It was three burger patties on a long hoagie-type roll. With, in my opinion, far too much mayo. I don’t know if it was regional or what. This site says it came out in '95 for Batman Forever. I definitely remember making it when I started working there in late '98, so it must have been somewhat popular to stick around that long.
Gad-ZOOKS. Since McDonald’s bread products make Wonder Bread taste like a fresh-from-the-oven Parisian baguette, what’s the point of giving consumers MORE of it?
If you want to make your own szechuan sauce, here’s how to do it:
I’ll be playing Pathfinder on Saturday in a game store across the parking lot from a McDonalds. Guess I’ll stop in and see if they have it. You know, just for gamer geek prestige points.
Unless your game store is in Dinkytown or Uptown, you may as well save yourself the trip.
If you liked the Arch Deluxe, here’s a recipe for it. I love this website.
No recipe for Szechuan sauce, though. Sorry peeps.
You didn’t look hard enough. Here is a de-industrialized version. Found it when I looked for McD’s locations near me. Turns out are are two within a couple miles but with only twenty available per store, I’ll bow out and leave 'em for true aficianadoes of the series.
The ones in the San Francisco area are a strange mix as well. There’s one right next to Cal, and one right next to San Francisco State, but none particularly near Stanford, Cal State-East Bay, or Sonoma State, and the one in San Jose isn’t near San Jose State.
I also checked Las Vegas; there are two there - one is next to UNLV, but the other is on the Strip and nowhere near a school.
What’s the over/under on places where somebody who works there pockets one or more of the sauce packets? It sounds like it could be a repeat of the High School Musical Live fiasco, where pretty much everybody who called in to buy tickets the second they were supposed to be available were told they were all sold out - and within five minutes, there were heavily overpriced tickets on places like StubHub.
I always wonder how companies are able to reproduce their old, discontinued products like this. They must have an archive (and presumably an archivist) of all of their old recipes. They’d need access to the same [del]food[/del] [del]chemicals[/del] supplies as the original. And for some things, like cereals, they’d need certain physical machines to make things in the same shape as the original.
Do companies like McDonald’s really go to all that trouble to preserve their history? I mean, when they stopped making szechual sauce in 1998, they couldn’t possibly have foreseen how they’d come to make it again.
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If you want to make your own szechuan sauce, here’s how to do it:
[/QUOTE]Here’s an updated video from Babish - one of the fans who won a jug back in July sent him a sample and ingredients list, which he painstakingly recreated.
did anyone get to try the sauce?
There are reports that a number of places that were listed as having the sauce “didn’t have any.” Note that “didn’t have any” and “never got any” are not necessarily the same thing.
Two other common problems: very few people knew that there was a limit of 20 per store, and in some cases, the store handed out numbers to people in line hours in advance, so people who showed up later, but still long before 2:00, were unaware that they had no chance.
McDonald’s offered a compromise: all of the Big Macs that day would come with slices of Pickle Rick. Okay, I’m making that one up, but this is turning into a fiasco quickly - maybe not at “we’re going to take a bath on the 1984 Olympics promotion” level, but maybe at “it turns out most of the Monopoly contests we have run so far were rigged (and remember that million dollar instant winner that was sent to St. Jude Children’s Hospital? It was done by someone in on it)” level.
My wife’s company does merchandising and marketing for McDonalds and this was one of her projects. McD’s sent the sauce to them and they had to put the Rick and Morty labels on them (the sauce packets as shipped by McD’s were blank). She then assembled the kits and sent them out to the stores slated to have the sauce. How many stores? 200. How many sauce packets did those stores get? 20. Yep, McD’s only made 4000 sauce packets for this promotion.
I didn’t see any “Rick & Morty” labels on any of them.
There was what looked like a generic science fiction theme to the logo, but that was it.
Those are the ones. She called them Rick and Morty labels so we can blame her for any confusion.
That looks at least Rick and Morty inspired to me.
They may have gotten 20 packets, but at many stores those packets disappeared before they were supposed to have been given away, only to be showing up on e-bay, some auctions offering multiple packs. My son was first in line at a McDonalds that had them, only to be told they had been given away before he got there. How many McDonald’s employees are in on this scam?
I’d guess it’d be a manager that swiped them.
You should see the storm all over Twitter. People are actually talking about class action suits. You’d think that McDonalds was offering gold bars or something.
Or look up the some videos on Twitter. In some places, the police had to be called. Who the fuck starts a riot over a little packet of sauce? It would serve these jagoffs right if they either a.) ended hating it, or b.) got major case of wolf-ass.
I am 20 packets of the sauce at a limited number of restaurants was stupid on McDonald’s part. 20 packets of the sauce at every McDonald’s would have been a stupid idea. if McDonald’s was smarter they should have supplied the sauce to every restaurant for a month and directed some of the profits to their charity. Now they have only pissed off people who were screaming ‘take my money’.