Another Sriracha shortage could be coming. A severe drought is to blame.
Another Sriracha shortage could be coming. A severe drought is to blame.
Huy Fong Foods said it was halting its Sriracha sauce production until after Labor Day. Experts said the blame lies on a severe drought in Mexico.
“This case is very poignant because it shows how an extreme weather event — that has been fueled by climate change — results in major disruptions,” said Guillermo Murray-Tortarolo, a climate scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/05/08/sriracha-shortage-climate-change-drought-mexico
Link without the insanely long tracking blurbWithout the gift link code.
That long thing on the end is a gift link token. What it does is enable non-subscribers to bypass the paywall for two weeks after it's generated.
Ah my bad
Glad I bought 7 bottles of Ho-Ya Sriracha from Costco! (Don't judge me, they don't have it in store and I wanted to avoid the grocery fee)
But for real, I eat Sriracha almost every day. I wouldn't survive a shortage.