# Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce is a McNugget dipping sauce McDonald's first sold in 1998 to promote Disney's Mulan, then revived as a viral demand meme after Rick Sanchez ranted about wanting it in the Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere in April 2017. The fan campaign forced McDonald's to bring the sauce back twice, once as a chaotic one-day release in October 2017 and again nationwide in February 2018. ## Overview Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce started as a real limited-edition McNugget dipping sauce sold by McDonald's in 1998 to tie in with Disney's animated Mulan release[5]. The soy and ginger dip vanished after the promo wrapped and stayed forgotten for almost two decades. The meme kicked off when the Season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty aired on Adult Swim on April 1, 2017, and the character Rick Sanchez launched into a monologue about needing to hunt down the sauce[1]. The joke turned into a full internet demand campaign, with fans flooding Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and Change.org with calls for McDonald's to bring the condiment back[4]. ## How It Spread On April 2, 2017, the demand kicked into high gear. YouTuber Bob Hernandez posted a video of himself asking for the sauce at a McDonald's drive-through, and a Redditor named Juleszz shared a screenshot of a McDonald's Facebook reply quoting Rick's catchphrase 'Wubba lubba dub dub,' which pulled more than 20,500 upvotes on /r/rickandmorty[3]. Multiple Change.org petitions sprang up demanding the return of the sauce for the meme's fans[4]. Within days, Delish tracked fake eBay auctions for pots of the sauce popping up as prices soared[2]. On July 29, McDonald's shipped Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland a personal jug of the dip, and his 'Holy shit' tweet racked up tens of thousands of retweets[1]. McDonald's announced a one-day return on October 7, 2017, at select US locations tied to its Buttermilk chicken tenders launch[1]. Stores received only around 20 packets each, drawing crowds who chanted 'we want sauce' loud enough that police were called to several restaurants[1]. One couple drove four hours and left empty-handed, and pots quickly appeared on auction sites for hundreds of dollars[1]. To repair the damage, the chain launched a three-part investigative podcast called 'The Sauce' in February 2018 and re-released 20 million containers nationwide on February 26 that year[3]. ## How to Use Fans typically reference the meme by quoting Rick's monologue, posting 'we want sauce' style demand jokes, or sharing photos of the 2017 or 2018 packets as collector items. The sauce is also commonly used as shorthand for fandom pressure being loud enough to change a real corporate product decision. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce? A limited-edition McDonald's McNugget dipping sauce originally released in 1998 to promote Disney's Mulan, which turned into a viral demand meme in April 2017 after Rick Sanchez ranted about it on Rick and Morty[1]. ### Where did Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce come from? McDonald's first sold the dip in July 1998 as part of the 'Imperial Pack' promo timed to Disney's animated Mulan[5]. The meme itself started with the Rick and Morty Season 3 premiere on April 1, 2017[3]. ### What does Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce mean? It became a fan-culture shorthand for internet-driven consumer demand and a Rick and Morty in-joke about Rick's obsession with a discontinued dip that fans got McDonald's to actually re-release[1]. ### How do you use Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce? Fans typically reference the meme in Rick and Morty jokes, post 'we want sauce' style demand tweets, or trade the 2017 and 2018 packets as collector items on auction sites[1]. ### Is Mcdonalds Mulan Szechuan Sauce still popular? Peak demand came during 2017 and the February 2018 nationwide re-release of 20 million containers; the meme is still remembered as a classic case study in fandom pressure but is no longer trending[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636]() 2. [https://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a52351/mcdonalds-szechuan-dipping-sauce/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mcdonalds-mulan-szechuan-sauce]() 4. [https://www.change.org/p/mcdonald-s-bring-back-mcdonald-s-chicken-nugget-szechuan-sauce]() 5. [https://adage.com/article/news/mcd-s-mulan-promo-features-imperial-pack/23189/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/mcdonalds-mulan-szechuan-sauce Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library