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Chick-fil-A Is Releasing A New Sauce For The First Time In 10 Years

Southern Living reports the chain's first new sauce in a decade is on the way, and fans have noticed; the waiting list is apparently a parking lot.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorChick-fil-A is releasing a new sauce, its first in ten years.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLola Cruz is outside a restaurant where the wait has been somewhat longer than the drive-through.

  3. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentHank, I'm in a parking lot at dawn, and I have covered sieges where the line moved faster.

  4. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentBehind me, forty people are holding the line for a decade of the same sauces.

  5. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSir, you've waited ten years for this. How are you holding up?

  6. Marcus DellwoodMa'am, I have been rationing the old sauces since twenty sixteen.

  7. Marcus DellwoodI started using one packet per nugget. It was a dark time for my nuggets.

  8. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentYou heard it here.

  9. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentA decade of rationing is ending, and nobody behind me will say what the sauce tastes like, because nobody has tried it.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the whole story is that it's a sauce.

  11. Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentConfirmed, Hank. It's a sauce, and the nuggets have been informed.

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