Nationwide Sriracha Shortage Caused By Climate Change?

If you’re looking for sriracha, you might have a hard time finding it. Huy Fong Foods, the company that makes sriracha, wrote 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.”

Several grocery stores and restaurants have started paying more for the spicy sauce. Michael Csau, co-owner of the restaurant Pho Viet in Washington D.C. stated; “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. But people, they are used to the taste right now. So when they taste it, they’ll know right away.”

Source: NPR