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Rick And Morty fans are bidding hundreds of dollars on eBay listings for packets of limited edition McDonald’s szechuan nugget dipping sauce, after widespread shortages during yesterday’s one-off offer nearly provoked riots.
(It is our sincere hope that linguists of the future mine that sentence for meaning. To those intrepid researchers, let us make this clear: 2017 is fucking ridiculous to us, too.)
After the fast-food chain chose to capitalise on the cartoon’s bizarre reference to the discontinued sauce by bringing it back for a single day, fans of the show were left furious – and hungry – as demand wildly overpowered supply.
Now, as the final act of this grotesque capitalist gangbang, savvy and/or insane punters are selling packets of the sauce for ridiculous amounts of real-world cash. This one sold for $222, equating to $7.50 per millilitre of sauce.
Other listings are punching towards similar numbers.
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At least one listing offers the sauce and all associated accoutrement, like the cultural relics of the world’s saddest music festival.
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Another user has absolutely taken the piss with their effort to both sample the sauce and sell it on: their listing features a tiny syringe filled with… well, it could be literally fucking anything, but they insist it’s 5mL of sauce.
They’re selling the syringe, without the McDonald’s packaging, for US $60. Minimum.
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Our advice is to not buy syringes full of random brown substances through eBay, but hey, that’s your prerogative.
We can only await the dressing-down from the show’s creators over this abject insanity.
chanting #wewantsauce#rickandmorty pic.twitter.com/7vrlswJwlT
— verbaquadrata (@verbaquadrata) October 7, 2017