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Where did all the Sriracha go? Sauce shortage hiking prices to $70 in online markets
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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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.
yeah, there was also one in 2020, & a lot of people (myself included) had trouble getting it in parts of 2021 too. huy fong's had supply issues for years now & it doesn't seem like they're ever getting out of it with how high demand sriracha is
agreed, that combined with the insane prices & the fact that hf sriracha is spending more time out of stock than in is the reason i'm giving up on the brand & moving on to other sauces, the last 2 bottles of huy fong we had cost ~$40 a few months ago, & we all agreed it wasn't really worth the price at all
It's not entirely about demand. They screwed over their supplier and that's a lot of it. You can buy from underwood ranch directly for $10/bottle plus shipping and they have it in stock so that tells me it isn't just that jalapenos are unavailable. Maybe jalapenos are only unavailable to Huy Fong because nobody wants to sign a contract to grow for them.
I agree, I mentioned the underwood situation in my post too
My local Asian store had pallets of it at the normal price when everywhere else was out of stock or overpriced.
Has anyone tried the Underwood Ranches siracha? I think they were the original supplier. Wondered if it is spicier like how I imagined Siaracha to be like long ago.
I've tried it and it's not exactly the same but I'm also not incredibly picky and liked it. There are also other brands of Sriracha in the store I shop at not so I'm just going to buy those. I don't want to support Huy Fong (or however it's spelled) specifically after what I heard about how they did underwood dirty. I mean if I find it at the store and it's a good price I'll buy it because this isn't one of those social issues I need to be 100% principled on but I'm not going out of my way to get it.
Wasn’t it because they fucked over their single main chilli supplier?
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