<h5>What’s Sriracha?</h5>  <p>Have you ever had Sriracha (pronounced See-Ra-Cha)? If not, you’re missing out. Sriracha is a hot sauce that’s made with vinegar, garlic, sugar, salt and its star ingredient - sun-ripened red chillies. 
Sriracha can be added to foods like soup, pasta, pizza, hotdogs, hamburgers, chowmein, spring rolls and even chips (sorry if I’m making you hungry). Just a little squeeze of this magic sauce takes a dish to the next level.
</p> <h5>How did Sriracha become popular?</h5>  <p>David Tran was a Chinese man living in Vietnam in 1975. He loved making hot sauces. However, the Vietnamese government began treating Vietnam’s Chinese residents badly. So Tran and his family escaped Vietnam on a ship named Huy Fong and came to America in 1979.
As a refugee hustling for ways to survive in America, Tran turned to his sauce-making skills. He adapted a popular Thai recipe of a hot sauce called Sriracha for Americans. 
He began storing his homemade Sriracha in recycled bottles because he had no money to buy new ones. He began selling them to people from the back of his blue car. People loved it and Sriracha exploded in popularity.
Today, Sriracha is an iconic condiment not just in the USA but all over the world. David Tran has a big company named Huy Fong (named after the ship on which his family escaped Vietnam) that manufactures this globally beloved sauce.</p> <h5>Why has the production of Sriracha stopped?</h5>  <p>Blame it on climate change. Not only is it making the weather insanely hot, but now it’s also coming after our favourite foods. Huy Fong requires about 50,000 tons of chillies each year to make Sriracha and its other condiments. It sources its chillies from secret farms in Mexico (secret because they don’t want their competitors to know the locations of these farms).</p>
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<p>Mexico has been going through a terrible drought that’s led to a crop failure of the chilly harvest. Extreme weather conditions are also affecting the quality of red chillies, leading to further shortages.</p>
<p>Given how unpredictable these conditions are, Huy Fong has put a halt on Sriracha production for the time being.
</p> <h5>Is Sriracha over forever?</h5>  <p>Nope. This shortage is just a temporary tragedy for food lovers. Huy Fong is hopeful that the autumn harvest of the red chillies will lead to lots and lots of Sriracha from September onwards.</p>
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Unfortunately, we can't claim that this is the last time we’re facing a shortage of an ingredient for a food because of climate change.
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Climate change is making a yummy hot sauce go out of production. How is it doing so and when can we resume our food adventures with it? Let’s find out.

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