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6728083 No.6728083 [Reply] [Original]

How did sriracha wind up as a meme sauce?

>> No.6728087

>>6728083
Guy fieri probably decided to use it in all of his restaurants, he is the chief advisor to the official meme panel of the United states after all.

>> No.6728096
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6728096

1. Shit gets popular in area that's rather populated

2. Bloggers pick up on an up and coming food item

3. More and more people continue to buy it

4. BTW hot sauce/salsa are the best selling condiment in the US already

5. Anti-hipsters call it memefood

tl;dr OP is a faggot

>> No.6728102

>>6728083
People like it.

Anything that people like is automatically a meme apparently.

>> No.6728104

>>6728083
Because you heard about it online before it arrived in your Podunk supermarket?

>> No.6728116
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>>6728087
He's also the current United States Ambassador to Flavortown. Rock 'n Roll!

>> No.6728117

>>6728083
Because there's a chicken on the front and a green cap. It's a sauce with an identity.

>> No.6728118

>he's a meme
>she's a meme
>we're all cool memes hey

>> No.6729451
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Superior sauce coming through!

>> No.6729468

>>6728083
I blame the bloggers and food writers like Anthony Bourdain who brought pho into greater awareness.

>> No.6729473

FILTHY FRANK - MEME MACHINE - YouTube http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAUvAXCUW8

>> No.6729497

california tbh

think asian americans from viet, hong kong backgrounds in beanies and graphic tees remembering the pho restaurants of their childhood

yes i'm projecting

>> No.6729506

>>6728083
same way all shit becomes meme. that oatmeal faggot. he is the reason hipsters gush about tesla as some kind of super genius too instead of an autist with poor business acumen.

>> No.6729520
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>>6729468
>My food has to be obscure for me to enjoy it

>> No.6729547

>I still remember a time when white and black people would come to restaurants I eat at and think it was ketchup/something you're allowed to fucking spray onto grilling meat

>> No.6729557

So /ck/, what are the latest food memes? Pretzel and now Edamame seems to be up and coming. The red velvet meme seems to be dead, a shame since I like red velvet.

>> No.6729560

>>6729451
Looks damn good, may have to get some.
and make it the next big meme haha I sure do love ruining everything :^)

>> No.6729569

At what point did 'meme' replace 'trend'

>> No.6729578
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/ck/, what are the criteria a food has to meet to get memed by the general public?

>> No.6729579

Some white guy tried it for the first time, told his friends and they all acted like they discovered something new and exotic to douse all their bland food in.

>> No.6729582

>>6729569
You can respect a trend.

You can't help but look with disgust and disdain on a meme.

>> No.6729595

>>6729582

What an arbitrary, untrue set of specifications. What in the hell is inherently respectable about a trend?

>> No.6729606

>>6729595
I didn't say trends are inherently respectable. Lots of trends are stupid bullshit that deserve your animosity. But they can potentially be respected.

But no matter what, there is no respectable meme.

>> No.6729641

I wouldn't care if Justin Beiber was on the cover and it spewed carlos mencia jokes when you open the lid.

That shit is fucking delicious and the best gift of food since cool ranch doritos.

>> No.6729650

It's only a meme sauce to flyover land.

>> No.6729658

>>6729650
Something a flyover would say

>> No.6729679

>>6729579

Nigga, that's the point of sauce.

>> No.6729681

>>6729679
Sauce is supposed to compliment your food tho

>> No.6729684

>>6729658
Spotted the flyover.

>> No.6729742

>>6729520
Don't gotta be obscure, but fucking hell if one (oversweetened) brand becomes so fucking emblematic that they sell t-shirts with their logo in Target (yup) and their formerly small factory has to put out enough fumes to destroy the property values of an entire suburb in order to meet hipster demand...

...then that oversugared brand might be overfuckinghyped as well.

i.e. most people don't have any idea what it is and only claim to like it to impress their friends, which might not sound like a problem until you have to listen to

>yeah man i love cock sauce
-I've had it before too.
>nono, you've had hot sauce, but i found this super authentic and totally random ASIAN brand!
-You mean Huy Fong's Sriracha? It's a bit too sugary for me
>nonono dude this stuff isn't too sugary, it's fucking spicy! i can barely eat it!
-I kinda like using Sambal Oelek, it's hotter and most brands have less sugar...
>nononono dude, you haven't tried the REAL stuff! it's like a volcano in your mouth lol!
>i'll get you some sometime, then you'll see...

>> No.6729840

>>6729547
I tried it, and to me it tasted like ketchup.
Gritty ketchup.

What's the big deal?

>> No.6729873

>>6729840
I actually usually mix some sriacha with ketchup to enhance the taste of my ketchup slightly.

>> No.6729878

I don't understand the apparent hate for it.
I've seen it at both international supermarkets that I go to for years, have been using it for years and my family has been using it for years.

And I'm not even Asian.

>> No.6729994

>>6729878
>I don't understand the apparent hate for it.

its because its gotten so popular and its getting fucking annoying when people constantly talk about it.

>muh sriracha on everything!! XDDD

my family has been using it for years too and even they think its fucking annoying how people are treating it like its some brand new thing.

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>>6729994
>STOP LIKING SOMETHING I LIKED SLIGHTLY EARLIER THAN YOU

>> No.6730006

>>6729994
Are you 12?

>> No.6730009

>>6730003
wow, you just dont fucking understand, do you?

its pretty much what this anon said >>6729742

im guessing youre another one of those fags that wear those sriracha t-shirts and calls it "cock sauce" for the coolness factor.
>lulz, i call it cock sauce and im totally not using it in a euphemism kind of way!

>> No.6730010

>>6730009
You are 12.

>> No.6730013

>>6730010
why dont you leave 4chan and post about it on facebook, fucking normie. thats where you and your meme sauce belongs.
oh and dont forget to post a minion meme talking about how I annoy you.

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>>6730009
>you dont understand
>same argument again
>no you!

mademereply/10

>> No.6730058

>>6729742
You put a lot of thought into being mad

>> No.6730071

>Early/mid 2000s
>hot sauce is only vinegary-shit like Tabasco, Franks, Chalula, Krystals etc
>a pepper sauce that is chunky
>it's sort of sweet and garlicy
>it's perfect for asian cuisine, during a time when vietnamese and thai cooking is starting to become popularized
>big attractive red bottle compared to the little tiny glass ones
>it can be jokingly be called cock-sauce

It's only meme sauce because everyone puts it in their resturants, and if you aren't a regular eater of hot suace it's sort of at that 'threshold' of hotness. It's slightly hotter than most vinegar sauces I think

>> No.6730332

>>6729569
Think of bacon or nutella. People got into masturbatory fights over how MUCH they like to like it, rather than being enthused about the thing itself. Sourdough is a trend, for example, but not a meme

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6730334

>>6730332
>sourdough is a trend

>> No.6730338

>>6730334
>if something has existed for a long time it can't be a trend

>> No.6730341

>>6730338
>being this narrowminded

>> No.6730349

>>6730341
How does that even make sense?

>> No.6730354

>>6728083
The golden meme ingredients:

1) It's good, even if it isn't super great
2) It's a simple food item (in this case a single ingredient)
3) It's already highly accessible
4) It's the darling of an internet icon or internet community (in this case The Oatmeal)

These are the ingredients you need to make a meme food. It's the reason bacon and nutella got so popular too.

>> No.6732606

>>6729451
Made by the same company, but I agree. Superior and more versatile in my opinion. This is like kind of raw Sriracha, a few steps before it's finished.