Guess what? America’s #1 chili sauce Sriracha just joined the world of hyperinflation — No Stock!
Fun Fact: Sriracha is actually Thai but it’s offered by every single Vietnamese joint and now, they even have Sriracha Mayonnaise, Sriracha Almond, and pretty sure they come out with Sriracha Condom soon…
There’s a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame
Sorry, Sriracha fans, your favorite hot sauce is running out nationwide.
The company that makes Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, wrote in an email to customers in late April that it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to “severe weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers.”
The spicy sauce has something of a cult following, and so when the news filtered through, some fans took to social media to express their dismay and post about panic buying (with varying degrees of irony.)
Panic buying of Sriracha spotted in Brooklyn
Grocery stores in some parts of the country have already started running low on stock, and restaurant owners have been facing higher prices.
Michael Csau, co-owner of the restaurant Pho Viet in Washington D.C., has been paying much more in recent weeks for his Sriracha orders.
“Usually when I bought one case, it was roughly around $30 to $32. Now it’s up to $50, almost double the price. If it keeps going up, we cannot afford it,” Csau said.
If the price gets much higher, Csau said he would probably have to switch to a different brand.
“But people, they are used to the taste right now. So when they taste it, they’ll know right away,” he said.
Florence Lee, who was at Csau’s restaurant waiting for a bowl of pho, summed up her thoughts on a Sriracha swap-out: “A little bummed out.”
“Because this is where I’m like, you have to have the Hoisin sauce and the Sriracha, together!” she said.
Fuck Yeah, Put Sriracha On Every Fuck Thing…
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Other food could be affected too
The shortage is due to a failed chili pepper harvest in northern Mexico, where all of the chilies used in Sriracha come from, according to National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Guillermo Murray Tortarolo, who studies climate and ecosystems.
“Sriracha is actually made from a very special type of pepper that only grows in the southern U.S. and northern Mexico,” Murray Tortarolo said. “These red jalapeños are only grown during the first four months of the year, and they need very controlled conditions, particularly constant irrigation.”
Irrigation, of course, requires lots of water, but northern Mexico is in its second year of a drought.
“The already difficult conditions were pushed over the limit by two consecutive La Niña events. And the dry season has not only been intense, but also remarkably long,” Murray Tortarolo said.
As a result, the spring chili harvest was almost nonexistent this year. Murray Tortarolo thinks it’s very likely that climate change is a factor, although it requires further study to confirm.
He said that if the drought continued, it was likely that prices for other foods from the region like avocados, tomatoes and meat would rise as well… More
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