Angry crowd storms McDonald's: 'We want szechuan sauce'

Name: Police hold back angry crowd over McDonalds szechuan sauce
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Description: Twitter user @ianjsikes recorded as police attempted to disperse an angry crowd at a McDonalds. The crowd could be heard chanting 'we want sauce', referencing the ill-fated McDonalds szechuan sauce promotion influenced by popular animated show 'Rick and Morty'. / @ianjsikes

NZ Herald

8 Oct, 2017 08:05 PM2 mins to read

Twitter user @ianjsikes recorded as police attempted to disperse an angry crowd at a McDonalds. The crowd could be heard chanting 'we want sauce', referencing the ill-fated McDonalds szechuan sauce promotion influenced by popular animated show 'Rick and Morty'. / @ianjsikes

Police were called to some McDonald's restaurants on Saturday after a PR stunt to bring back a rare sauce backfired.

In 1998, McDonald's did a promotional campaign for Disney's Mulan that included a new Szechuan sauce for Chicken McNuggets. It became well known after featuring in the popular cartoon Rick and Morty.

@McDonalds drove 4 hours at 6am from Canada for that #szechuansauce - no sauce, wouldn't even give us a poster :( #iwantmymcnuggetsauce pic.twitter.com/HzYkmhplbO
— Jillian Campagnola (@RadioJillian) October 7, 2017

On Saturday select McDonald's locations across the United States gave away Szechuan Sauce, in response to an avalanche of demands from fans of the Adult Swim cartoon.

But demand for the sauce far exceeded the supply.

In one video, police can be seen holding back people chanting "we want sauce".

Angry crowd chants "We want sauce" as police force them back. 1000+ people camped out to get #szechuansauce but McDonalds had 70 sauces... pic.twitter.com/wEaqC64Hln
— Ian J Sikes (@ianjsikes) October 7, 2017

Officers also attended other stores because hundreds of people turned up.

McDonald's apologised to fans on social media but repeated their warning that the release was going to be "super limited".