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Where did all the Sriracha go? Sauce shortage hiking prices to $70 in online markets (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nihilx7E3@beehaw.org to c/food@beehaw.org
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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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[–] lvl13charlatan@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to Yellowbird sriracha, it's a little sweeter but otherwise fine. No desire to go back to huy fong after hearing about what they did to their suppliers.

[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yellowbird is great!

[–] dax@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've legit been enjoying "offbrand" sriracha's way more anyway. My current go-to is https://fixhotsauce.com/

[–] blazera@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thats weird, peppers are some of the most heat tolerant crops, mine have been thriving this summer.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

The “shortage” is because the company tried to screw over the farmers and the farmers refused their deal