Where did all the Sriracha go? Sauce shortage hiking prices to $70 in online markets (www.cbsnews.com)

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tl;dr: sriracha is selling for ~$40-$70 a bottle due to a shortage of red jalapeño crops, caused by climate change (specifically, extremely hot, dry weather as well as landslide effects from various climate events in the previous years). huy fong says sriracha is resuming limited production but did not specify when this production began or how limited it was.

wonder how they'd be doing if they didn't try to screw over underwood ranches, who are apparently not having much trouble sourcing the peppers at all

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wasn't there a Sriracha shortage this time last year too? Because I bought a bunch of it and then realized the post-underwood Sriracha was not the same. It's too sweet now with not enough heat.

Edit: yes there was.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Wasn’t it because they fucked over their single main chilli supplier?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

yeah, i mentioned them fucking over underwood in my post lol. i wouldn't say it's solely because of that situation, as climate change is the reason their various cheaper suppliers don't have as many reds to sell in the first place, but losing underwood basically lost them their safety net for situations like this

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