Sellers online are jacking up the price for bottles of Sriracha amid an ongoing shortage.

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

  • blazera@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

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

    • Gamma@beehaw.org
      22·
      1 year ago

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

        • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Part of the OP’s post had it

          Underwood Ranches, which sells its own Sriracha sauce, has not had trouble getting jalapeños from Mexico, owner Craig Underwood told The New York Times this week — while also pointing to “huge demand for our product from Huy Fong’s former customers.”