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A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Mat Piscatella (@matpiscatella.bsky.social) dated September 10, 2026.The text of the post reads: “With an average saucey:nuggie ratio of .1375, we really are talking about egregious levels of sauce preciousness here. Bonkers that the 10 piece nuggie gets a 0.2 saucey:nuggie ratio, but the 40 piece falls to a baffling 0.1. A 0.2 ratio or below should really be considered borderline criminal.”
Below the text is a chart titled “SAUCE POLICY.”
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Let’s see… I recall 40 piece coming with 6, so I already know 0.1 is off. That’s 40:6, so 0.15.
That said, you can get pretty good nugget coverage with 6 nuggets to a sauce. I recently asked for one of each sauce when getting a 40 and that was 7 sauces, and they didn’t charge more cause I clearly was ordering with the curious whimsy of someone who had never had a 40 pack before. After all, this wasn’t a planned visit, fates simply lead us there that evening.
With a ratio of 0.175, there was plenty leftover, although popular sauces Honey Mustard and Ranch did almost run out. I imagine even with a 0.1 ratio, there should be enough sauce to satisfy all but the most gluttonous sauce abusers, assuming you only get sauces people are willing to eat.
I think you can write a letter to Nature to make them amend the results of the previous study. The peer-review process failed on this one.
Ideally, sauceologists should run a meta-analysis to definitively determine the ideal ratio. There is a possibility of a regional difference, and older studies might have higher ratios to compare to, and we’re lacking data on special limited edition sauces.
Especially if you’re going to charge for additional ones.
A guess is they do it for psychological reasons on calorie counts. They know people will justify up to some amount of calories and the sauces round up
