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Zahna Eklund & Neil Shaw

Woman hailed a genius for how she opens McDonald's sauce packets

A woman has been hailed 'elite' and a genius after a video of how she opens McDonald's sauce packets went viral on TikTok. The user who posts as @smashleybaldwin uploaded her video to complain about McDonald's only ever giving her two sauce packets - even if she asks for four.

But it was her demonstration of how she pours the sauce onto her burger that caught people's attention. Instead of peeling back the lid on her sweet and sour, like everyone else in the world, she pierces a hole in one of the bottom corners.

The sauce can then be squeezed out, as if it were coming from a ketchup bottle.

Commenters were left floored by the trick, with many asking her for a second video explaining how she did it, reports The Mirror.

Danny asked: "Wait, how did you open the sauce like that?"

Another user added: "The way you opened the sauce is actually freaking smart," and a third wrote: "Why didn't I think about that sauce pack hack before? This is actually genius!"

The following day, the woman, returned to TikTok to respond to someone who accused her of "gatekeeping" the trick because she hadn't immediately responded to questions about how she did it. In the second video, she explained that all she did was pierce a hole in the bottom of the sauce packet using a small knife that she keeps on her keychain.

And the woman's hack was praised by fellow TikTok user Ciaran Halpin (@halpojr), who said her trick was a "game changer".

He said in a video: "She poked a hole in the bottom of the sauce and used it like a funnel. You have won! Oh my god, game-changer! Wow."

Commenters on his video couldn't help but agree, as one said: "Genius!"

While another exclaimed: "That is freaking elite!"

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