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An anecdote 
INT. ALEX'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT
A party. College kids drinking, eating pizza. Everyone talking, no one listening. ALEX takes a slice of pizza from the greasy box, puts it on a paper plate. Goes to kitchen. Pulls down HUY FONG SRIRACHA HOT CHILI SAUCE. Proceeds to drown the slice with stream after stream of thick red paste. ALEX takes a big bite. GIRL looks on, horrified.
GIRL: What are you doing?
ALEX: You've never heard of sriracha?
GIRL: No. That's just hot sauce.
ALEX: Hah! You ignorant fool. You can't have any.
GIRL: Um, okay. Not like I wanted to anyway. Freak.
GIRL walks away. ALEX continues devouring the slice, sweating from the chili spiciness, oblivious to how insane he looks.
ALEX (V.O.)
That girl doesn't know about sriracha. Good. More for me. More, more, more, for me.
CLOSE-UP on Alex. His eyes close in silent joy.
FADE TO BLACK.
Spice Spice Baby!
Sriracha takes the cake (rice cake,maybe?) as the Best Hot Sauce Ever. Tabasco sauce is good for Southern/Southwestern cuisine, but Sriracha is versatile... and while it's based on Thai/Vietnamese hot sauces,it's made here in the USA(!)
Sriracha has a gradual burn. It starts out sweet, but it's also garlicky and of course,hot. Use it in moderation- or you'll find yourself on fire! I remember first having Sriracha on Ramen noodles. It's also good on eggs, and on Asian cuisine. I wouldn't put it on pizza, but people differ.
Sriracha wakes you up like the rooster on the bottle in the morning!
The Ketchup of Tomorrow
Love this stuff. I use it on eggs, rice, potstickers, potatoes, fried foods, pizza, chicken, basically anywhere you put ketchup and then some. It's been called the country's fastest growing condiment, coming straight outta Rosemead, CA. Note that the price shown currently on Amazon ($7.48) is nuts. I got my 17 oz. bottle in NYC Chinatown for $2.99.
Hot, Hot, Hot
This sauce is great on any thing, if you want to kick it up a notch.
Very good sauce...in it's proper place 
In it's class (asian), Sriracha is without equal. Most people not from Minnesota or Wisconsin should be able to eat this. But I must disagree with most reviewers and warn you...it is not a sauce for all purposes.
If you're looking for a general-purpose pepper sauce, then be aware that peppers are the third child in this mix, behind eldest sibling - garlic, and middle child - sugar.
Because of that, it will compete with the flavor of most foods, not compliment them. This sauce will not be a component of what you are eating, it will be THE flavor, dominating all else. That's OK for bland dishes, but a disaster for others that have already complex flavors.
If you like the classic asian combination of initially sweet, then lingering heat, you cannot go wrong with Sriracha.
If yer from Minnesota or Wisconsin, stay away from 'dis an' stick with dat super-spicy tomato ketchup, ya betcha!
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