McDonald’s Has a New Angel Reese BBQ Sauce and a New Quarter Pounder

Simply eight months on from her WNBA debut, Chicago Sky energy ahead Angel Reese is having an unimaginable profession, breaking the league’s single-season rebounding file in September and gracing the duvet of Vogue’s challenge this month. However very quickly, she’s set to obtain maybe the very best honor of all of them: an official McDonald’s meal, accessible nationwide beginning February 10. 

The Angel Reese Particular will include a limited-time-only BBQ Bacon Quarter Pounder with Cheese, medium fries, and a medium drink of alternative. The adverts show the burger and fries paired with a Hello-C Orange Lavaburst as a result of as Reese tells Meals & Wine, that’s her go-to order. 

“I bear in mind begging my mother to take me to McDonald’s once I was a child, and the way I might do further chores to earn my McDonald’s cash for the week!” Reese says. 

Celeb meals have develop into an enormous foot visitors and income generator for McDonald’s lately, beginning with the Travis Scott Meal in 2020. These meals hardly ever, if ever, comprise brand-new objects — Scott’s innovation was pairing the fries with BBQ sauce for dipping — however they faucet into every star’s preexisting fan base and cater to these customers with customized merch collections. 

On this case, the Angel Reese Particular does function one thing novel — a brand new sort of BBQ Sauce, one which McDonald’s guarantees is “as daring as Bayou Barbie herself.” It’s the unifying component of a combo described as “a saucy trifecta that blends candy, savory, and a contact of spice.” This would be the first McDonald’s meal launched in partnership with a feminine athlete, a proven fact that fills Reese with pleasure.

“Seeing these McDonald’s all-American commercials that includes a few of the best athletes impressed me [as a kid], and now, as an all-American alum myself, it’s wild to suppose how far I’ve come,” Reese says. “It was such a full-circle second to now have my very own meal.”

In its announcement, McDonald’s emphasizes that the Angel Reese Particular is only the start, because the 12 months can be stuffed with “applications that encourage followers and construct upon our bond with the basketball neighborhood.” The campaigns can be devoted to basketball historical past, in addition to specializing in rising stars within the sport. Perhaps these athletes, like Reese, will get to advertise the menu objects they love most.

“I’ve all the time been a QPC girlie via and thru,” says Reese.