{"id":11070,"date":"2012-01-15T18:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=11070"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:34:40","slug":"news-mcdonalds-new-hot-habanero-sauce-could-make-your-face-as-red-as-ronalds-hair-nose-and-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/15\/news-mcdonalds-new-hot-habanero-sauce-could-make-your-face-as-red-as-ronalds-hair-nose-and-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: McDonald&#8217;s New Hot Habanero Sauce Could Make Your Face As Red As Ronald&#8217;s Hair, Nose, and Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomhilton\/5296812927\/\" title=\"Haba\u00c3\u00b1eros by Tom Hilton, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5170\/5296812927_7701881e2b.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Haba\u00c3\u00b1eros\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Update: <a href=http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/10\/review-mcdonalds-hot-habanero-sauce><\/a>Click here to read our McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hot Habanero Sauce review<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to Justin over at An Immovable Feast&#8230;well, actually, according to Justin&#8217;s brother, <a href=\"http:\/\/animmovablefeast.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/three-day-weekend-eats-part-2-in-search.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s has released a new spicy habanero sauce<\/a> for you to dip your McNuggets, McBites, Chicken Selects, or if you&#8217;re daring, your tongue in.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/animmovablefeast.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/mcdonalds-hot-habanero-sauce.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read a review<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Habanero chili peppers are rated 100,000-350,000 on the Scoville scale, making them more than ten times hotter than a jalape\u00c3\u00b1o pepper and something you might see contestants eat on Fear Factor now that it&#8217;s back again.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a major fast food chain has tried to incorporate habanero into their menu. Last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/26\/news-asses-beware-carls-jr-testing-a-bacon-cheeseburger-with-habanero-sauce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carl&#8217;s Jr. tested a burger with habanero sauce<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure if McDonald&#8217;s is testing the sauce or is planning a nationwide rollout, but Southern California, where these sauces have been found, is one of areas where McDonald&#8217;s tests new menu items.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve tried the new McDonald&#8217;s Hot Habanero Sauce, let us know how frightened our mouths should be in the comments below. Also, where you found them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update: Pictures of the sauce in the comments below.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<div xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomhilton\/5296812927\/\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomhilton\/5296812927><\/a>Image via flickr user Tom Hilton \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Click here to read our McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hot Habanero Sauce review According to Justin over at An Immovable Feast&#8230;well, actually, according to Justin&#8217;s brother, McDonald&#8217;s has released a new spicy habanero sauce for you to dip your McNuggets, McBites, Chicken Selects, or if you&#8217;re daring, your tongue in. Update: Click here to read a review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11284,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/10\/review-mcdonalds-hot-habanero-sauce\/","url_meta":{"origin":11070,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: McDonald&#8217;s Hot Habanero Sauce","author":"Marvo","date":"February 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey! 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