Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. You may have heard something about McDonald’s serving something call Szechuan sauce and seen people are making a big deal about it. Want to know what’s up? We’re here to help.
That’s right, Szechuan sauce is back at McDonald’s for a limited time, starting on Thursday March 31.
That may sound like a fun little promotion that will come and go and we’ll all move on with our lives.
But … this is a HUGE DEAL. And we’ve got to dive into why and how we got here: