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McMahon made the blunder repeatedly when speaking at an annual gathering of education and learning leaders, the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit, in San Diego last week.
"Kids are sponges," McMahon said at one point. "They just absorb everything.
“It wasn’t all that long ago that it was, ‘We’re going to have internet in our schools!’” McMahon said. “Whoop! Now let’s see A1” — pronouncing it 'A-One' instead of 'A-Eye' — “and how can that be helpful?”
The video of the gaffe has gone viral, and it didn't take long for A.1. sauce to respond after McMahon invoked its name.
"You heard her," read a post by @a1originalsauce on Instagram on Thursday, April 10. "Every school should have access to A.1."
The post was posted alongside an image of the sauce's iconic bottle, with the following posted in all caps: "Agree, Best To Start Them Early."
As for just how A.1. got its name, according to legend, King George IV of the United Kingdom proclaimed the original brown sauce which gave rise to the A.1. franchise as "A.1." when he first tasted it in 1824. It hit store shelves seven years later.
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