Photo: McDonald'sMcCrispy
McDonald’s late entry into the chicken sandwich wars, and a respectable one. A whole fried fillet on a buttered potato roll with crinkle-cut pickles, and that is it: no lettuce, no sauce. It is clearly modelled on the famous chicken-chain sandwiches and does not quite reach them, but the crust is solid and the pickles do real work. Add a sauce packet if it runs dry.
The story
In 2019 Popeyes launched a fried chicken sandwich, sold out of it in two weeks and set off an argument that ran for years about who in America made the best one. Every chain answered. McDonald’s took until February 2021, then launched three at once — plain, spicy and deluxe — on a potato roll with crinkle-cut pickles, its first chicken sandwich built from scratch in decades. The line was renamed McCrispy in 2022 and is the closest thing the chain has to a permanent reply to Chick-fil-A.
What’s inside
- crispy chicken fillet
- crinkle-cut pickles
- buttered potato roll
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the McCrispy yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares chicken
ABQ Hot Chicken Sandwich - Shares chicken
KFC Classic Chicken Sandwich (Copycat) - Shares chicken
KFC Spicy Chicken Sandwich (Copycat) - Shares chicken
McDonald's Deluxe McCrispy (Copycat)
The McCrispy on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
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Nobody sells more burgers. McDonald’s began as a single drive-in run by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, and became a burger machine in 1948, when the brothers threw out most of the menu and rebuilt the kitchen like a production line. Ray Kroc, a salesman who sold them milkshake mixers, started franchising it in 1955 and later bought the brothers out.
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