Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 23, 2018

Fast Food:

McDonalds has reportedly picked up 20 million packets of their highly (and weirdly) coveted Szechuan sauce for "Rick and Morty" fans.
The Wrap reports the new packets will be available by next Monday, Feb 26. The demand for the packets began when Rick said "I'm not driven by avenging my dead family, Morty! That was fate. I'm driven by finding that McNugget sauce!" on an April, 2017 show.
That was enough to drive fans to various McDonalds hoping to get some of the sauce --and they promptly ran out. Now starting Monday, the sauce will once again be available --for as long as it lasts-- with a purchase of the McNuggets.

Idle gossip & unconfirmed rumors:

The NY Postreports tech billionaire MICHAEL DELL bought the most expensive home ever sold in the Big Apple --a $100.45 million-dollar condo.
The 11-thousand foot condo is a duplex penthouse on top of the One57 building at 157 West 57th Street, and is about a thousand feet above street level on what is called "Billionaire's Row" in the city.
And, if you'd like to be Dell's neighbor, there's still more than 50 of the 130 units available in the building, although at least 73 of them have sold.

Trendspotting:

"Black Panther" is a huge hit and now the merchandise is here. The fashion street style community Pizzaslime has teamed up with the WU-TANG CLAN's clothing line Wu Wear on a range of streetwear for everyone who wants to show their pride in Wakanda, The collection celebrating Marvel's "Black Panther" includes sport hoodies, crewnecks and T-shirts emblazoned with the fictional African country in a highlighter yellow atop the rap group's recognizable W logo. (Bartha)

Taking everything much too seriously:

A guy in India drank an entire bottle of ketchup in less than 30-seconds.
DINESH SHIVNATH UPADHYAYA set a new world record by downing 14-ounces of the tomato-based sauce in 25-point-37 seconds. Dinesh said, "I am doing this record to prove myself as best in this amazing world in this particular record field." His previous Guinness Record achievements include stuffing 88 grapes in his mouth, and eating nine-and-a-half ounces of peanut butter in one-minute. He holds also the record for fastest time peeling and eating a grapefruit and most oranges peeled and eaten in three minutes. (Still)