SALT LAKE CITY — Wendy’s announced Sunday that it is bringing back the popular spicy chicken nuggets.
“THIS IS NOT A DRILL!” Wendy’s tweeted. “Spicy Chicken Nuggets are coming back!”
The story of how this happened is pretty interesting. On Saturday, Chance the Rapper tweeted, “Positive Affirmations for today: I WILL have a good day, I Will succeed today, Wendy’s WILL bring back spicy nuggets at some point please please Lord let it be today.”
Wendy’s retweeted Chance the Rapper’s tweet Saturday afternoon, writing, “Y’all keep asking, so here’s your chance. The people in charge say if you guys can get our tweet (this one right here) to 2 Million likes, they will bring SPICY CHICKEN NUGGETS BACK. Let’s freakin’ do this!”
Within a day and a half, the tweet was liked more than 2 million times and retweeted more than 400,000 times.
“Y’all are crazy!” Wendy’s tweeted. “LOSING IT RIGHT NOW THIS IS AMAZING!”
Chance the Rapper responded to Wendy’s tweet Monday, dropping a reference to his upcoming album slated to drop in July.
“Can we drop (spicy chicken nuggets) the same day as the album? I need them together,” Chance the Rapper tweeted.
Spicy chicken nuggets fans have been over the moon about the announcement.
Wendy’s has not yet announced when spicy chicken nuggets will be available, though its social media manager tweeted “soon” on Monday.