CBO (Chicken Bacon Onion)
The name is the entire pitch: chicken, bacon, onion. Crisp fried onions, cheese, lettuce and a creamy sauce pile onto a crispy chicken fillet until it barely closes. It shows up for limited runs in several European countries, and each return brings a small wave of excitement online. Richer than anything on the permanent chicken menu and impossible to eat politely.
The story
The CBO was developed in Europe and was written up by The Guardian as a new McDonald’s sandwich in March 2010. Its biggest following turned out to be in Brazil: after a test in 23 restaurants in Brasília in late 2010, it went national there on 18 July 2011. When McDonald’s Brazil dropped it in November 2017, saying the special bun with bacon pieces and the peppered cheese were no longer produced locally, fans filed complaints, started petitions and joined a Facebook “protest for the return of the CBO” of around 60,000 people. It came back for a limited run in November 2019, and in 2023 the McCrispy Chicken Legend reused almost the same recipe.
What’s inside
- crispy chicken fillet
- bacon
- crispy fried onions
- cheese
- shredded lettuce
- creamy sauce
- bun
Make it at home
My copycat first, then everything I built on top of it.- My copycat
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McDonald's CBO (Copycat)
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