding hash browns, bacon, tomato and sauces.
Customers can skip the English muffins and add two hash browns (left), while adding a McChicken burger and hot sauce makes a ‘Sweet Chicken Sammie’ (right)
In January 2020, Kim Kardashian surprised users by revealing that she asks for honey to dip her chicken nuggets.
The ‘trick’ recipes included adding bacon and tomato to create the ‘BET’ or Bacon, Egg and Tomato McMuffin.
Adding hash browns and grape jelly makes an ‘HB & J’, while adding a McChicken burger and hot sauce makes a ‘Sweet Chicken Sammie’.
Or customers can skip the English muffins altogether and make an egg, Canadian bacon and cheese sandwich between two hash browns.
In January 2020, McDonald’s also introduced an advertising campaign highlighting orders from celebrities such as Kanye West, Keith Urban, and Whoopi Goldberg.
While the orders were almost all classic, Kim Kardashian surprised social media users by revealing that she orders honey for dipping her chicken nuggets.
Several other ‘secret menu’ items have become beloved by fans over the years, earning their own nicknames.
The McGangBang is one of the most infamous items on the McDonald’s secret menu. The burger mixes a McDouble with a McChicken sandwich.
There’s also the Monster Mac, which is a Big Mac with six extra meat patties.
Once quite elusive, the MC10:35 combines breakfast and main menu items, and is named after the time it had to be ordered, between the breakfast and lunch windows.
It’s made with a Double Cheeseburger, Egg Sausage McMuffin, and Egg Bacon McMuffin, but now that some breakfast items are available all day at US locations, it’s a little easier to get your hands on. .
Meanwhile, Big McChicken requires ordering a Big Mac and getting rid of all three pieces of bread. Those are replaced with three McChicken burgers, and everything is covered in Big Mac sauce.
On the sweet side, a McCrepe is made with a pancake folded into a taco shape and filled with a yogurt parfait, granola and syrup.
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