This summer, sriracha lovers can expect their food to be a bit more milder, as extreme weather leads to more shortages, now affecting the popular hot sauce.
Huy Fong Foods Inc., a Southern California-based producer of the popular sriracha hot sauce — as well as chili garlic and sambal oelek, both hot sauces — notified customers of a potential sauce shortage earlier this year. The company attributed the issue in part to weather conditions, including a drought, affecting the quality of chili peppers used to make their products.
New orders will not be fulfilled until after Labor Day, according to