I tried to eat Big Mac sauce with every meal for a week

"Everything tastes better when it tastes like the Big Mac."

It's the claim plastered on the back of the limited edition bottles of Big Mac sauce, which went on sale at 40 McDonald's stores in Australia on Jan. 23. We at Mashable Australia got our hands on a bottle and decide to test out that claim — by adding the Thousand Island-esque condiment to every meal during a working week.

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Monday

Breakfast: Avocado on toast, 8/10

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Who doesn't love Big Macs for breakfast? Take some slices of avocado and add it to sourdough toast, before smothering Big Mac sauce on top. It turns out to be a pretty decent combination, with the mustardy nature of the sauce really adding to the dish. It could also be because it is the first taste of sauce in a week of McDonald's saucy hell.

Lunch: Chicken, lettuce and mayo sandwich, 5/10

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Just as the local cafe is about to close, I find this lone sandwich sitting on the shelf. "Sorry, that's all we have left, man," the person taking my order said. The blandness of the sandwich itself makes the sauce so overpowering it is as if I am glugging it straight from the bottle. Big Mac sauce smothered on a crappy chicken, lettuce and mayo sandwich is not what dreams are made of.

Dinner: Leftover pizza, 5/10

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Welcome to my life. This peri-peri chicken pizza is left over from the night before, devoid of nutrients and deprived of its former liveliness after an overnight stay in the fridge. The Big Mac sauce doesn't help my situation, being a little too punchy for this already stale pizza. Perhaps I'm getting sick of Ronald McDonald in my life already, or maybe I should try eating less bland foods.

Tuesday

Tuesday is a public holiday for Australia Day so I give myself a break from the American fast food chain. I consume nothing but sausage sandwiches and drink nothing but beer. It's unfortunate, as I'm sure Big Mac sauce would have been a real treat when mixed into a cold one.

Wednesday

Breakfast: Avocado on toast... again, 8/10

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Avocado on toast is clearly a staple of my diet, so getting it again after the success of Monday's Big Mac sauce combination is an absolute no-brainer. It doesn't disappoint. Although, it may be down to the sauce-induced endorphins flowing through my body.

Lunch: Grilled chicken wrap, 8/10

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I think I have found a match. The Big Mac sauce adds a nice kick to the chicken, lettuce, pineapple and tomato combo, making this wrap a pretty awesome one. Maybe there is hope for the sauce becoming a diet staple, after all.

Dinner: Nachos from Guzman Y Gomez, 8/10

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In this remarkable food journey, I have discovered the best partner to Big Mac sauce is avocado — the butteriness of the avo meshes perfectly with the mustard-iness of the sauce. Life finally makes sense. The nachos, already quite flavourful due to the guacamole, beans and pico de gallo, are thoroughly aided by the sprightliness of the bottled sauce.

Thursday

Breakfast: Muesli Bar, 2/10

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Running late for work, the fruit and nut muesli bar is the quick and easy option, but potentially the most disastrous flavour-wise. While it may not be as repugnant as one would imagine, it is not that terribly fun to eat on an empty stomach. It's the type of concoction you'd be forced to eat for a high school dare, or pay big bucks for as part of a degustation meal — all options leading to regret.

Lunch: Vietnamese chicken roll, 7/10

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The chicken schnitzel on the sandwich is already a slight affront to Vietnamese culture, so the Big Mac sauce is no big deal, mum and dad. This concoction is a clang of cultures, due to the combination of the McDonald's sauce with the pickled radish and soy. It is far from amazing, with the Big Mac sauce becoming a lost traveller in the midst of the Asian flavours.

Dinner: Salmon and chicken teriyaki sushi, 8/10

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Being Thursday, I decide to treat myself to a nice meal. I head to a sushi train, but get intimidated by the fact the stern-looking sushi chefs are going to flip if I pulled out a big bottle of Big Mac sauce and stain their creation. So I order the food to-go, then went home and eat it without shame. It is delicious.

Friday

Breakfast: Ham and cheese toasted sandwich, 6/10

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This is the day where I really get over putting Big Mac sauce on everything. With the long-awaited feelings of dread sinking into my body, I take a bite of the toasted sandwich to find out that it isn't completely awful, instead it just tastes like a pickle has been added to the mix. It is kinda like catching the train for the 5th day in a row; the monotony gets to you more than anything.

Lunch: Club sandwich, 5/10

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There is just too much going on here. This club sandwich is already great, with chicken and pancetta owning the show. The Big Mac sauce is unfortunately a bit like an annoying guest at a party, who just won't leave you alone and falls asleep on your couch. Almost time to kick it out of my life.

Dinner: Schnitzel with Jager sauce, 7/10

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Again, I am out to dinner, embarrassed I have to squeeze this sauce onto my plate in the midst of a busy restaurant, as my friends egg me on. I have my fingers crossed our waiter won't say anything about the foreign, orange substance on the plate. It ends up being a much better version of the sauerkraut sitting on the side of my dish. The perfect restaurant companion.

The end

So there you go, folks, I've eaten a week's worth of Big Mac sauce so you don't have to.

It actually tasted pretty good doused over most foods on the menu this week, although that's the whole point of condiments, isn't it? The limited availability means one will need to pay up for the privilege of squeezing Big Mac sauce on your meal at a nice restaurant, not to mention the shame.

Would I do it again? Definitely not. The taste of Big Mac sauce, as much as I might be a fan, became pretty tedious by the end of the week and turned into a sick form of torture. It would linger around in my mouth after each meal, a sobering reminder of why eating it on every single meal was actually a ridiculous idea. My advice: stick to burgers.