Is anyone else here a Sriracha chili sauce fan? IMO, it's the most awesome chili sauce ever created, and nothing else even comes close. This is the stuff made by Huy Fong Foods out in Irwindale, California.
You probably recall seeing them on the natlonal news a few months back, when the Irwindale city council threatened to shut them down for apparently offending the olfactory senses, and singeing the nostrils of some of the city residents, to say nothing of polluting the already less-than-pristine California air with the pungent odor of fermenting chilis wafting upward from their fermentation tanks. Apparently the sauce is fermented for many months before being bottled for sale. This leads me to believe that it might possibly be a leading candidate in the food-with-the-ultimate-histamine-level competition. But I digress. No wait . . . this is actually vital to my story.
So anyway, eventually, after Huy Fong threatened to pack up his chili vats, and move them to a more appreciative community in another state, it dawned on the city council that Siraracha is a national icon of sorts (to say nothing of the fact that they obviously supply the city and state with a heck of a lot of tax revenue), so the city council relented and decided that it might be better to recognize that the chili fumes do indeed smell a lot like tax money, so maybe the odor wasn't so offensive after all.
It took them a while to come to that realization, because apparently their brains must have also been scrambled from all the toxic chili fumes permeating the valley. 
Sorry for the long prologue, but IMO, the Sriracha is a vital part of my experience yesterday. As many members here are well aware, I tend to try to check things out thoroughly before I decide that a food is causing problems for me. When I was having histamine issues (and antihistamine rebound problems) a month or so ago, I suspected that Sriracha was part of the problem, so yesterday I checked it out to attempt remove any doubt.
For lunch I usually eat jalapeno pork sausage and either Fritos or tortilla chips — a combination about as close to manna from heaven as one can get, as far as I'm concerned.
The only thing that can make it better is to douse the sausage with Sriracha sauce. But I had been avoiding it since my previous histamine event. So the day before yesterday I used the Sriracha sauce on the sausage. So far so good — nothing happened the first day and night.Yesterday about mid-morning I ate 2 bananas that were a little riper than I usually allow (I usually eat them when they are barely ripe). In fact, I put them through a Yonana appliance, together with a few slices of a fresh peach that I had allowed to ripen for a few days, all frozen, of course. So this should have at least caught my mast cells' attention.
Then for lunch I had jalapeno pork sausage of course, again doused liberally with Sriracha chili sauce. Then about mid-afternoon I spent roughly a half-hour or so in hundred-degree heat trimming some tree limbs, to add the thermal exercise effect to my mast cells, and by late-afternoon I was all set, and already showing some results. So I definitely had their attention, at that point.
A few itchy bumps began to show up on my lower legs and ankles, plus a couple on my belt line. By bedtime my lower legs were covered with a pretty good scattering of bumps and they were itching like mad, so after taking a shower, I slathered them with a 5 % benzocaine cream, and took an Allegra. I woke up a couple of hours later, scratching and itching at approximately a level of close to 12, on a scale of 1–10.
I finally managed to get back to sleep an hour or so later, and by morning, the itchy rash appeared to be pretty much faded away.The 24-hour Allegra began to wear off before noon (so it only lasted for roughly 12 hours or less), but the symptoms seem to be minor, so I'm still trying to ignore them. Of course I skipped the bananas and Sriracha today
and I'll decide in an hour or so whether or not to take an Allegra at bedtime.I believe that I've convincingly demonstrated to myself that Sriracha is a potent source of histamine, and while it may be OK to use on an occasional basis, I probably can't get away with using it every day, unfortunately.
Tex
That sorbet was good, too!
A hard pill to swallow for a former Texas girl now living in the southeast…. 
