It's back, and it's everywhere

The sandwich is elusive because McDonald’s doesn’t market it nationwide. Instead, individual restaurants will start selling it for a few weeks. Then it disappears.

All that will change on Nov. 2, Election Day, when McDonald’s is slated to make the McRib available in its restaurants nationwide. But fans will have to act quickly. The sandwiches will only be there for about six weeks, according to The Wall Street Journal story.

A McDonald’s executive told the newspaper that the chain didn’t offer it year around because “people get tired of it.”