--- title: McDonald's Szechuan Sauce from Rick and Morty Sells for $14K description: Fans of the show "Rick and Morty" have also petitioned McDonald's to bring the sauce back. canonical: https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-18T16:11:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:55.507Z og:title: McDonald's Szechuan Sauce From 1998 Just Sold for $14K on Ebay og:description: The seller said he found the sauce in "a really old car" og:url: https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4ca760033cb0196/6988c360bc6cfc50893e0f22/mcd.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: mcdoanlds-szechuan-sauce-rick-and-morty og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: McDonald's Szechuan Sauce From 1998 Just Sold for $14K on Ebay twitter:description: The seller said he found the sauce in "a really old car" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4ca760033cb0196/6988c360bc6cfc50893e0f22/mcd.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # McDonald's Szechuan Sauce From 1998 Just Sold for $14K on Ebay by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Apr 18, 2017 4:11 PM UTC  A McDonald's fast food restaurant sign is seen in Beijing on January 9, 2017\. US fast-food giant McDonalds will sell a controlling stake in its China and Hong Kong business for up to 2.08 billion USD to a consortium including state-owned Citic and the Carlyle Group, it was announced on January 9\. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) A McDonald's fast food restaurant sign is seen in Beijing on January 9, 2017\. US fast-food giant McDonalds will sell a controlling stake in its China and Hong Kong business for up to 2.08 billion USD to a consortium including state-owned Citic and the Carlyle Group, it was announced on January 9\. / AFP PHOTO / NICOLAS ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)Photograph by Nicolas Asfouri—Getty/AFP by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Apr 18, 2017 4:11 PM UTC A 20-year-old dipping sauce from McDonald’s sold for nearly $15,000 after a mention in the show _Rick and Morty_. A [listing for the Szechuan sauce](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mulan-Szechuan-Dipping-Sauce-1998-/122431719473?hash=item1c817fc831), which was released as a promotional product for the Disney movie _Mulan_, closed with a winning bid of $14,700. “I just bought a really old car, while cleaning it I found a packet of this sauce.,” the listing states. “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.” The premiere of _Rick and Morty’s_ third season featured main character Rick citing the sauce as his series arc even [“if it takes nine seasons.”](http://time.com/4722503/rick-morty-mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce/?iid=sr-link1) The episode spurred fans to petition McDonald’s to bring back to sauce, especially as a [live action-version of _Mulan_ is set to be released in 2018.](http://time.com/4518450/disney-sets-a-date-for-live-action-mulan-movie/?iid=sr-link1) Several petitions have been added on Change.org, the largest with over [35,000 signatures.](https://www.change.org/p/mcdonald-s-bring-back-mcdonald-s-chicken-nugget-szechuan-sauce) > [](https://twitter.com/McDonalds/status/848573499874709506) McDonald’s responded on Twitter by playing off one of the character Rick’s catchphrases, “Wubba lubba dub dub.” A spokesperson for the company also told [_USA Today_](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2017/04/04/mcdonalds-listens-rick-and-morty-fans-who-want-szechuan-sauce-back/100045828/)that they were not ruling out the idea of bringing back the condiment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/"},"headline":"McDonald's Szechuan Sauce From 1998 Just Sold for $14K on Ebay","datePublished":"2017-04-18T16:11:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:55.507Z","description":"Fans of the show \"Rick and Morty\" have also petitioned McDonald's to bring the sauce back","url":"https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Fast Food","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4ca760033cb0196/6988c360bc6cfc50893e0f22/mcd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4ca760033cb0196/6988c360bc6cfc50893e0f22/mcd.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"mcdoanlds-szechuan-sauce-rick-and-morty","caption":"CHINA-US-ACQUISITIONS-MCDONALDS-CARLYLE-CITIC","creditText":"Photograph by Nicolas Asfouri—Getty/AFP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4744570/mcdonalds-szechuan-sauce-ebay/","name":"McDonald's Szechuan Sauce From 1998 Just Sold for $14K on Ebay"}}]}] ```