--- title: McDonald's is Testing Sriracha Big Macs in Just 1 City description: McDonalds is testing out a hotter—and hipper—Big Mac by adding Sriracha. canonical: https://time.com/4569708/mcdonalds-sriracha-big-mac-columbus-ohio/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-14T15:18:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:38.483Z og:title: Want a Sriracha Big Mac? 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Here's the One City You Can Buy One twitter:description: McDonalds is testing the new burger in this city twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea26bb7bdc4b19d/6988ae5b656a3f8c28bcdd83/sriracha-big-macs-mcdonalds-testing-ohio.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # McDonald's Is Testing Sriracha Big Macs in Columbus, Ohio  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 14, 2016 3:18 PM UTC  FILE - In this Oct 29, 2013 file photo, Sriracha chili sauce bottles are produced at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. eat fiends ended the year angsting over the future of Sriracha, the trendy hot sauce with the rooster on the bottle. The trouble started when people living near the Irwindale, Calif.-based Huy Fong Foods complained that odors from its Sriracha manufacturing plant were burning their eyes. A court ordered the company to halt production until the odors could be brought under control. Then last month even shipments of already bottled Sriracha were stopped after California health officials enforced stricter guidelines that require the company to age the sauces 35 days before shipping. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) FILE - In this Oct 29, 2013 file photo, Sriracha chili sauce bottles are produced at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. eat fiends ended the year angsting over the future of Sriracha, the trendy hot sauce with the rooster on the bottle. The trouble started when people living near the Irwindale, Calif.-based Huy Fong Foods complained that odors from its Sriracha manufacturing plant were burning their eyes. A court ordered the company to halt production until the odors could be brought under control. Then last month even shipments of already bottled Sriracha were stopped after California health officials enforced stricter guidelines that require the company to age the sauces 35 days before shipping. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)Nick Ut—AP  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Nov 14, 2016 3:18 PM UTC McDonalds is testing out a hotter—and hipper—Big Mac by adding Sriracha. The fast food chain is adding the popular hot sauce to its main burger in 126 stores in [Columbus, Ohio](http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/11/14/mcdonalds-tests-sriracha-products-here.html), _BuzzFeed News_ reports. People there can also order a Sriracha dipping sauce for fries, McNuggets or whatever else they want to dip into the cult condiment. McDonald’s had tested out Sriracha sandwiches and sauce at stores in Southern California and Seattle [earlier this year](http://news.mcdonalds.com/Corporate/Feature-Stories-Articles/2016/SPICE-IT-UP-AT-MCDONALD-S-WITH-SIGNATURE-SRIRACHA). > [](https://twitter.com/McDonalds%5FSoCal/status/758032997643722753) This is the first time the chain has swapped out the sacred Big Mac components for an entirely new flavor profile, a McDonald’s spokesperson told BuzzFeed. \[[_BuzzFeed News_](https://www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/mcdonalds-is-testing-a-sriracha-big-mac-now?utm%5Fterm=.svOMDDmDv#.nqdp00a0L)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4569708/mcdonalds-sriracha-big-mac-columbus-ohio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4569708/mcdonalds-sriracha-big-mac-columbus-ohio/"},"headline":"McDonald's Is Testing Sriracha Big Macs in Columbus, Ohio","datePublished":"2016-11-14T15:18:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:38.483Z","description":"For now, only a few can order the new burger or Sriracha dipping sauce","url":"https://time.com/4569708/mcdonalds-sriracha-big-mac-columbus-ohio/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","viral","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea26bb7bdc4b19d/6988ae5b656a3f8c28bcdd83/sriracha-big-macs-mcdonalds-testing-ohio.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ea26bb7bdc4b19d/6988ae5b656a3f8c28bcdd83/sriracha-big-macs-mcdonalds-testing-ohio.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"sriracha big macs mcdonalds testing ohio","caption":"sriracha big macs mcdonalds testing ohio","creditText":"Nick Ut—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4569708/mcdonalds-sriracha-big-mac-columbus-ohio/","name":"McDonald's Is Testing Sriracha Big Macs in Columbus, Ohio"}}]}] ```