Posted on 06/23/2022 7:39:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Apparently the world’s supply of a favorite hot dog condiment doesn’t cut the … err … mustard. And, as a result, we may be looking at an international mustard shortage sooner than we think.
According to Business Insider, a year of poor mustard seed production is the cause of what may result in a lack of mustard on American grocery store shelves in the near future. Experts say you can thank climate change for the large drop in mustard seed production, with Canada (the world’s second largest producer) and France watching the most recent growing season’s yields fall 28 percent and 50 percent, respectively, because of drought and bad weather. As Russia and Ukraine are also large producers of mustard seeds, the ongoing war isn’t helping the importing efforts either.
Before you start practicing eating your favorite summer meals with just ketchup and relish, however, don’t worry. More than likely, U.S. grocery shelves will still have plenty of the condiment to go around. But how much do you like your spicy yellow add-on? If it’s enough to pay more for it, you may want to prepare yourself as price jumps are being felt around the world.
This news comes on the heels of Huy Fong Foods Inc. bracing its customers this past April that it’s suspending production of cult favorite hot sauce Sriracha (the condiment we put on everything) due to a “severe shortage of chili” from the droughts in Mexico — where they’re grown.
i just bought 4 bottles
A 12 ounce bottle of mustard would last me, personally, 2 or 3 years, depending upon how often I eat a hot dog or make potato salad. My husband would stop eating certain foods if he had no mustard to go with them.
I can’t eat a hot dog, hamburger, or make potato salad without it.
For salad dressing, Dijon.
(Need to shop, tomorrow.)
Plenty of Beaver brand mustard around here.
My feelings also. Let me know if there’s gonna be a ketchup shortage, though.
“I’ll just use ketchup on my hot dogs...”
You are not only a barbarian but a heathen barbarian!
Everyone knows that hot dogs require mustard, onions, chili and slaw.
as children, we wuz poor and when I was hungry, I would eat a piece of bread with mustard on it....my brother and sister thought they were superior because they ate bread with mayonnaise on it...of course it WAS Helman’s...
Mustard on biskits,
‘SlingBlade’ enjoyed that!
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Makes a good Tuna Sammich.
Then they came for the ketchup eaters...
>>have you been to the mustard museum in Middleton, WI?<<
Visited, before they moved it to Middleton, from Spring Green.
Interesting place.
German Brown; powdered Oriental.
French’s yellow, feh!
Grey Poupon Dijon just proves you shouldn’t keep chickens in you bathroom.
Indeed. If this happens I’m going to have to raid the company cafeteria for all those little packets of it.
Can’t enjoy a Nathan’s Hot Dog without mustard.
Me too. Kosciusko mustard. Best stuff on Earth.
Mustard keeps almost forever.
Stock up and use it sparingly if you use a lot.
We have a small bottle in our fridge that is a lifetime supply for us.
I put mustard in my Boston baked beans.
I have never heard of Kosciusko mustard. I’m going to look for it to eat with my brats.
I have a lot because I use a lot. But I’ll be getting more now. Thanks for the heads up.
You can grow and make your own mustard easily.
And, as a bonus, mustard greens to the moon and back.
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Interesting and good point.
A lifetime of hating mustard has prepared me for this.
we are gonna see some new item weekly that will be in short supply soon thanks to biden
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With all due respect, it is not “We are gonna see...”
We ARE seeing short supplies weekly if not more often.
I find it concerning that so many just accept that shortages and empty shelves are the new normal...In my years on this earth (with the exception of the Carter years with gas and electricity), I have never seen so many shortages...gas, fertilizer, baby formula, feminine products, medicine, medical supplies, meat, vehicles, appliances, furniture shortages...There are likely many more—probably need a thread highlighting them...for example the coming rolling blackouts/brownouts promised by brandon...
Though Mustard is not a life-altering shortage for most of us ;), the power, baby formula and medicine/medical supplies shortages are.
Hope the mushy middle voters remember in November or I predict we will be seeing many more shortages.
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