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I Reviewed Every Item From McDonald's KPop Demon Hunters Meals: Here's What to Order
KPop Demon Hunters fans, get to McDonald's fast. For a limited time, you can nab a meal that might seem like an April Fool's Day joke, but isn't. Participating McDonald's restaurants are offering both the HUNTR/X meal, named for the girl group from Netflix's Oscar-winning animated film, KPop Demon Hunters , and the Saja Boys Breakfast Meal, named for the movie's boy band. I beat a path to McDonald's on Tuesday, the first day the new meals were out, so I could try everything. I mean, yay, holographic photo cards, but I think I would have preferred a KPop Demon Hunters figurine. Or patterned socks, like those that were given out with the Grinch meal. NYT/Screenshot by CNET And the KPop Demon Hunters items are surprisingly pretty good! Be warned: Once word gets around, they might be hard to get. The McDonald's holiday Grinch Meal sold out quickly at some locations (too bad if you wanted a pair of the adorable Grinch-themed socks that came with it), so don't wait on this limited-edition menu. Shake up the fries, skip the Demon sauce The HUNTR/X Meal , named for the K-pop girl group in KPop Demon Hunters, is a 10-piece chicken McNuggets meal that includes a medium drink and three special menu items. The top fry is one I shook up with the Ramyeon seasoning, while the other one is just a regular McDonald's fry. I was surprised by how much I liked the seasoning! Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET Ramyeon McShaker fries come with a small bag of soy, garlic, sesame and spice seasoning, along with regular McDonald's fries. You sprinkle the seasoning into the provided bag, dump in the fries, shake it all up and eat. McDonald's does not skimp on the amount of fry seasoning they give you. NYT/Screenshot by CNET My take: McDonald's fries are legendary, and honestly, I didn't want to season them and risk wrecking the taste. Here's the shocker: I loved it. They give you a ton of seasoning, and the fries become thickly coated, which I thought would be a nightmare. But they were a salty, tasty delight. There's no meat in the seasoning, but it reminded me of a fried-chicken coating -- tasty and rich. The meal includes two new sauces for the fries and nuggets. Hunter sauce is a sweet chili sauce mixing notes of chili, garlic and pepper. If you're familiar with McDonald's longtime sweet-and-sour sauce, this reminded me of that, with just a touch of heat. You can order one of each of the two KPop Demon Hunters sauces. Hunter sauce is better than the shockingly purple Demon sauce, in my humble opinion. Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET The other new sauce is Demon sauce, a mustard sauce with some heat and a bold purple color. There's just not enough dark purple food out there. But while the color was cool, I ended up scraping the Hunter sauce cup almost empty, leaving most of the purple Demon sauce behind. I appreciated the almost-but-not-quite wasabi flavor of the mustard, but I wouldn't order this sauce again. Look! My McNugget is wearing a purple wig! The best thing about the