Video has emerged of huge queues at a McDonald’s restaurant in Los Angeles after an event over its discontinued Szechuan Sauce that had been brought back for one day.

In the video, filmed on October 7, hundreds of people can be seen queuing outside and inside the McDonald’s to get their hands on the sauce.

The sauce had become a cult item after being mentioned in the “The Rickshank Rickdemption" episode of Cartoon Network's Rick and Morty by character Rick Sanchez.

Says the filmer: "This is the view from inside the only McDonald's in LA to receive the Rick and Morty promotional Szechuan Sauce. You can see the front of the blocks-long line outside the window and people pushing and shoving trying to cut their way to the front.

"Inside the store, people push and shove and scream at each other while employees frantically try to please the mob. Shortly after this recording ends, someone who realized they weren't getting a sauce without a blue ticket jumped the counter and ran off with all the sauce, prompting the police to shut down the event.”

McDonald’s has since tweeted: “You spoke. We’ve listened. Lots more #SzechuanSauce and locations. Details soon. And that’s the wayyy the news goes!:

This is the view from inside the only McDonalds in LA to receive the Rick and Morty promotional Szechuan Sauce. You can see the front of the blocks-long line outside the window and people pushing and shoving trying to cut their way to the front. Management (girl with blue tickets) is poorly attempting to implement a ticketing system at the last minute to designate who was there first, but they had not been watching the line so they had no idea who was there since the night before and who cut in line. The gentlemen blocking the door convinced her that he was trustworthy and knew who was there first, but according to others who were at the front of the line he was just letting all his friends jump the line. Inside the store, people push and shove and scream at each other while employees frantically try to please the mob. Shortly after this recording ends, someone who realized they weren't getting a sauce without a blue ticket jumped the counter and ran off with all the sauce, prompting the police to shut down the event.