On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:12:55 -0400, wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:45:17 +1000, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:42:29 -0500, Sqwertz >
>>wrote:
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>>>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.

And a lot of the Arab world is in Asia.