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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYT had a good article explaining the Huy Fong sriracha shortage. The company had a payment dispute with their pepper supplier who supplied the millions of pounds of red jalapeños needed annually to make the sauce. The pepper company terminated the agreement and was awarded damages.
Now Huy Fong has to patch together shipments from smaller growers in Mexico where production is unreliable. It seems to be a self-created problem.[/quote]

This is the reason for the shortage. It wasn't the Ventura County, California pepper company that terminated the agreement it was Huy Fong trying to be greedy. Now they don't have a consistent supplier of peppers. From the Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsuit-underwood-ranches-20190712-story.html
 "The family-owned Underwood farm was once the exclusive supplier of the chile peppers at the core of Huy Fong’s rooster-labeled sauces. The trial, which began in early June, came to a close last week when a civil jury determined that Irwindale-based Huy Fong breached its contract with the chile grower and committed fraud by intentionally misrepresenting and concealing information."

This is the link to the original farm that grew Huy Fong's peppers for the sriracha for 30 years. They are now making their own sriracha sauce- original and dragon style. You can order them online. 
https://underwoodranches.com

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