'We want sauce': police called over McDonald's Rick and Morty promotion
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[QUOTE=QueenSasha24;52759521]Since it's literally just their BBQ sauce mixed with their Sweet and Sour sauce, I made a version at Wendy's with their sauces. Came out *way* fucking tastier just cause Wendy's has better S&S sauce.[/QUOTE]
that's just a myth past around. Binging with Babish did a follow up where he got the ingredients from and replicated the sauce and verified it with a blind taste test.
Even in the video linked to in the guardian, a person said it tasted a bit like soy sauce.
hahahahah wow
This is so fucking stupid, fucking millennials :v:
I went out to go find some of the sauce yesterday. The McDonalds near me sold out in less than an hour.
I'll admit, I was a bit disappointed, but of instead of sulking I went to go eat some sushi and immediately forgot about it all like what any normal person would do. It's just some sauce for fuck's sake.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;52759663]this is why youll always be a noobsauce smh[/QUOTE]
uh excuse me sir I only actively hunt the finest quality of sauce, not some mediocre fast food junk :class:
Never buy into fast food memes.
I remember hearing people talk the ribwiches at McDonald's up a ton, and I finally went out of my way to try it. I got it, and it tasted exactly like a TV dinner reformed rib meat meal I had before.
While no one called the cops, we had to deal with similar shit for the Unicorn Frappe at Starbucks. It was a promotion that was supposed to last a week. We had ingredients for [I]a day and a half[/I]
I feel super bad for the mcdonald employers.
At least no one got hurt right? If someone was injured over this I'm sure mcdonalds would seriously rethink doing any of these offhand promotions again. That being said they really under delivered with this.
I feel bad for the guys and gals behind Rick and Morty.
They had no part in this campaign yet you just know this is gonna reflect badly on them somehow.
It's like McDonalds saw the NES/SNES Classic and responded with "Hold my beer"
[quote=guy on my facebook feed]Can we please have a fucking riot towards mcdonalds please? I showed up early and they even ran out of posters when I was 4 people fucking shy from being at the register
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MCDONALDS YOU KNEW THIS SHIT WAS GONNA BE HIGH IN DEMAND SO YOU SHOULDN'T SEND 50 PACKETS PER STORE YOU SNIVELING CUNTS[/quote]
:chillout:
[QUOTE=Araknid;52759221]God I fucking hate the rick and morty fanbase[/QUOTE]
Don't pretend that this is anything exclusive to a particular fandom. There is something deeply wrong with the human psyche when one can come to value anything simply based on scarcity alone. It's a mediocre, easily replicable sauce made with bottom-tier ingredients to appeal to the blandest of tastes of the middle of the bell curve.
But if you make it available for only one day it is suddenly worth hundreds of dollars on Ebay, because the value of the experience of possessing something rare vastly skews the judgement of everybody involved in the process. This is nearly species wide. We are almost universally suckers, when it comes to scarcity, and major corporations know and exploit this every day. The man selling chicken nuggets à la carte dipped in the stuff with unwashed hands was relying on this fact - that seeing others have a rare experience while the sauce was "sold out" would pressure latecomers into paying him an extortionate amount to not be excluded.
I am quite convinced that if you had a particularly rare kind of shit from an endangered animal which had no medicinal or real-world applications, it would still sell for a fortune.
[QUOTE=FreakyMe;52759831]Don't pretend that this is anything exclusive to a particular fandom. There is something deeply wrong with the human psyche when one can come to value anything simply based on scarcity alone. It's a mediocre, easily replicable sauce made with bottom-tier ingredients to appeal to the blandest of tastes of the middle of the bell curve.
But if you make it available for only one day it is suddenly worth hundreds of dollars on Ebay, because the value of the experience of possessing something rare vastly skews the judgement of everybody involved in the process. This is nearly species wide. We are almost universally suckers, when it comes to scarcity, and major corporations know and exploit this every day. The man selling chicken nuggets à la carte with unwashed hands dipped in the stuff was relying on this fact - that seeing others have a rare experience while the sauce was "sold out" would pressure latecomers into paying him an extortionate amount to not be excluded.
I am quite convinced that if you had a particularly rare kind of shit from an endangered animal which had no medicinal or real-world applications, it would still sell for a fortune.[/QUOTE]
My grandma collected the entire Inspector Gadget toy collection when McD's did that. I don't even remember why. Just because?
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[QUOTE=Araknid;52759221]God I fucking hate the rick and morty fanbase[/QUOTE]
Is there a fanbase that [I]isn't[/I] awkward as fuck? Can't tell you how many times I've gone to check out forums or threads for shows I really like, just to quietly close my browser and sit in the dark.
Talking about toys, and oh christ the flashbacks.
[video=youtube;VLammE7OWjs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLammE7OWjs[/video]
I remember they stopped doing TY related stuff when McDonald's report people would buy the happy meal, get the toy and throw the food away.
[QUOTE=Araknid;52759221]God I fucking hate the rick and morty fanbase[/QUOTE]
Seeing as the sauce had a following outside of being mentioned on Rick And Morty, odds are this would have happened anyway but on a smaller scale due to the scarce quantities that were available.
[QUOTE=Araknid;52759221]God I fucking hate the rick and morty fanbase[/QUOTE]
Honestly, these days I hear more people talking about how much they hate the Rick and Morty fanbase than I hear from the Rick and Morty fanbase. The "I hate Rick and Morty fanbase" fanbase is rapidly becoming more annoying than the Rick and Morty fanbase in my book. And the Rick and Morty fanbase can be fucking annoying.
[QUOTE=MedicWine;52759867]My grandma collected the entire Inspector Gadget toy collection when McD's did that. I don't even remember why. Just because?
[img]http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/19417000/ngbbs4a400b088a220.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Holy shit I had these
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52759526]Nerds in general are atrocious. I don't mean this as in people who enjoy things like gaming or sci fi, I mean this as in the sort of people who obsess over of things like this, buy figures and go to cons. Most of "nerd culture" seems to be filled with mentally ill weirdos.[/QUOTE]
I go to cons with friends and have spent over $1,000 on anime figures over the years. It's just a hobby, I doubt it's "most" people. :cry:
This is depressing.
While it is [I]really stupid[/I] to get damn near a riot over fuckin' sauce, I'd say McDonald's is even dumber for doing this promotion like this.
Maybe you wanna say "Oh they didn't know Rick and Morty was so popular", but it takes 5 seconds to google Rick and Morty viewership and find out that the episode that featured the szechuan sauce gag got [I]11 million[/I] viewers. So you're talking a minimum of 11 million people who probably want this sauce, not counting the ridiculous numbers of people who have [I]heard[/I] about this because those 11 million people didn't shut the fuck up about it for like 6 months. Ask any PR guy with a good head for pop culture and he could have told you how big this was.
I don't really think it would have worked out in any sense. Even if they theoretically supplied enough packets that everyone who came there was happy (which would have numbered probably in the thousands per mcdonald's), [I]1 day[/I] is begging for chaos anyway. I'd really like to talk to the McDonald's CEO and be like, hey, it's pretty obvious people really want this sauce back, why don't you just [I]bring back the fucking sauce?[/I] Just in general?
[QUOTE=Swiket;52759930]Holy shit I had these[/QUOTE]
I only had the arm grabber :v:
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52759964]While it is [I]really stupid[/I] to get damn near a riot over fuckin' sauce, I'd say McDonald's is even dumber for doing this promotion like this.
Maybe you wanna say "Oh they didn't know Rick and Morty was so popular", but it takes 5 seconds to google Rick and Morty viewership and find out that the episode that featured the szechuan sauce gag got [I]11 million[/I] viewers. So you're talking a minimum of 11 million people who probably want this sauce, not counting the ridiculous numbers of people who have [I]heard[/I] about this because those 11 million people didn't shut the fuck up about it for like 6 months. Ask any PR guy with a good head for pop culture and he could have told you how big this was.
I don't really think it would have worked out in any sense. Even if they theoretically supplied enough packets that everyone who came there was happy (which would have numbered probably in the thousands per mcdonald's), [I]1 day[/I] is begging for chaos anyway. I'd really like to talk to the McDonald's CEO and be like, hey, it's pretty obvious people really want this sauce back, why don't you just [I]bring back the fucking sauce?[/I] Just in general?[/QUOTE]
While I do feel bad for the workers at these joints dealing with angry nerds, I do enjoy the backlash the company itself is getting for mishandling this.
If the locations weren't going to have at least 100 packets in stock, at the very LEAST they could've chosen the locations better, and not have had them all in one corner of the fucking state. The closest McD's to me that was offering this was an hour away.
[QUOTE=Keychain;52759237]i do not understand why mcdonald's wouldnt cash in on this. dont understand the logic here[/QUOTE]
We're talking about a corporation worth billions here, I don't think they really give two shits about producing some meme sauce to bring in a niche audience.
And besides, these are Rick and Morty fans, they probably already go to McDonalds regularly.
[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;52759964]Maybe you wanna say "Oh they didn't know Rick and Morty was so popular", but it takes 5 seconds to google Rick and Morty viewership and find out that the episode that featured the szechuan sauce gag got [I]11 million[/I] viewers. [b]So you're talking a minimum of 11 million people who probably want this sauce, not counting the ridiculous numbers of people who have [I]heard[/I] about this because those 11 million people didn't shut the fuck up about it for like 6 months.[/b] Ask any PR guy with a good head for pop culture and he could have told you how big this was.[/QUOTE]
Yea, no, there's no way that this was going to sell a minimum of 11 million, no PR person with an ounce of experience will project more than 100% turnover from people who saw an episode of a tv show and people going out and buying a product that was mentioned as an aside.
[QUOTE=Omali;52760184]Yea, no, there's no way that this was going to sell a minimum of 11 million, no PR person with an ounce of experience will project more than 100% turnover from people who saw an episode of a tv show and people going out and buying a product that was mentioned as an aside.[/QUOTE]
I don't mean 11 million definite buyers, I mean 11 million people who probably [I]want[/I] this sauce in general, at least to try it. Because pretty much everyone who watches that episode is going to be made at least [I]curious[/I] about it to some extent. So basically, at [I]least[/I] 11 million people (probably lots more due to hearing about this bit from the internet and friends) have heard of this and are curious about trying that.
You gotta account for how many people out of those are gonna actually show up to try it. McDonald's sorely underestimated if they even knew how big the pool of potential buyers was.
What the fuck? Just buy this.
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[url]https://www.amazon.com/San-Sauce-Szechuan-10-Ounce/dp/B00HMUUCMW/?th=1[/url]
Can we go to the timeline where Rick And Morty got canned after season 2 and Mission Hill got like eight seasons instead this one is fucked up
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52759580]Tastes the exact same to me dude. I was alive and eating McDonalds when that shit was actually out. It tastes the same as mixing bbq and sweet and sour.[/QUOTE]
People have looked at the recipe and it's literally not. Like it might taste similar (I haven't tried mixing) but you're being factually wrong.
E: As a aside lmao I'm 28 my dude, I was alive as well when fuckin' Mulan came out. Don't try to bring age into this.
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