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Because of the ongoing Sriracha shortage, bottles of the hot sauce from Huy Fong Foods are spiking in price, selling for upwards of $70 from online retailers.
Sriracha is hard to come by these days — at least for one popular brand. Huy Fong Sriracha, which used to go for under $5 or $10 a bottle, is now selling for shocking amounts in some listings ...
Huy Fong's sriracha sauce (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɑː tʃ ə / sih-RAH-chə; Thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐːrāːtɕʰāː] ⓘ; [3] Vietnamese: Tương Ớt Sriracha), also referred to as sriracha, cock sauce or rooster sauce [4] due to the rooster on its label, is a brand of sriracha, a chili sauce that originated in Vietnam.
Huy Fong Foods was founded by David Tran (born 1945), an ethnic Chinese businessman and a former Major in the South Vietnamese Army. [7] Tran, after leaving Vietnam in a cargo boat, arrived in Boston in the spring of 1979 as a part of the migration of the Vietnamese boat people following the Vietnam War. [8]
As the sole supplier of the juicy red jalapeños for sriracha, Huy Fong Foods’ iconic fiery-red chili-garlic sauce, Underwood’s empire of peppers had spread from a 400-acre family farm in the ...
In the United States, sriracha is associated with a jalapeño-based sauce produced by Huy Fong Foods [9] [10] and is sometimes referred to as "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce" [11] from the image of a rooster on the bottle. [12] Other variations of sriracha have appeared in the U.S. market, including a sriracha that is aged in whiskey barrels.
IRWINDALE, CA. - AUGUST 22, 2014: CEO David Tran, left, has his picture taken with Maggie Guzman, right, as 300 sriracha fans tour Huy Fong Foods in Irwindale on August 22, 2014.
In 2017, Huy Fong sued the grower, which quickly filed a cross-complaint accusing the hot sauce empire of a breach of contract that the grower said had cost it more than $20 million in losses.