McDonald's vastly underestimated the sauce's demand, with angry fans even suggesting filing a lawsuit against the fast food restaurant (crazy, right?). The company issued an apology. A market for the sauce has since developed, with bidding and trading taking place online. Values on Szechuan sauce packets are fluctuating, but it seems we might have seen a new peak. The Drive reports that a woman in Michigan traded a packet of Szechuan sauce for a 2004 Volkswagen GTI. Seriously.
The craze around Szechuan sauce came about a few months ago when season 3 of "Rick and Morty" premiered. The end of the first episode ended in a 30 second rant about a mostly forgotten condiment that McDonald's released for a short time in 1998 as part of marketing for the Disney film "Mulan." By all indications, it wasn't very good. Still, fans went into a fever pitch, prompting McDonald's to re-release Szechuan sauce. The problem was that individual stores only got a very small amount, leaving most people high and dry.
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