Sorry, ‘Rick and Morty’ fans, McDonald’s apologizes for running out of Szechuan Sauce
Hope you got to that Szechuan Sauce, schwiftly, “Rick and Morty” fans.
McDonald’s has apologized for not sending enough of the promotional dipping sauce to the locations they said would have it.
The best fans in the multiverse showed us what they got today. We hear you & we're sorry not everyone could get some super-limited Szechuan.
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) October 7, 2017
The apology came after angry reports on social media from some of the hit cartoon’s more fervent fans, noting that some locations had run out of Rick’s favorite dipping sauce even before the promotion was set to start, at 2 p.m.
Hey @McDonalds how can your restaurants run out szechuan sauce at 11am if it's not available till 2? Hmmm...
— Chris Keeney (@Mr_Pennyworth) October 7, 2017
@McDonalds how are you gonna just run out of Szechuan sauce like that pic.twitter.com/zGGMQsgZmd
— Joshua Reuting (@josh_0101) October 7, 2017
We are hearing the McDonalds by UCF only has 20 packets of SZECHUAN SAUCE, @UCF_McD is this true? @McDonalds
— UCF Knight News (@UCFKnightNews) October 7, 2017
mcdonalds really ruined the szechuan sauce promotion
— ego (@EvgeniMaIkinEgo) October 7, 2017
In a somewhat predictable turn of events, lines started forming at some of the “select” participating McDonald’s locations hours before “that Mulan McNuggets sauce,” as Rick calls it in the show, was even available. Find the select locations here, but don’t assume just because your location is on the list that you’ll be able to get any. Some locations never received any of the sauce or special posters.
The McDonald’s press release did specify that each location would get only a “really, really limited” quantity of sauce packets, but the forewarning didn’t make the realization of the sauce scarcity any easier to swallow for some.
Got there an hour early for Szechuan sauce. Left because McDonald’s was only sent 30 packets. Sending bad vibes to McDonald’s Corporate smh can’t complete my serie arc now #szechuansauce pic.twitter.com/MTuAOSqwfG
— Amber Cocchiola (@frenchhornist) October 7, 2017
Definitely not getting any Szechuan Sauce today pic.twitter.com/xKvcu6SqL0
— GravityFallsCipher (@TheMysteryofGF) October 7, 2017
In one case, in the Druid Hills neighborhood in Atlanta, the police even had to be called in to break up a Szechuan Sauce related tussle, according to Twitter user @Easypickens14.
Fight broke out at McDonald's at Druid hills over szechuan sauce. People are starting to get angry cops just showed up! #szechuansauce pic.twitter.com/JC47hNdaxZ
— General Neyland (@Easypickens14) October 7, 2017
And among the more heartbreaking, but in retrospect inevitable, results of the whole ordeal, Twitter user @iamchickenboi was left out in the cold of an unforgiving universe, with his face telling the tale.
I drove over an hour for this. Extremely disappointed. #notmyrestaurant #szechuansauce @McDonalds pic.twitter.com/i2zh6nKn7a
— Ian (@iamchickenboi) October 7, 2017
Here are a few of the reactions gathered Saturday:
@McDonalds thanks for never sending Szechuan sauce to your advertised Rochester location. Never eating at McDonald's again
— Jacob Samuelson (@jsammy14) October 7, 2017
If anyone on twitter is selling szechuan sauce DM im buying
— LACEY (@theplugatc) October 7, 2017
Hey @McDonalds - guess who else has chicken tenders? @Wendys may not have Szechuan sauce but neither do you. pic.twitter.com/SVyTGflVGk
— Cray Wolf (@furrywolf) October 7, 2017
. @McDonalds I’m at the Merrimack,NH location for the Szechuan Sauce! I was told they didn’t get them! WTF!! pic.twitter.com/DKkRwAqV0l
— chris macdonald (@cmacdonald) October 7, 2017
Cops are at Wellington McDonalds where tons of angry people lined up for hrs for Rick and Morty Szechuan sauce only to learn they had none pic.twitter.com/3T272osid4
— Lulu Ramadan (@luluramadan) October 7, 2017
This story was originally published October 7, 2017 at 2:29 PM with the headline "Sorry, ‘Rick and Morty’ fans, McDonald’s apologizes for running out of Szechuan Sauce."