Putting softer buns and extra Big Mac sauce on Big Macs and has tweaked cooking process to ‘get hotter, meltier cheese’
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Brandon Sapienza
Published Apr 17, 2023 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 1 minute read
A McDonald’s Big Mac. Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images McDonald’s Corp. is bringing back the Hamburglar to help promote minor changes it’s made to the recipes for some of its burger offerings.
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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The Hamburglar, a classic mascot of the fast-food chain second only to Ronald McDonald, returned in the company’s newest TV commercial, the fast-food chain said Monday.
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The character is being used to promote improvements to the Big Mac, McDouble, and the classic cheeseburger, double cheeseburger and hamburger. In addition to extra Big Mac sauce on Big Macs and softer buns, the company said it tweaked its cooking process to “get hotter, meltier cheese,” and changed its grill settings in order to achieve a better sear.
It’s not the first time McDonald’s has revived the Hamburglar to promote certain menu items. In 2015 it remade the character into a bearded hipster with a trench coat who had a craving for a new sirloin burger. McDonald’s restaurants phased out the limited-time menu item when it expired later that year.
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The new changes were initially tested in Australia, Canada, and Belgium and have been introduced in certain western U.S. cities. They will be rolled out to the entire United States by 2024, McDonald’s said.
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