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3 years agoThis most recent issue looks like a pepper crop failure, but I was thinking of the dispute the owner/inventor of the sauce had with his original pepper supplier a few years back.
(https://modernfarmer.com/2019/07/sriracha-and-its-pepper-farmer-are-mad-at-each-other/)
If I remember correct, after this the relationship broke down and Underwood turned around and started selling the peppers to others and knockoffs started to proliferate.
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