Taco Bell Has an All-New Menu Item for a Limited Time
Taco Bell is leaning heavily into chicken this year with the return of the Crispy Chicken Nuggets.
At Live Más Live, Taco Bell announced its plans to release a new dipping sauce for the fan-loved nuggets.
The sauce, made in partnership with a fan-favorite brand, is available at Taco Bell restaurants nationwide now.Taco Bell seems to be in the middle of an all-out chicken renaissance. From its Cantina Chicken menu, with newly added Caliente Cantina Chicken, to the returning Crispy Chicken Nuggets, which fans are desperate to get their hands on after selling out quickly in 2024, our favorite taco joint might slowly be becoming our favorite chicken joint, too.
At Live Más Live in March, Taco Bell teased plenty of new innovations, including the announcement that some kind of crispy chicken will be joining the permanent menu by 2026. While we await to learn just which chicken offering will be a Taco Bell mainstay—our hope is the new chicken strips the chain tested in Indianapolis, but it's currently testing new Crispy Chicken Tacos and Burritos in Charlotte, North Carolina, too—the Bell is still releasing new menu items to go with its Crispy Chicken Nuggets, which are available for a limited time.
At Live Más Live, we learned that Taco Bell would be playing with more sauce combinations this year. The first one is finally here, and it features an epic collaboration. Taco Bell is releasing new Mike's Hot Honey Diablo Sauce.
Between Jersey Mike's, KFC, Red Robin, and Dunkin' we aren't sure how Mike keeps up with all the brand collaborations for his sweet and spicy condiment. Yet, even with Mike's Hot Honey popping up on multiple menus, there's still demand for more "swicy" foods—and, clearly, Mike does it best.
For the new sauce, Taco Bell is combining the fan-loved hot honey with one of its most iconic sauces: Diablo. The chain's Diablo Sauce is its spiciest offering, but Mike's Hot Honey cuts the heat in a new, irresistible way.
While Mike's Hot Honey can be found on other restaurant menus, this is the first time the brand is remixing its own condiment to create an all-new sauce. The spicy, smoky, slightly sweet sauce joins menus on May 22 for a limited time, where it will be available as a fourth dipping option for the Crispy Chicken Nuggets alongside the current Hidden Valley Fire Ranch Sauce, Bell Sauce, and Jalapeño Honey Mustard. Mike's Hot Honey Diablo Sauce can also be ordered à la carte for an upcharge of 25 cents.
As with all of Taco Bell's sauce packets and cups, the new Mike's Hot Honey Diablo Sauce is part of the Taco Bell Sauce Container US Recycling Program with TerraCycle. That means once you finish dipping in the swicy condiment, you can mail the empty cup to be recycled—and have a chance to earn extra Taco Bell rewards points.
So we guess we're eating delicious food and saving the planet, just one order of chicken nuggets and dipping sauce at a time.
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