The Great 2023 Sriracha Shortage

[WLJ]

PANIC!

People paying upwards of $70 a/bottle.
Shortage reportedly cause by a chili shortage due to a failure of the spring harvest

Sriracha sauce shortage causes prices to spike upward of $70 a bottle
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/sriracha-sauce-shortage-causes-prices-spike-upward-70-bottle

[K Frame]

Time to corner the market!

[Perd Hapley]

Oh teh noes! A shortage of an inexplicably trendy, 3rd-rate hot sauce! We're doomed!

[Ben]

I'm a Cholula guy myself. I'll have to check prices next time I'm at Costco. I usually buy the two pack there, which lasts me a while because I'm a wimpy white guy. 

[230RN]

Same old bullcrap.  Create or take advantage of some hokey problem causing a "shortage" like weather or our warehouse burned down or epidemic or insect invasion or a volcano erupted on Gumazi Island or we lost power or a hurricane tore the roof off or whatever, and raise  prices.

Price = f ( Demand / Supply )  You should remember, if the denominator gets smaller, the quotient gets bigger.  They do.

Same old bullcrap.  Pay more, get less.

[charby]

There are other brands of Sriracha style sauce that seem to be in full stock.

[K Frame]

I enjoy Sriracha for a few limited uses. It's definitely got a much different profile than most other hot sauces, but I'm not that crazy about it that I'm worried about a shortage.

[WLJ]

Going to add 50 bottles to my survival stash if I can find that many. May need to get some paper towel and TP to now that I thinking about it, down to 500 rolls of PTs and 780 rolls of TP last time I checked the COVID/nuclear war bunker. Almost panic levels.

[dogmush]

If you go through 50 bottles of Siracha, you should definitely get more TP. You'll need it. 

[WLJ]

If you go through 50 bottles of Siracha, you should definitely get more TP. You'll need it. 

Check!
Get lot more TP.
Sam's! here I come!
Checked their website limit 10 cases. That's 45 rolls x 10 per trip.

[K Frame]

50 bottles would definitely cause some pressure testing....

[Tuco]

The Sriracha scare began in 2021/2022.  One of my daughters enjoyed it and when her bottle ran out we couldnt find it anywhere.  When I went to the nearby Mexican grocery to pick up a case of red jalapeños for my annual hotsauce they had DOZENS of bottles - current date and no dust on the bottles - so i grabbed 2.  They are unopened.

Anyone got some HP 10mm they wanna trade?

[Hawkmoon]

50 bottles would definitely cause some pressure testing....

I hear carbon-fiber works well for resisting pressure ...

[WLJ]

I hear carbon-fiber works well for resisting pressure ...

You hear cracking?

[bedlamite]

You hear cracking?

That's not an implosion.

[MillCreek]

You hear cracking?

Do the bottles crack or craze?

[230RN]

You hear cracking?

No but your eyeballs start crazing before they actually let go.  Time to Smurface.

OOPS.  Sorry.  MillCreek got that one in before I did.