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Do you remember the lines that formed outside some of Tesla's dealerships when Elon Musk announced the opening of the books for the Model 3? Well, similar ones could be found in front of McDonald's restaurants throughout the country after the fast food chain announced it would sell a limited-edition "Rick and Morty" Szechuan sauce pack.
You're probably sitting there waiting for the clock to turn to five so you could go home to your family and wondering "what the hell is 'Rick and Morty?'" so allow us to enlighten you (but not too much as we're keeping an eye on the clock as well).
"Rick and Morty" is the unassuming title of a hit Adult Swim cartoon show that has very quickly built up a strong and apparently very dedicated fan base. It features a Doc Brown-style scientist but with a slightly darker side, and his very average grandson. It may not sound like much, but it's one of those things that you need to see to understand what the hype is all about.
And there's plenty of that, as the whole McDonald's sauce incident proved. However, not everyone that got the special pack was as lucky as Rachel Marie, a graphic designer from Michigan. She got up early one morning and sat in line at her local McDonald's, with eight more people in front of her. When her turn came, she got the sauce but didn't spray it over her meal. Instead, she kept it and advertised it on a Facebook group where people trade this kind of stuff.
She received plenty of tempting offers, but she decided to push it. "There was actually a large response with some nice pins," she told Business Insider. "But if I could get a car, I thought, why not ask?" She did, and a fellow "Rick and Morty" fan offered his red early 2000s Volkswagen Golf Mk. IV in exchange for the coveted sauce pack.
That sounds like a sweet deal for Rachel Marie, but if you ask us, the joke's on her, only she doesn't know it yet. She will, however, the first time she'll have fries and realize she can't squeeze the Volkswagen Golf to make them taste better.
"Rick and Morty" is the unassuming title of a hit Adult Swim cartoon show that has very quickly built up a strong and apparently very dedicated fan base. It features a Doc Brown-style scientist but with a slightly darker side, and his very average grandson. It may not sound like much, but it's one of those things that you need to see to understand what the hype is all about.
And there's plenty of that, as the whole McDonald's sauce incident proved. However, not everyone that got the special pack was as lucky as Rachel Marie, a graphic designer from Michigan. She got up early one morning and sat in line at her local McDonald's, with eight more people in front of her. When her turn came, she got the sauce but didn't spray it over her meal. Instead, she kept it and advertised it on a Facebook group where people trade this kind of stuff.
She received plenty of tempting offers, but she decided to push it. "There was actually a large response with some nice pins," she told Business Insider. "But if I could get a car, I thought, why not ask?" She did, and a fellow "Rick and Morty" fan offered his red early 2000s Volkswagen Golf Mk. IV in exchange for the coveted sauce pack.
That sounds like a sweet deal for Rachel Marie, but if you ask us, the joke's on her, only she doesn't know it yet. She will, however, the first time she'll have fries and realize she can't squeeze the Volkswagen Golf to make them taste better.
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