McDonald's Is Bringing Back Szechuan Sauce Again
McDonald's is finally delivering on their promise to bring back a nostalgic condiment that made fans of the show Rick & Morty completely lose it last fall when they couldn't get their hands on the super-limited release of Szechuan sauce.
On Monday, February 26, every McDonald's across America will start serving Szechuan sauce, according to Business Insider. To prevent the shortages that left fans sorely disappointed last October, McDonald's has released 20 million sauce packets that will be distributed in restaurants until supplies run out.
Last fall, McDonald's acknowledged their supply grossly underestimated the demand after a joke in an episode of the cartoon Rick & Morty made the sauce go viral. Originally released in 1998 to promote the Disney movie Mulan, a 17-year-old packet of Szechuan sauce sold for $99,000 on eBay last April. The sauce saga only got more ridiculous in August when DJ Deadmau5 purchased a half-gallon jug of it for $15,000.
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To take the hype even further, McDonald's teased the wider release of the sauce earlier this week with a three-part podcast on the website wewantthesauce.com explaining what exactly went wrong last fall.
Even though the sauce will not be distributed until next week, McDonald's employees have already started to post photos to Reddit of the vast supplies their restaurants received in advance of the highly-anticipated re-release showing that it won't be necessary to line up in the middle of the night this time around to get it.
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