The McDonald's Burger Hack That Puts Chicken Nuggets In The Spotlight

Creating delicious — okay, and sometimes outlandish — new items by hacking the standard McDonald's menu is a pastime nearly as old as the Golden Arches. McDonald's has even leaned into virality with a limited-time promotion that allowed customers to order some menu hacks items by name, sometimes provided they were okay with assembling the final product themselves. There was the Surf + Turf, for instance, which combined a Filet-O-Fish with a double cheeseburger. We're a bit dubious on that one, but though the promotion may not be active anymore, you could certainly order both menu items and do some combining if you remain curious.

More compelling is the Crunchy Double, which combined two great tastes: a double cheeseburger and chicken nuggets (which McDonald's didn't invent, by the way), all slathered with sweet and tangy barbecue sauce. Mixing chicken and beef may sound sketchy, but the result is actually pretty darn tasty. Best of all, since employees never actually made the franken-sandwich for you, this is an evergreen hack that you can continue ordering long after the promotion has gone away.

Making a Crunchy Double is actually pretty simple. All you need is an order of McNuggets — sources can't seem to agree on whether you want four or six to get the job done, so choose based on your willingness to play Tetris with your food — a double cheeseburger, and a packet of barbecue sauce. Simply remove the bottom bun from your burger and arrange the nuggets underneath the beef patties. Squeeze a generous layer of sauce all over the chicken and reassemble the sandwich. Presto! You have a thick, meaty meal that combines the moo and the squawk to produce something great.

Reviewers mention that the beef and chicken are both seasoned sufficiently so as to not overpower each other. The result is distinctly Western-flavored thanks to the addition of barbecue sauce, as well as very filling. Other social media suggestions include stuffing your Crunchy Double further with some golden fries, which are McDonald's best-selling item, or swapping out the barbecue for some Big Mac sauce. Again, you are putting this sandwich together on your own, so there's no need to be concerned about the depth of customization.