[HanaShiratori]

It's a tiny ass article from a small (? don't know this website) news platform / blog. They bothered to do some research on that topic + find & interview someone who might provide some insights - or at least has proven knowledge about that topic.

How is that considered *low* effort? I understand criticism of authors where they literally copy paste some random tweet, but critizising this as *low* effort sounds a little unjustified to me.

[yunohn]

Agreed that it’s better than a copy paste tweet.

It’s just that I didn’t learn much from the documentary guy /because/ none of what he said was insider-equivalent.

It was just common sense, and maybe that’s all this niche blog was going for. Fair enough.

[interestica]

Were you expecting insider information? I saw the title ("What's going on at Sriracha?") as leading to a general overview -- not everyone even knows there's any kind of shortage or problem at the company. And not everyone realizes some of the supply process that could lead to a shortage.

[yunohn]

I’m not sure if we read the same interview. The documentary guy also just hand waves towards chili pepper shortages, which is what the original company email also clearly says. There is no real additional information, just filler.

I’m not convinced that the average person would find it hard to understand that a shortage of the input ingredient would cause an output crisis.