One diehard fan of the popular Adult Swim show “Rick and Morty” traded his Volkswagen for a single packet of McDonald’s limited edition Szechuan sauce – echoing a key theme from the show’s season three premier last April.
The fan, who lives in Michigan, offered to exchange his early 2000s Volkswagen Golf Mk4 with a 23-year-old graphic designer who lives nearby and managed to snag the very rare sauce.
The graphic designer, who uses the name Rachel Marie on Facebook, was one of a lucky few to get her hands on the sauce in a recent promotion, and she decided to post it as tradable on the social network’s Pin Nation group page – a place where fans of the show trade different “Rick and Morty” themed items.
“There was actually a large response with some nice pins,” Marie told Business Insider. “But if I could get a car, I thought, why not ask?”
And snag a car she did. Both sides confirmed the deal even as BI reported that a title exchange between Marie and the other fan didn’t happen.
The VW-trading fan said that he has another car that just needs some fixing up and that he “just needed me some friggin sauce!”
“He drove the car over so I know it was running,” Marie told HuffPost. “He was a dedicated fan of the show and already had a second car.”
But the “Rick and Morty” super fan may have scored less of a prize than he thought. On eBay, the special sauce packets are selling for upwards of $400 and McDonald’s announced that the sauce would be rereleased in larger capacities this winter.
“You spoke. We’ve listened,” the fast food chain said in a Tweet. “Lots more #SzechuanSauce and locations. Details soon.”
