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

  • AK77@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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