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A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) dated September 10, 2026.The text of the post reads: “With an average saucey:nuggie ratio of .1375, we really are talking about egregious levels of sauce preciousness here. Bonkers that the 10 piece nuggie gets a 0.2 saucey:nuggie ratio, but the 40 piece falls to a baffling 0.1. A 0.2 ratio or below should really be considered borderline criminal.”
Below the text is a chart titled “SAUCE POLICY.”
A guess is they do it for psychological reasons on calorie counts. They know people will justify up to some amount of calories and the sauces round up
Ok yes sauces have calories but who really counts the sauce calories if you are already eating chicken nuggets? Like if you are eating a salad and count the dressing, maybe but the intersection of calorie counting people and chicken nugget eating people can’t be very much
One of the new larger dunking style sauce packets can* be about 125 calories, so it’s not nothing.
Not saying it’s nothing, most people just don’t count it.
Nuggets are actually probably the best choice on the McDonalds menu for calorie counting. Relatively higher in protein and lower in carbs and fat than most other things on the menu. A sauce pot has 20% of the calories that 6 piece has though, so absolutely should be counting the sauces too (if you are indeed counting).
If you’re counting calories and then restricting yourself to salads only, you’re already approaching it in an unhealthy way. At least from places like McDonalds.
I’ll remember this as I eat my sausage egg mcmuffin for breakfast
Actually the breakfast menu is probably even better because eggs are awesome.
Is that still true if I add vodka to the orange juice?
Vodka is one of the lowest-calorie ways to get drunk, so yes.
Sweet! Don’t tell my boss…