The secret behind one of the fast food chain’s most popular item — the Big Mac — is back in stores, but you better get in quick.
McDonald’s has 144,000 bottles of Big Mac Special Sauce for sale in participating restaurants across Australia.
Price may be steep and yes, people say the Coles equivalent is similar but all proceeds goes to charity.
The sauce is a desired item in short supply for a limited time. Is this not a bargain?
144,000 bottles is a lot of sauce
For you, maybe 😀
What's the appeal here, what are the upvotes for?
For virtue signalling
Mac Lives Matter
the fact families of sick kids have somewhere to stay if our of town and they visit their sick kids …. they get the bargain.
Feels like sock puppeting
Is there cashback ?
The closest you would get, would be cashback from a credit/debit card
Trott on. Who could be bothered getting their knickers in a knot over this.
This is the problem with the internet…. it gives people like you a voice. If you don't like it, don't comment.
Not that Coles stole the recipe or anything … $2.75
https://shop.coles.com.au/a/a-national/product/coles-special…
Tartar sauce mixed with thousand island.
you're welcome
Whilst I'm all for charity and good causes, I'm always skeptical about "proceeds to charity" type sales.
The consumer is out of pocket 100% and the retailer is out of pocket 0%. All their costs are covered buy the consumers total payment. That is not charity when the sole contributor is the consumer.
How about maccas contribute 50% of each bottle sale to charity, that would be a deal I would happily be in for.
They give in partial operating cost and wages, cut into their profits and give to charity. Because that is what the consumer is already doing from their $12.
No real charity if the consumer is paying total cost and maccas contribute zero.
I so agree on this. Sick of Woolworths at the check-out pestering me to donate $2. How's about I donate $2, and you (Woolworths in this case) match the donation - then we have a deal.
Now I feel like a grinch for complaining about this.
Whilst I'm all for charity and good causes, I'm always skeptical about "proceeds to charity" type sales.
They clearly state it all goes to RMH - having stayed there many years ago, it's a terrific charity.
How about maccas contribute 50% of each bottle sale to charity, that would be a deal I would happily be in for. They give in partial operating cost and wages, cut into their profits and give to charity.
Err they pay for the sauce, packaging, wages and other on-costs to sell it for $12, of which 100% goes to RMH.
No real charity if the consumer is paying total cost and maccas contribute zero.
Sigh
Err they pay for the sauce, packaging, wages and other on-costs to sell it for $12, of which 100% goes to RMH.
Err the profits go to "charity" ie. WE are paying for the sauce, packaging wages and other on-costs. It's not costing McDonalds a single cent. $12 of each sale is NOT going to "charity".
In fact they'll be claiming juicing tax incentives and their charity will benefit from more donations to cover their "operating costs".
They are donating $2 from each Big Mac sale. $2 to charity and $0 extra for you.
The secret is clown tears
Having just used the Ronald McDonald House recently I can’t praise the service it offers enough. Very thankful to McDonald’s and those who donate directly or indirectly and obviously the volunteers too.
Personally not gonna buy it because I'm not a fan of Big Macs.. But still props on maccas for donating the proceeds to charity
People will still buy the sauce even without the charity benefit anyway, and yes there's also the option to buy Coles' and donate to non-Maccas charity
'All proceeds to charity' aside, $12 for a bottle of Big Mac sauce is more or less RRP and not a bargain.
OzDonation
Am I the only one who found big Mac sauce taste like vomit..
seems so, buy a bottle and do a side by side comparison, your vomit and burger sauce, and report back.
Trust me, tried that.. 😂
No you haven’t.
Must be, sounds like you need to see a doctor.
My stance is that it'll actually get people donating. So I'm for it.
Example:
Say if maybe even only 80% of each bottle goes to charity. They sell all 144,000 bottles. That's 144000 x 12 x 0.8 = $1,382,400
They aren't going to get that much just asking people to donate.
There is no way in hell 80% of a retail sale price of $12 is going to charity.
It’s fairly likely that Maccas are only donating NET PROFIT, which subtracts cost of goods and operating expenses (presumably including marketing and advertising for the event). They then donate the remainder and claim a tax credit, so it actually should MAKE them money.
There is no way in hell 80% of a retail sale price of $12 is going to charity
So you think it costs more than $2.40 a bottle? Note: advertising/marketing costs are being spread over 144,000 bottles.
so it actually should MAKE them money.
Well, yeah. It probably will. But I can deal with that - they are doing enough to help meanwhile.
If a bottle of sauce isn't to your style, there's Big Mac socks which cost $5. Similar story there.
Or if you want to be all high and mighty (which is incredibly easy to pretend online) you can donate directly. Careful which charities you donate to though, because they are covering their advertising/marketing costs too.
Well I guess this is the problem. Maybe Maccas should be required to disclose what % of the price is actually going to be donated. Please note, this is not a maccas-specific issue - it is a donation industry issue.
You might recall the big drama a couple of years ago when it was revealed that many professional fundraising companies take more than half of your donation for causes like cancer charities/medical research etc. In other cases, they have entered into a contract with the charity whereby they get ALL of the donation for the first 12 months, so if someone cancels their monthly subscription before that time the charity gets NOTHING. It's a goddamn disgrace.
All professional fundraising activities should be required to disclose in a simple, prominent way (eg a standardised % badge, or star rating etc) how much of the donation goes to the charity.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/11/26/charity-fundrai…
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/report-on-commission-b…
My concern here is that people donate their money believing most of it actually goes to the cause being advertised as the purpose of the fundraising, whereas in reality that is almost always NOT the case.
McDonald's makes more people sick than it can help through charity. Of course any charity is good but it would be a net gain for world health if McDonald's just shut down.
It created perceptually customers who always come back for more.
Is there a list of participating stores?
Not a list but you can check each store in the app to see if it is selling it.
Most of McDonald's sauce packets with labels are made in China now. Makes me wonder if their bulk sauces like BigMac sauce is made in locally?
The Big Mac sauces are produced in VIC.
Can you take a photo of the back of the bottle to prove this?
The amount of butthurt here is amazing. So many people getting angry over an inoffensive post about sauce.
For all the comments about buying a sauce for charity, the likes of Ronald McDonald house have done far more good work over the course of its existence than over the course of your lives trawling for online bargains.
I pass my 'popular comment' badge here to you.
This deal just really shows up some people on this site.
They do a tremendous job, as do many other charity groups.
Could probably argue they cost the health system far more than any good they do… the Catholic Church does good but it hardly offsets its wrongs.
Just put it in a drip to me veins plz
Wouldn't you want to taste it?
I saw a doco once that told me its just mayo left out in the sun…
it is Kraft Thousand Island Dressing.
Was $12.50 last year.