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| - I've been hooked on Pita Jungle for years, that's why I want to write about their decision to replace real Sriracha sauce with a house brand that either hasn't been taste tested or just plain tastes bad.
I'm a hot chili sauce fanatic, especially for Sriracha and Cholula. A few weeks ago our server at Pita Jungle delivered private label green and red hot sauces to our table. The name brand Sriracha was gone. The taste is awful - of both, but my main complaint is the red which I like to eat with baba ganoush.
Additionally, the bottle is some cheap, unsqeezable plastic that takes 2 hands to operate, so you can't exactly put some on a bite while you're eating. The taste is vinegary, without the wonderful nuanced blend of chilis in name brand Sriracha.
For hot sauce lovers, this is quite a negative and, in my opinion, a bad business decision on Pita Jungle's part, akin to a hamburger place deciding they're spending too much on ketchup and starting to bottle their own. To me, a restaurant should do what they do well (cook) and buy their condiments. It's forced me to give up their baba ganoush though, on the bright side, I'm now eating their cilantro jalapeno hummus which requires no accompaniment.
But, honestly, bring back the name brand Sriracha.
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