What killed the hype?
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>>21969745They changed pepper providers and it tastes different, and is 3x more expensive.
>>21969745He fucked himself when he screwed over the pepper farmer. New peppers are shit and brown and it looks like Indian diarrhea. Greed fucked them.
>>21969745>be me sometime in the 2010s>while with my family mention that i like sriracha>they get me a bunch of retarded sriracha branded shit for christmas>kill myself
>>21969745Pepper shortage and supply issues of the guy who made the original sauce popular. Only knockoffs now and they suck.
>>21969753There was no shortage. Sriracha Tran decided he wanted to be greedy and even spy on the way his original pepper grower grew his peppers and his methods.He's a greedy fuck who deserves to lose market share.
>>21969752the sriracha pandering was out of control. I'm pretty sure i was gifted some sriracha longsocks. and this keychain to take sriracha everywhere you go. i never used it because i was scared it would burst in my pocket.
>>21969752Wtf so who made this post>>21969756Was.it the son?
>>21969767I'm not sure who made the final decision overall, but it was absolutely retarded. Now Underwood Farms (original pepper farmers) have their own sriracha which uses the same peppers as the original Sriracha.
>>21969747Reminds me of that tragedy.
>>21969745The garlickyness.
Maybe 15 years ago I got a bottle, it was pretty good and used up within the week. Later I got another one and it was too sweet or something and haven't had it since.
>>21969745It was just a commercial fad like any other. The fad chasing retards moved on to the new thing (they just got off hot honey and are now on "protein" [soy] versions of junk food). >>21969750>>21969753That happened around COVID, long after the peak hype period for sraaracha sauce
>>21969745the "shortage".once people realized food tastes better without it they didn't care to buy it again after it came back.>>21969806protein was before hot honey.it's meat honey now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJBgPWcmrvY
generic knockoffs are cheaper and taste better
>>21969794yeah it seems to vary significantly between batches. I'd like to find a sriracha that's less sweet because the flavors are fine without the sugar.>>21969810such as?
>>21969814>such as?I get this one. I'm sure your own grocery store has an equivalent.
>>21969814>such as?
>>21969810I have tried Goose and Shark and they were both better than current Sriracha. The Underwood Farms is literally just sriracha.
>>21969773I remember seeing some documentary a few years ago about how David Tran is the best employer in the world. I was sort of shocked when I heard he screwed over his supplier, maybe it was the son who knows.
what hype, it's a secondary staple like Tabasco. Not mayo, ketchup level but something most households will have if they eat hot food for white people.
>>21969745God i’d suck the farts straight out of her spray tanned butthole
>>21969745i used to use that shit religiously for like 6 years but then one day i decided i was just done with it. haven't touched it for 8 years. only recently have i even started to use sriracha condiments again
>>21969752>my family loves me
>>21969874>my family
>>21969745Apart from it just being chili pepper, garlic, salt and sugar at twice the price?
>>21969885>twice the pricethey usually say to sell menu items at 3x the cost of ingredients so that's actually a pretty good deal
I still like it, I get those hueg bottles from costcoperfect pairing with eggs
>>21970053It's good on a lot of things but it just lands in the pantheon of sauces on my sauce shelf. Good, Asian Hot Twang good for certain foods, but not gonna be put on everything. Had a similar run to the Tapito/Cholua run and the Southern Boomer Assfire Cartoon Sauce run all of which followed the Indie Barbecue Sauce run about 15 or so years ago. Just expanding American/Western tastebuds as their diets diversify. Nobody should be putting Tabasco on everything when a burrito tastes better with Tapatio, Fried noodles taste better with Sriracha and St Louis Barbecue tastes better with Frankie's F**king Fortified Fire Fart Fluid Ghost Pepper Sauce
>>21970057a burrito doesn't taste better with tapatio than it does with chipotle tabasco, tbqhwyf
People get desensitized to things, rarely does a food trend last. Pumpkin spice is one of the only things I've see last. IPAs had a good run but the association with sois killed their image.
>>21970114>IPAs had a good run but the association with sois killed their image.nah, it was mainly the advent of the alcoholic seltzer, and a renewed interest in fitness, plus a shift away from alcohol and toward legal marijuana by 20-30 year olds. IPAs are still being made and innovated upon, but the craft beer scene has become much more niche because tourists got filtered.
>>21969745>What killed the hype?The quality from one bottle to the next is insanely inconsistent. Sometimes it has a very nice roasted garlic flavor. Other times it tastes like some asshole got lazy and just threw raw garlic clove puree in there.
>>21970114>the association with sois killed their image.the only place that makes that association is this place. IPAs and craft beer in general are doing just fine in the real world
>>21970133Multiple breweries have shut down in my city. Lagers and Belgian style beers have takilen over as the star pick. The IPAs are now usually one or two per brewery, when before they were 70% of the menu. >>21970153I would say you're the sheltered one. Outside of Reddit a lot of men are atleast mildly socially conservative. IPAs are known to be estrogenic amongst normies. Your friend circle made still like them, but they've lost a lot of the market share.
>>21970171>The IPAs are now usually one or two per brewery, when before they were 70% of the menu.that's true and i also think this is a result of brewers that were new in the IPA rush becoming better over time. bombastic high alcohol dry hopped IPAs are like the easiest thing to make. it takes more skill to make something more subtle. maybe breweries are shutting down, but the ones that persist probably have more experienced and gifted brewers who have decided to make more complex styles. that being said, the nee IPAs i do see are more creative than they were 10 years ago.
fucking sucks that you will never get to eat 2014 siracha ever again. The shit used to be RED and now its like orange lol the family that owns it fumbled the bag so hard
>>21970221They'll read comments like these and add red food coloring instead of sourcing higher quality ingredients.
>>21970171lmaokid you need to get off 4chan. >IPAs are known to be estrogenic amongst normies. no it's not lmao. the only people that peddle this are weak effete zoomer incels whose idea of rebelling is telling everyone how much he hates drugs.
>>21969806Might have been a fad, it was legit tasty. Now I won't touch it, not the same.
>>21970171>IPAs are known to be estrogenic amongst normies.wouldn't all beers be estrogenic because of the hops then?a lot of IPAs just taste bad and the people who act like they're tough for drinking them is probably what turns people off rather than anything about estrogen.
>>21970503>the people who act like they're tough for drinking themthis person doesnt exist. you're living in 2010.
>>21969745They cheaped out on the ingredients
You already know
>>21969806>they just got off hot honeyFor a very brief time I was able to buy a hot honey pizza at coles and it was quite nice, but then it just suddenly disappeared, it being part of some broader fad that's gone now explains that I guess
>>21971279Of all the companies that were accused of shilling their products here...I really believe for a time that they were doing it
>>21971279OH YEAH I'M 'VARKING IT
>>21969745>What killed the hype?People made siracha their whole personality, which made the brand cringe
>>21971279Secret Aardvark is weird. It's got a certain sweetness that makes it taste almost more like a spicy barbecue sauce than a normal hot sauce.
>>21969745sriracha was never good. anyone who likes it is just pretending to fit in with the crowd. it's fucking terrible. i could literally beat the shit out of ANYONE that likes sriracha
Pepper supplier dispute and C19 killed the hype.
>>21970171>they've lost a lot of the market share.I wish somebody would tell that to every single grocery store in my city. Years ago they all had pretty diverse selections. But now it's literally just IPAs (50%+), macro piss beer and seltzer. All I want is to be able to buy a good stout without having to make an extra trip to the fucking liquor store.
>>21969752yeah I've had a big sriracha-branded coffee cup in my rotation of three cups for 20 years and it's now marking me as undeniably corny but I've never gone half this long without breaking one so what am I gonna do
>>21970114>Pumpkin spice is one of the only things I've see lastBeing seasonal probably helps a lot
>>21969745i still like it
>>21973356Just need to invent a season for Siracha sauce then. How about June, nobody does shit in June.
>>21973312It's tomato-based so it sort of is.
Better options always existed
>>21969745shit browngreen sauce that looked unappealing
>>21969745I fall asleep so fast when I imagine hurting random women. This pic gave me a good idea... goodnight bros
>>21969745It never died. I have a bottle in my fridge and two in the cupboard.
>>21969823>>21969844It's never the same. Too sweet or some other balance issue. Only the original rooster bottle will do. I tried it first in 1995 at a regional garlic festival. It's not changed.
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>>21973744You never tried the eagle brand. It mogs the original maker, especially now.
>>21973742Who is Kim Chi?
>>21973778Some very overrated chick. You can tell if someone is a cooklet if they like her
>>21973745I slept amazing last night, holy shittry it sometime dude
Them cutting corners to make the shareholders 5 cents richer.
>>21974254It looks like baby shit now
>>21974254is this an effect of not using dye?
>>21974375i think it's just using underripe peppers
>>21974380Yep, underripe, lower quality peppers. They are rushing out a lower quality product with still partially green peppers...and now it is damn near triple the price. What a total disaster. Build a multi billion dollar company with global name recognition and ruin it all over being greedy, slimy fucks. I hope nobody buys their products anymore.
>>21969814>such as?I'm rather fond of Go-tan. A ~350 ml bottle typically lasts me a week.Not a fan of Flying Goose. Too vinegary. Currently trying Crying Thaiger, and it's pretty whatever.
>>21974429>Crying Thaigeri simply will never buy anything with this level of chungus punnery in their name
>>21974431Eh, I make a point out of trying new things once when i see them. Especially if it's on sale. It leads to pleasant surprises every once in a while.
>>21969745i'ts like trader joes. it's ok on (for) some things, but I'm not going to fanboy over it
>>21970114I don’t think the average person cares about soyboy memes. Beer fads just come and go. It went from hoppy ipas to super sweet hazy ipas, now I see breweries have 10 different types of super high abv overly sweet bourbon barrel aged stouts
>>21971279if you ain't varkin you ain't shit
>>21969745I had sex a bunch in my 20's, but realized after the last girl that I just don't care that much and I'd rather jerk off. So, getting old, I guess?
>>21974567nah, i never get tired of railing hot chicks. you might want to get checked for low T or depression or something. hormones can get out of whack as you get older, you might be producing a lot of estrogen.
>>21969756>There was no shortage. Sriracha Tran decided he wanted to be greedy and even spy on the way his original pepper grower grew his peppers and his methods.He's a greedy fuck who deserves to lose market share.He really had no choice. If those pepper farmers decided to make their own sauce or go with a competitor paying more he was fucked. He had no power in that relationship
>>21969763I have been drinking coffee out of this for almost 10 years and its the highest quality mug I ever had. Still looks new after hundreds of trips in the dishwasher
>>21974593clean.
>>21974593as a whistle.
>>21974581Eh, I don't miss it. Sincerely glad for you that you're still into it though, rail a hot chick for me sometime
>>21969745Cute chick, I would totally have marital coitus with her in the missionary position solely for the sake reproduction.
>>21974944start with a fat chick first incel
>>21970092FUCKIN BASED
>>21974946fat chicks need to be taken off the market entirely. it fucks up the whole system.
>>21974375Nah, their pepper supplier only supplied peppers to Sriracha so Sriracha tried to fuck them over in order to increase shareholder profits (not even by a lot). The pepper suppliers stopped doing businesses with them and then Sriracha panicked and scrambled to find a new (and worse) supplier.
>>21974490Underrated
