Someone on eBay placed a bid worth $14,700 for a pair of 19-year-old McDonald’s McNugget sauces that the seller recently found in “an old car.” One of these condiments, the “Szechuan teriyaki dipping sauce,” was released as a tie-in for the Disney movie Mulan, but it hasn’t been available since the film came out in 1998. People shell out big bucks for nostalgic food products on eBay all the time, but this is an unusually high price tag. Its popularity can only be explained by a viral stunt that the creators of Adult Swim animated comedy Rick and Morty launched a few weeks back. 
 
 Please God, I don't ask for much, please let us gain enough cultural influence to force McDonald's into bringing back that fucking sauce. — Rick (((and Morty))) (@RickandMorty) April 2, 2017 
 
 To coincide with the debut of their April Fools’ Day episode, which had a plot line about the Mulan sauce, the Rick and Morty team started a Change.org campaign asking McDonald’s to bring back the dip. As of press time, this campaign has received over 20,000 signatures. The team even had some success engaging with McDonald’s on social media: 
 
 Rick and Morty fans also flooded the comments of the YouTube video of the commercial for the sauce with references to the show: 
 
 Although McDonald’s has not announced any official plans to bring the sauce back, a spokesperson recently remarked: “We never say never, because when our customers speak, we listen.” 
 
 Until the chain’s head honchos decide to put the sauce back into commission, fans can continue to troll eBay, hoping and praying that someone else in the world discovers a lost packet of “Szechuan dip.” Currently, one eBay seller is offering another packet of the sauce for the comparatively low buy-it-now price of $1,000: 
 
 • Man makes more than £11,500 after selling rare vintage Asian-style dipping sauces from McDonald's [Mirror] 
 
 • Get Mcdonalds to bring back the Szechuan Mcnugget Dipping Sauce for the new Mulan movie [Chang.org] 
 
 • The Secret World of Selling ‘Nostalgic’ Food [Eater] ||||| Ever since the surprise season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty, fans have been jonesing for special edition Szechuan dipping sauce released by McDonald’s in 1998 to promote Disney’s Mulan. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, start here.) 
 
 Some fans tried making their own version of the sauce, while others made ovations to McDonald’s to re-release it. And at least one person with a bunch of money and very little patience apparently dropped $14,700 on a 20-year-old tub of original Mulan sauce on Ebay. 
 
 The seller wrote, “I just bought a really old car, while cleaning it I found a packet of this sauce. After watching the recent episode of Rick and Morty I went online to see if it was worth anything. Turns out it was.” 
 
 The buyer topped 186 other bids for the sauce, giving the seller enough cash to ditch that lucky 20-year-old clunker and upgrade to something new or close to it. The seller’s only request was “I hope somebody who wants to eat some 20 year old gnarly sauce gets this. I would prefer not to sell it to a collector.” 
 
 Buddy, for that price it should be kept in a bank vault. 
 
 We think it’s only fair to point out that while it’s a cool stroke of luck for the seller, buying a packet of McNugget sauce for $14,700 is not a very Rick thing to do. Don’t get me wrong, Rick wants the sauce. But it’s more his style to win it in an intergalactic singing competition or gambling with some creepy-looking aliens. At the very least he’d use Jerry’s credit card. 
 
 He’d also definitely eat the sauce. So how about it, new owner of rare McDonald’s Mulan dipping sauce. Are you squanchy enough to be a Rick? Or are you gonna be a loser like Jerry. (P.S. Don’t sue us if you actually eat decades-old expired fast food.) 
 
 H/T Time ||||| Image: Cartoon Network 
 
 McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce, the limited edition dipping sauce that was briefly available in the summer of 1998 as promotion for Disney’s Mulan, is Rick Sanchez’s singular reason for traversing the multiverse. Just in time for the show’s third season return, a McDonald’s chef has brought the sauce back. 
 
 At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland joked that he’d been in contact with McDonald’s after the show’s third season premiere prominently featured the sauce. After the episode aired, thousands of fans petitioned for McDonald’s to bring it back and a single bottle of the stuff sold for $14,000 on eBay. Last night, Roiland took to Twitter to reveal that McDonald’s lived up to their promise and sent him a single 64oz jug of Szechuan Sauce from an alternate dimension where it’s always 1998. 
 
 Along with the sauce was a note from one of McDonald’s chefs named Mike (there are a couple of them) explaining the lengths they had to go to in order to procure the sauce. 
 
 
 
 Mike wrote: 
 
 “We wish we could have brought more sauce through, but we couldn’t risk keeping a portal like that open. Think about it, if you knew in 1998 that McDonald’s would have All Day Breakfast in 2017, would you want to stay in 1998? Of course not. If we left the portal open, we’d have puka shells, bucket hats, and boy bands as far as the eye could see. It’s too risky, even for a sauce as delicious as this.” 
 
 While Roiland got the first bottle, Chef Mike added that “a few lucky fans will get to experience the glory” meaning that the fast food giant is probably planning to roll it out for another limited time run. 
 
 Update: This morning, McDonalds posted a new picture of three more jugs of the sauce to its Twitter feed along with the time and date of Rick and Morty’s return tonight on Adult Swim. It’s coming back, folks.
– This is either a big fan of the cartoon Rick and Morty, a hopeful collector, or a very brave and nostalgic soul: A packet of 1998 McDonald's Szechuan sauce has sold for $14,700 on eBay, reports Time. The strange background: McDonald's put out the dipping sauce in that year as a publicity tie-in for the Disney movie Mulan, and it received a giant nostalgic push when the character Rick from the popular Adult Swim show pined for it in a recent episode. That led to a viral campaign for McDonald's to bring it back, complete with multiple Change.org petitions. The company has hinted it might do so, and hopeful fans have noted that a remake of Mulan is in the works for next year. But the eBay sale is the strangest component yet. "I just bought a really old car, while cleaning it I found a packet of this sauce," the listing stated. "After watching the recent episode of Rick and Morty I went online to see if it was worth anything. Turns out it was. Also this comes with a packet of wasabi as well." A post at Eater notes that what it calls "nostalgic food" is popular on eBay, "but this is an unusually high price tag." No word yet on the identity of the buyer, or plans for the sauce, but the Daily Dot is issuing a challenge: The character Rick would definitely eat the stuff, "so how about it, new owner of rare McDonald’s Mulan dipping sauce. Are you squanchy enough to be a Rick?" (A brother recently drove his sister to McDonald's, which is notable only because they have a combined age of 11.)