Chick-fil-A’s Smokehouse BBQ Bacon Sandwich Is Again

Mark your calendars: A beloved favourite is making a much-anticipated comeback at one in every of America’s high quick meals chains later this month.

The Smokehouse BBQ Bacon Sandwich is returning to Chick-fil-A menus after a years-long hiatus, the corporate introduced this week. It’s set to land on menus nationwide on March 17, however enable us to make an early introduction: This thick rooster sandwich is stacked with crispy brown sugar-coated bacon, Colby Jack Cheese, lettuce, and a smothering of BBQ sauce. It’s served on a toasted candy yeast bun and obtainable in three rooster choices (unique, spicy, or grilled). 

This seasonal providing is sticking round solely till June 7 — that’s, if the fan-favorite sandwich doesn’t promote out earlier than then. (Because the model tells us, it’s obtainable solely whereas provides final.) You’ll be able to wash all of it down with one in every of 4 new Pineapple Dragonfruit drinks, together with candy tea, common lemonade, the signature frosted lemonade (blended with smooth serve), and sunjoy (a 50-50 mix of candy tea and lemonade). 

Longtime Chick-fil-A chef Cristy Cook dinner first developed this sweet-and-smoky chunk round 2015, the model shared through electronic mail. It initially hit nationwide menus as a limited-time providing in 2017. 

“Ten years in the past, we created the Smokehouse BBQ Bacon Sandwich to spotlight the scrumptious grilled flavors our friends know and love,” Cook dinner tells Meals & Wine. “We’re thrilled it’s making a comeback — this time elevated with much more scrumptious customizations for everybody to take pleasure in this spring.”

The net response from Chick-fil-A devotees has, naturally, swayed overwhelmingly constructive. Customers are celebrating the return within the feedback and sharing their very own takes on the hearty sandwich. In case you look again in Chick-fil-A’s archives, the sandwich’s transient return in 2022 additionally ignited a remark part stuffed with pressing pleas to carry again the merchandise for 2024. When the sandwich was final obtainable, followers supplied it strong reward in video critiques: 

Chick-fil-A is sharing the love with clients this week. You would possibly even discover a be aware of encouragement in your takeout bag throughout the model’s Sunshine Days promo, which the model says goals to acknowledge “little acts of kindness.” 

The Atlanta-based firm isn’t the one chain to speculate time in buyer touchpoints with handwritten messages; Starbucks just lately shifted its technique to incorporate Sharpied notes on cups, too. That technique aligns with Chick-fil-A’s sunny messaging for the most recent spring menu releases. 

“As hotter climate approaches, our friends are craving flavors which are paying homage to longer, brighter days and time spent outdoors with household and pals,” Chick-fil-A’s director of menu and packaging, Allison Duncan, stated in a press launch. 

On the finish of the day, nothing fairly compares to a homestyle barbecue sandwich on a heat spring day.