Yeah, Reese’s Puffs cereal boxes are cool, but your name in flashing fuchsia retro-fitted font scaling a McDonald’s BBQ Bacon Quarter Pounder? That’s when you’ve made it.

Angel Reese is much more than a WNBA superstar. The Chicago Sky forward is a multi-hyphenate icon, having garnered acclaim across fashion, business and audio media. And Monday, McDonald’s release of the limited-time Angel Reese meal deal added another surah to Reese’s growing epic.

“McDonald’s has always been a big part of my life, from grabbing a McChicken Sandwich as a kid to being named a McDonald’s All-American in 2020,” said Reese in a January press release announcing the meal. “It’s really a dream come true to be the first-ever female athlete to have my own meal and be a part of McDonald’s amazing basketball legacy.”

In a sea of J Balvin McFlurrys and Saweetie ‘N Sour sauce, Reese is returning McDonald’s celebrity meals to their hoop roots.

Chicagoland was originally blessed with Michael Jordan’s McJordan burger back in 1992 — a Quarter Pounder patty adorned with cheese, circular bacon, mustard, pickles, onions and a barbeque sauce cultivated just for Jordan. Now, flash forward a few decades, and Chicago’s latest All-Star in residence has a patty partnership of her own.

The Angel Reese Special includes a Quarter Pounder topped with cheese, three bacon strips, onions, pickles and a smokey barbecue sauce as well as a side of french fries and a Hi-C Orange Lavaburst to drink.

Properly starved and prepared to insert ourselves in McDonald’s meal mythology, my buddy and I trudged along Figueroa Street on Tuesday to taste test at University Park’s finest dining establishment. We made a pair of purchases — one with bacon and one without — as given the psychological influence of my Muslim upbringing, indulging in a bacon burger penetrates my comfort zone (it’s a bit of a flagrant foul).

Seated in the center of the world’s most reliably welcoming restaurant, it didn’t take long for our minimalist No. 6 to be greeted by a greasy assortment of goodies. Due to an absence of discipline, we pre-gamed the burger by delicately dipping fast foods’ finest french fries in ketchup and classic tangy barbecue sauce. But halfway through the medium-sized container, the fries were salvaged as a companion piece to the meal’s main character.

My friend regained focus first, taking a big bite out of her Quarter Pounder, immediately recognizing the influence the bacon and smoky barbecue sauce had over the experience. I followed and agreed that the smoky sauce of my bacon Quarter Pounder had quite the pronounced presence.

I really locked in for the second bite — that’s when the sooty sauce started kicking. As usual, the buttery beef and bun were so very warm and comforting. It was bliss, and by the burger’s demise, my napkin had run out of space. It was a messy meal but fully worthwhile.

A reduced-sugar, low-fat chocolate milk jug served as the perfect concluding satiation, and that was the end of it.

Although I had my qualms — there were limited Angel Reese decorations on-site and the proper Hi-C flavor was unavailable — the holistic Angel Reese Special experience receives an A in my highly influential grade book. Until next time!

Well, actually, until McDonald’s cooks up the McJuJu, that’s probably a wrap on my food reviewer stint. Inshallah, my sodium levels rebound.

Leila MacKenzie is a junior writing about minor details in sports in her column, “Little Things,” which runs every other Tuesday. She is also the data editor at the Daily Trojan.