Our research into Golden State Foods brought us to their home website, and though simplistic in delivery, it provided details on all we needed to know. After researching further on the inner workings of Golden State Foods, we felt there was a need to confirm our findings by asking McDonald’s personally regarding the special sauce, for our findings would lack substance were we to accept everything on face value. The article stated that Golden State Foods developed the Big Mac special sauce and liquid products such as “mustard, jam, syrup, dipping sauces, and salad dressings” from the chain. Our research online led us to an article by Bloomberg’s Business Week, written relatively recently in Oct 2013, about liquid products produced by a company named Golden State Foods, a source we were to base our conclusive results upon.
Both China and USA dominated imports on many products according to the Global Agricultural Information Network Report which depicted statistics as recent as 2013, and thus we felt it was our best guess for our initial mind map.
Our first guesses were China and the USA, for it is from these places that Hong Kong obtains most of its food. The other important aspect of the special sauce that we needed to find out was production location, if not local, and by which country and company. It is by trust that we post our findings on the ingredients of the special sauce, and whether or not the actual sauce contains more than said ingredients is certainly a possibility that cannot be ruled out. However, the only information we obtained as to what the special sauce was made of was an online video by a McDonald’s top chef explaining its core ingredients in a cooking tutorial, thus we could never extrapolate whether or not the factory made product contained additives or not. It was clear from the Barbeque Sauce packaging, the sauce we chose as a reference point, that it contained additives and preservatives, therefore by extension we believed similar results could be found for the special sauce. One of the first aspects that we felt most affected sauces in general, and possibly the special sauce, was a look into whether or not additives were added in its production. Our initial brainstorm integrated the various sauces McDonald’s offered to customers, for we felt that due to its secretive nature our first clues to finding the special sauce’s origin and shared ingredients, if any, would be to compare like liquid products. Within the industrial network, it is understandable that such secrecy be maintained as a necessity of competition between rival corporations, yet it is precisely this phenomenon which allows corporations to maintain their habitual ways for the sake of economic growth, and easily turn a blind eye to the undeniable effects the financial game has made on our relationship with the world. We feel the special sauce can be seen as a representation of a phenomenon in society that maintains the hold between those in the industrial circle and those who aren’t, and that is the separation between those in the know and the “general public”. In a word to describe the essence of our research to uncover more about the Big Mac special sauce, we would have to choose ignorance for it was at every attempt to inquire on inside information regarding the special sauce were we met with an answer of vagueness.
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