On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:45:17 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:42:29 -0500, Sqwertz >
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:51:00 -0400, wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:36:13 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 7:01:38 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-07-11 12:52 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> > On Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 3:58:11 AM UTC-10, songbird wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> >> a large bottle of it costs about $4 which is pretty cheap - i buy
>>>>> >> it at a little asian food store because i like to give them the
>>>>> >> business instead.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> songbird
>>>>> >
>>>>> > My guess is that one party wanted more money for their peppers and
>>>>> > the other wanted to pay less. They probably could have worked it out
>>>>> > but that's the way things escalate in divorces.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I first bought Sriracha because the stuff was going for under 2 bucks
>>>>> > a bottle. It seemed like a pretty good deal. It was love at first
>>>>> > bite.
>>>>> > It's pretty good stuff, and a little bit goes a long way.
>>>>
>>>>What's unusual about Sriracha is the large amount of sugar in it.
>>>>Asians like to do that with their sauces.
>>>
>>> The most ridiculous blanket statement ever.
>>> Asia is a big place with a very diverse population... anyone know the
>>> population of Asia?
>>> http://worldpopulationreview.com/con...ia-population/
>>
>>AMERICANIZED Chinese restaurants (especially those in Hawaii) like
>>to do that. Otherwise, not so much in China itself.
>
>I guess those Hawaiians are completely confused with their mix of
>cultures. So they add sugar to all their food to keep everybody happy.
>Mixed cultures always lose authenticity.

A very large part of Asia is Russia... they are not into sweet
spicy-peppery hot foods.