Your thoughts on the status of sriracha ...

I think it's a combo of 1 and 3. While it has jumped the shark in terms of marketing with regards to every other restaurant having some sort "new" shitty Siracha dish. However it's a solid condiment that many people keep around the house now.

you sound like an 80yr old man. Too overpowering? huh

You need to remember that it began as a sauce a Vietnam refugee who made it in his kitchen for friends and neighbors. They started requesting it at local restaurants and it has now become what is probably the most well known sauce besides Tabasco. I used to bring it to Louisiana for friends before they started selling it there.

A lot of the restaurants like Taco Bell that offer sriracha dishes are making their own sauce and not using the store bought sriracha.

I don't think it is going away anytime soon. I keep a bottle at my house along with many others including Tabasco and Louisiana Hot Sauce and love it on KFC's grilled chicken among other food items. One of the people I used to bring it to in La does use it like ketchup. He puts it on brisket, eggs, rice, damn near everything but ice cream.

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What's your opinion of it's current status in the culinary world? 1. Jumped the shark 2. A fad that's still gaining popularity 3. Achieved mainstream status as an everyday condiment

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Trends go unnoticed to me. I've used it before it jumped the shark, became a fad, and achieved mainstream status. I've always used it and will continue to do so no matter what's going on outside my kitchen.

I actually prefer the chili garlic sauce instead...



I mixed it with some stir fried bok choy last night.

It's a tasty condiment with specific uses, but not a condiment I use every day and not on most things I eat.

PS - Any idea when it started becoming more popular? I first heard of it about 12 years ago. Tabasco's version is good.

We share the same sentiments, Degas. I've been using it way before it's "pop icon" status, and will continue to do so long after the dust has settled.

I think it's a great asset to a fridge no matter how many sharks it's jumped. It's best to have an arsenal of hot sauces and it's a good one.

Sambal oelek

Interesting that a product that has never advertised can become as big as it is:

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even though the company has never advertised in the U.S. It also has no Facebook (FB) page and no Twitter account, and the home page of its website serves as a kind of memorial to its nonchalant relationship to the wider world: It states plainly that it was last updated on May 10, 2004.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-02-21/sriracha-hot-sauce-catches-fire-with-only-one-rooster#p1