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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by CalRobert on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:21AM (#27658967)
Tragically, I stopped being able to get this sauce a couple years ago when the EU blocked imports due to one of the ingredients (I'm struggling to find a source atm though).

It was magic! It made Irish cuisine bearable.

The alternatives - Flying Goose, etc. are oversweet, underspiced, and dreadful.

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by CalRobert on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:53AM (#27659490)
I found a source!

https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/sriracha-sauce-can-no-longe...

Some discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/k3udmu/huy_fongs_sr...

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by namdnay on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:11AM (#27659582)
I don't think it's a question of it being blocked due to the additive, it's just that no-one has gone through the hassle of declaring the additive and doing the tests to show that the quantities ingested will be below levels etc. Maybe the demande for that specific sauce isn't strong enough, and importers prefer just to switch to a similar brand with no sulfites
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by randompwd on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:22AM (#27660401)
> It made Irish cuisine bearable

Wow, what condescension.

Just dump some sugar and processed cheese on your food and you should feel right at home!

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by CalRobert on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:36AM (#27660515)
Got Supermacs for that :-)

In fairness, Ireland has fantastic cheese, among other things, but spice is hard to come by.

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by Deradon on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:30AM (#27659016)
Here in Germany I can still get it in almost every supermarket. So I don't know if it is the EU blocking imports.
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by bzzzt on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:08AM (#27659216)
Is it the original from Huy Fong though? In the Netherlands there are a few different variants of the sauce for sale, but the original is only sold through smaller shops.

I like this one, packaging looks almost the same: https://static.ah.nl/static/product/AHI_43545239353338303138...

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by Deradon on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:34AM (#27659382)
You're right. What I've got is NOT the original. I was misled by the almost identical look, wow. (got a FlyingGooseProduct here)
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by CaptainZapp on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:04AM (#27659542)
In Switzerland you can get it too.

Given that food laws need to be aligned with the EU I also don't believe that the block is an EU wide thing.

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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by sakarisson on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:40AM (#27659070)
Same in Finland, which is known for being very by the book when it comes to EU regulations.
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by CalRobert on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:54AM (#27659498)
It seems to be a recent change: https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/sriracha-sauce-can-no-longe...
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by Milner08 on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:23AM (#27659298)
You're probably seeing Flying Goose brand, which is very similar in appearance (bottle, etc) but not the same taste.
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by sakarisson on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:20AM (#27659628)
Good guess! I checked in my fridge, and it does indeed have a flying goose logo.
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Re:Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team o... by papito on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:31AM (#27659358)
See, this is the nanny state they bitch about over here in the US :)

But hey, at least you have real cheese. American cheese is not cheese.

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