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McDonalds Brings Back Szechuan Dipping Sauce on October 7th, One Day Only
- Thread starter Empyrean Heaven
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I can imagine
"you are mcdonalds, HOW ARE YOU OUT OF MEAT!! I WANT MEAT!!!"
"I'm sorry, I understand, but we just ran out and have no way to get more until the next delivery"
"FUCK YOU!! LET ME TALK TO YOUR MANAGER!"
The customer service aspect of our modern life turns everyone into entitled lunatics.
Gaming Truth
Member
Out here in VA, they were out of Szechuan sauce by 2:02, posters by 2:05
peteykirch
Member
Well to be fair, when all you sell are sandwiches, running out of bread is kind of a huge oversight.
LinkSlayer64
Member
Place I went to gave them away at 11, jerks.
Mattakuevan
Member
Which part? I'm up in Fairfax. The actual sauce was gone apparently much earlier than 2:40 because they sold some before 2 but they ran out of chicken by 2:40.
Conkerkid11
Member
I heard the sauce wasn't even good though, and that was from Roiland himself when McDonald's sent him that big container of it? Right?
Everybody going out to get it just to say they did.
You can buy Big Mac sauce in a bottle? Everything I see for Big Mac Sauce says it's imported from Canada? Why don't we have this in the U.S.? I wouldn't need any other condiment.
Everybody going out to get it just to say they did.
Holy shit, in the related items there's Big Mac sauce.
You can buy Big Mac sauce in a bottle? Everything I see for Big Mac Sauce says it's imported from Canada? Why don't we have this in the U.S.? I wouldn't need any other condiment.
Well I mean it's McDonald's quality normal Szechuan Sauce. It's not going to be amazing, honestly I was using this as an excuse to get Mickey D's nuggets.
$500? Employees are gonna cuff a few of these....
Sure, but the employee at the time (me) making about 5.75 an hour had no control over that.
Just like the employees working today who are getting bitched out about sauce, have no control over it.
Some how all us genius customers forget that we are all little more than slaves working for corporations who call all the shots.
I would hope the ire is directed solely at the deliberate scarcity and manipulative marketing. I'm sure many higher ups are seeing this as a raging success.
Flying Toaster
Member
Well then. the search is on!
Ha, reminds me of when I went to Burger King one time and they ran out of hamburger meat and only had chicken. I made a joke about Chicken King, but the customers behind me were livid.
Vault Dweller 111
Member
You have to have a high IQ to understand why it's worth it to wait hours for the chance at getting a pack of dipping sauce.
For those that don't know, the posters and stickers that they are giving away aren't all Szechuan Sauce art ones... They have ones for each of the sauces.
At the one I went to, they gave out posters first and then stickers, 1 per person. Obv the Szechuan Sauce ones went first... At least I didn't get stuck with a Creamy Ranch poster lol.
They all came with a coupon for a free order of the new chicken tenders, but you had to purchase an order to get it.
At the one I went to, they gave out posters first and then stickers, 1 per person. Obv the Szechuan Sauce ones went first... At least I didn't get stuck with a Creamy Ranch poster lol.
They all came with a coupon for a free order of the new chicken tenders, but you had to purchase an order to get it.
haha yup...
That doesn't mean people are actually dropping 1k for that though
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
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FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
ebay people need to fucking chill. they are highly likely bringing this sauce back during the live action Mulan, right?
their PR would be idiots not to
their PR would be idiots not to
At the very least they are going to trot it out for more gangbuster days like this.
sooperkool
Member
You can always get a Mac Jr. It's just a McDouble with no ketchup or mustard add Mac sauce and shredded lettuce. Comes out to about $2. Some places you can just say, "Make it like a Mac" and they'll do it.
One time I had a really bad craving for a Chicken Burrito Supreme, and Taco Bell was out of... chicken.
What kind of bad supply chain management leads to that?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
|OT| Harder to get than an SNES Classic
so did any gaffers actually get one? how's it taste?
so did any gaffers actually get one? how's it taste?
GillianSeed79
Member
Are you kidding me? THIS is why there was a line out the door wrapping around my local McDs? For limited time only sauce? LMAO
It's a meme more than anything. Rick from Rick & Morty went on a rant about liking it & wishing it was a permanent menu item, then people joked about that rant, then people wanted the sauce despite it just being the McDonald's version of sauce available at any Chinese restaurant.
That's what I've been reminding my friends who found out their town didn't have the sauce like they thought, by the way. It's $8 more, but you also cover dinner that way & can finally cease their Szechuan searches.
peteykirch
Member
Yes, but McDonalds marketed this as being limited, so the two comparisons aren't really apt.
If you have a sub sandwich shop, it should be expected you always have bread to make a sandwich.
I agree it's crappy for customers to yell at simple employees who had no control over how few packets of sauce they got. The guy making fries or ringing up an order isn't the one dealing with Corporate and what they send the store.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Anybody able to get a few extra? I'd gladly paypal you some bucks for your troubles!
Send me a PM
Send me a PM
TumblingHippo
Member
On one hand it's funny this hysteria over the sauce, but unfortunately I can't help but think of all the verbal abuse flung at store employees by a bunch of unhappy nerds.
Saucycarpdog
Member
Even YouTuber Binging with Babish said the sauce was ok when he got a real sample to recreate it.
Don't know what people were expecting. It's McDonald's quality sauce. I guess because Rick and Morty hyping it up + few people remember the taste of it had people's expectations to be too high.
Westbahnhof
Banned
Anybody able to get a few extra? I'd gladly paypal you some bucks for your troubles!
Send me a PM
Are you serious?
Is if intended to be a collectors item for you?
Because if it's for consumption, I'm 100% sure you can find or even make better versions for less money.
Possibly even the original in a few months.
Secret Character
Member
I take it you haven't been reading...Anybody able to get a few extra? I'd gladly paypal you some bucks for your troubles!
Send me a PM
I drove by the only one doing sauce (which happen to be down the street where I live) to see the line wrapped around the building an hour before 2. What a clusterfuck.
I then opted for Wendy's across the street.
There is limited and then "we have 20 1 ounce sauce packets per store" when people imagine limited that dont mean "maybe 20 people will be able to get this" especially when the marketing is "come on down on saturday and try this sauce!!!! *If you come 5 hours early, line up and are one of the first 20 in line
Its reasonable to think that if you were one of a couple hundred people to show up on that day, you'd get to try the sauce as advertised.
As much as people start theories about artificial scarcity, this was it to the T.
Like others have said this is just a version of a common sauce, it's not like its rocket surgery and they could literally only make such a small quantity with weeks of scientists working round the clock.
It's amazing to see such soulless corporate calculations targeted at fans of such a show.
Fucking brilliant in ways, but also absurd.
The bread thing, there's certain frozen sticks of bread we'd get from whatever distributor and we ran out, which sucks and you'd get why people would pop into subway and not be able to get a sandwhich. But they'd get told the situation, freak out, and then stand there like "what are you going to do to fix it" in that "IM THE CUSTOMER!!!" entitled way. And its like.... "uh nothing, we literally can't get a shipment in now"
Yup. It's not the easiest thing, but you can definitely bootleg the sauce & the nuggets thanks to BWB. I kind of want to do that myself, but with that Himalayan Ketchup he made. Now that sounded good.
friskykillface
Banned
Yeesh at that line for the one in Boston
Good thing I didn't go
What a mess
Good thing I didn't go
What a mess
Bill R Boggess
Member
Oh shit, I've been living an aimless lie of a life apparently.
I really don't like McD's much but the nuggets are good and that sauce is awesome.
My wife will be thrilled. Here's hoping they have it here in SoCAl.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Spent over an hour driving to three locations for this damn sauce.
And no luck! -___-
I bought some Sriracha Mac Sauce to make the trip feel less worthless.
And no luck! -___-
I bought some Sriracha Mac Sauce to make the trip feel less worthless.
This was such a fucking crock. Only store in the Ann Arbor area had 200-300 people in line at 2pm and they had already sold/allocated their 35 measly packets.
A few folks walked out with them and they announced they'd be hocking them on eBay (looks like prices are 800-1500 per packet now)
McDonald's can't do anything right. People were livid. Some drove a long way too
A few folks walked out with them and they announced they'd be hocking them on eBay (looks like prices are 800-1500 per packet now)
McDonald's can't do anything right. People were livid. Some drove a long way too
psychotron
Member
Checked with my local McDonalds in Poughkeepsie the day before. Was told they have exactly 30 and its first come first serve. Then I went there today just to see. Inside was packed so I went to the drive through and was told they had 20. I said screw that and started leaving, only to hear an employee tell the line they had 17.
Employees must have been posting that shit on eBay from inside the store lol.
Employees must have been posting that shit on eBay from inside the store lol.
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