Chick-fil-A sauce. You're welcome.

I have been eating at Chick-fil-A as long as I can remember. I used to order the Number One Combo with sweet tea all the time.

My order has evolved over the years and now it's a Number One Combo, no pickles, sweet tea, light ice. (You have to change to grow, you know.)

And for years and years and years -- at least two decades -- that's been it. But over Thanksgiving I went to Chick-fil-A with Patrice, and she told me to order some Chick-fil-A sauce with my Number One Combo. One of her blog readers had recommended it several months before, and she'd gotten hooked on it.

I was skeptical. How could I have gone all those years without knowing that there even WAS a Chick-fil-A sauce? I'd only ever heard of barbecue, honey mustard and Polynesian sauce. How could this Chick-fil-A sauce be so good if I'd never even heard of it?

WELL, INTERNET.

IT IS A MAGICAL SAUCE.

I wish I could tell you what's in it, but I can't remember off the top of my head. But it's like this beyond-delicious hybrid of barbecue sauce and honey mustard, with some other stuff thrown in. Now, I wouldn't dip my chicken or fries in barbecue sauce OR honey mustard, so you wouldn't think I would like this. BUT I DO. I LOVE IT.

Here it is sitting on the console of Grayson's car, because that's when I thought to take pictures of it.



Sometimes when I only have a few minutes to run out and get a quick bite for lunch, I hop in my car and run over to Chick-fil-A and eat it in my van in the parking lot or at my desk.

Here's a close-up so you know EXACTLY what to get next time you go.



This is what it looks like on the inside.



I like to dip my sandwich in it.



I also like to dip my fries in it. And here's a Fun Fact for you: CFA sauce dramatically increases the enjoyment of a substandard CFA "waffle fry," and I put "waffle fry" in quotes because if it has too much potato peel on it, IT DOESN'T FORM A WAFFLE. It turns into some sort of mutant fry. (See below.)



I'm sorry, but I do not like the ones with too much peel on them. The peel is where all the VITAMINS are. Blech. I don't eat at Chick-fil-A for the vitamins. The true waffle fries are the best. (See below.)



True waffle fries are ALSO greatly enhanced by the sauce. I'm not even kidding. MAGICAL.



Another Fun Fact: since you're dipping into this little tub, the occasional CURVED waffle fry is your friend. It dips so nicely and neatly into the tub.


Are you maybe thinking that I've spent way too much time thinking about (and photographing) this? I don't think so. Now that I've discovered it, I feel a duty to educate the poor little lost lambs out there who haven't. (Plus, I've always spent too much time thinking about the minutia of food. See here and here.)

As with my original Number One Combo order, my sauce request has evolved over the past four months. I started out with one tub, and now I'm at two. But let me tell you this: I am WELL on my way to needing three.

YUM.