Talk:Sriracha

message: To anyone who wants to keep adding "also known as Cock sauce" to the article, please note that we have two articles - this one, and Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods). It is the US Huy Fong brand (widely considered synonymous with Sriracha sauce in the US) that is often known as Cock sauce or Rooster sauce (because of the brand logo), and that is clearly stated in the Sriracha sauce (Huy Fong Foods) article. The generic Thai-origin Sriracha sauce, which exists in the form of many different brands in SE Asia, and in the rest of the world outside of the US, is *not* generically known as Cock sauce or Rooster sauce. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:24, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's a good and true point, and I may fail to assume good faith here, but I think that anons adding "Cock sauce" to this article are just trolls who like to see the word in print. Elizium23 (talk) 15:31, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You might be right - I guess we can always semi-protect the article if it continues. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:28, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

text: Seems like a pretty lame effort at brand advertising to me.  Sriracha sauce is much bigger than Huy Fong Foods and doesn't need the association.  (xtc283Xtc283 (talk) 00:15, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cock sauce" 

message: Lay's Sriracha flavor is just one of a number of prepared foods using Sriracha sauce.  There is nothing particularly unique about Lay's preparation, save perhaps their marketing skills, and it is my opinion it does not warrant a mention here. But if the consensus is that a mention of their potato chips should remain, I'll go ahead and balance out the article and enter a number of other example preparations and marketings of food with sriracha flavor.  Marteau (talk) 21:08, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think such things are of sufficient importance to include. As a comparison, we have an article about cheese but it doesn't list promotional campaigns for cheese-flavoured products. Also, in this example it would add undue weight to US promotional activity when Sriracha sauce really isn't an American product at all - it's an Asian sauce, and the vast majority of the world's production and consumption is outside the US. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 21:26, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lay's Sriracha Flavor 

message: http://countrystore.tabasco.com/TABASCO-Sriracha-Sauce/productinfo/03829/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.108.8 (talk) 07:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  imitator 

message: The "Sirarcha" Documentary by Griffin Hammond was released February 26, 2014. The film discusses all of the origins of the sauce, as well as modern uses of the sauce. It answers many questions such as 'why isn't the sauce trademarked?' and 'who originally created the sauce?'.
The youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXOAx58LBDo discusses the some of the main points of the documentary.
According to the Documentary, many of the ideas discussed on this page are inaccurate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Firebolt391d (talk • contribs) 02:44, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the article's references, much of the film is inaccurate. Seligne (talk) 14:37, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sriracha" - Documentary by Griffin Hammond 

message: I'm not sure how to add this, but I think people would appreciate this explanation of si vs. sri: "The ‘Sri’ in Sri Racha comes from the Sanskrit word ‘Sree’ which means ‘holy’. In Thailand, it is pronounced as ‘si’ but still written as ‘Sri’. In Thai, it is common to write all loan words as they were originally pronounced." 
https://www.hope-rehab-center-thailand.com/location/sriracha/
While on the topic of translation, Google says Racha means 'rake' in Thai. https://translate.google.com/?safe=active&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS694US694&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#th/en/racha
Marcusreese (talk) 15:25, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Translate only works with Thai script when translating Thai (and even then it doesn't do a very good job). Racha here corresponds to rājā. I'm not sure if discussion of the name's meaning necessary in this article. Probably in the one about the town. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:50, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Si vs Sri 

message: This article is about a generic sauce called "sriracha", and as such the word should not be capitalized, unless it is part of a proper noun (brand name). But, before making dozens of edits, I wanted to check here.
Any objections to changing "Sriracha" to "sriracha", except when part of a brand name? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 12:41, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Capitalisation of such place-based names seem to vary. Parmesan is usually capitalised, but champagne never is. Merriam-Webster and Lexico are the only Onelook-listed dictionaries to actually include the word sriracha; both have it uncapitalised. So I guess the proposed change is probably fine. --Paul_012 (talk) 17:35, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the OED Third Edition (June 2012 addition) also has it uncapitalised.  Dbfirs 17:55, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sriracha" should be lower-case in this article 

message: For non-Southeast Asian readers, feel like it's too easy to confuse the popular American sauce for being the entire class of the sauce. I know there's multiple things done already to emphasize that it's a general category, but I think the picture being of the American brand isn't helping, especially considering the picture on the American brand's article is the same. Feel like we should use a picture of another brand. Pictures draw the eye; feel like the picture being different would go a long way. toobigtokale (talk) 01:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just removed the infobox, which was inappropriate for this article. That leaves the two-image comparison at the top. If someone could take a photo of a variety of brands on a supermarket shelf (that avoids showing too much of the packaging to be a copyright concern), that would probably be ideal. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:42, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main picture