The Easy Ordering Tip To Make Sonic's Chicken Sandwich BBQ-Style

These days, if you're ordering straight from a fast food restaurant menu and eating your meal exactly the way it comes, you're living in the past! Every day, thanks to social media, we're learning about new secret menu items, ways to customize your order, and tips to hack the system and create a fast food meal that's tailored to your exact taste. If you happen to be a BBQ sauce fan, oh my, do we have the Sonic ordering tip for you.

Sonic is an underrated chain with a simple crispy chicken sandwich on its menu. It's a breaded piece of chicken with lettuce, pickles, and mayo on a brioche bun. Nothing wrong with that. But if you're a BBQ fan, what you're going to want to do is add several packets of BBQ sauce to your chicken sandwich when you order it. On the website, you can add up to three condiments for no extra charge. Then, remove the chicken fillet from the sandwich, place it either in the foil sandwich wrapper or ask for an empty chicken tender box, and empty those BBQ sauce packets right onto the chicken. Shake it up to coat the chicken evenly, then return it to your bun for a sauced-up, BBQ-style chicken sandwich.

On our list of 30 fast food sauces, ranked worst to best, Sonic had the best BBQ sauce of the whole bunch. Sweet, vinegary, salty, garlicky, and smoky, this is a sauce that deserves to be smothered all over your chicken sandwich. And that kind of quality is quite a feat because Sonic ranks among the chains with the biggest selection of sauces. The fact that its BBQ sauce is that good is really very impressive.

Indeed, there are 11 saucy condiments available to add to your Sonic chicken sandwich order. They include staples like ketchup, mustard, mayo, and the delish BBQ. But there's also Asian-style sweet chili sauce, ranch, jalapeño ranch, honey mustard, buffalo sauce, relish, and something called groovy sauce, which some customers describe as an herby ranch with a slight sriracha kick.

If BBQ isn't your jam, try the sauce coating hack with buffalo, ranch, or even sweet chili sauce. Some customers find Sonic's chicken sandwich on its own a little dry or rate it as a B-tier option, but this honestly makes it a perfect candidate to drench it in sauce. You're not overpowering a super high-quality fried chicken sandwich, and you're adding tons of flavor and moisture. So go forth and get saucy!