Here’s when In-N-Out expects to bring back its yellow peppers
For a couple of months now, In-N-Out customers have felt a real sense of misery when they reach the pickup counter. As the pungent smell of grilled onions and melted cheese intoxicates the space, they request a side of yellow peppers to complete their meal, only to discover something is terribly wrong.
The California burger chain is facing a major shortage of those little yellow peppers, or cascabella chili, which is affecting all store locations, an In-N-Out representative told SFGATE via email. In-N-Out has temporarily replaced cascabella peppers with banana peppers — but the shift hasn’t gone over well with diehard fans.
“Did In N Out really think we weren’t gonna notice them change their yellow peppers to banana peppers?! The audacity,” one customer recently lamented on Twitter. “I love In-N-Out. But replacing yellow peppers with banana peppers is Not the move,” another customer tweeted in January.
Cascabella peppers are often mistaken for pepperoncini or banana peppers, which take up a similar hue but are significantly milder in taste. Comparatively, cascabella peppers pack a bolder punch and can reach 1,500 to 5,000 heat units on the Scoville scale. With the ongoing shortage, some In-N-Out customers have taken measures into their own hands by bringing store-bought chilies instead.
There’s a widespread shortage of whole cascabella peppers (right) at In-N-Out.
Images via Yelp/Illustration by SFGATEIn-N-Out is aware of the customer feedback on its temporary switch to banana peppers. It anticipates getting its regular supply soon, though a specific date was not provided.
“We appreciate our customers’ concern and we hope to have our standard cascabella chilies available again in the spring,” the representative wrote.
It’s not the first time In-N-Out has left customers high and dry without cascabella peppers. In 2016, bad weather and soil conditions, among other woes, affected the crop and prevented the chain from offering the yellow peppers at its restaurants. Vice reports that the 2016 shortage was considered “the greatest in industry history.”
For now, Double-Double fans need to hold tight until they’re able to sink their teeth into another cascabella pepper at In-N-Out.
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