A Bismarck, N.D. man and former owner of a McDonald’s restaurant recently earned a cool $9,995 after selling a 20-year-old jug of McJordan barbeque sauce to a buyer in Chicago.
The sauce was used on the short-lived McJordan Burger, named for NBA legend Michael Jordan. They sandwiches were available in Chicago-area Mickey D’s in the 1990s after Jordan led the Bulls to six championship rings.
The seller, Mort Bank, saved the gallon container of sauce after selling his restaurant in 1996. “It was in my basement and I would look at it occasionally,” he told The Bismarck Tribune. “I thought it would be worth something someday.”
Bank listed the sauce on eBay, describing it as: “A once in a lifetime chance to own the rarest of rare Michael Jordan and McDonald’s collectible!”
A Chicago resident who remains unidentified bought the sauce, but Banks says the buyer is not Jordan himself. “I’m sure he’s a Bulls or Michael Jordan fan, and hopefully he’s not going to put it on his ribs or his burger,” Bank told KXMB-TV of the buyer. “But it’s up to him; he can do whatever he wants with it.”
