Add a little elevated heat to your meals with Potli’s Sriracha-like hot sauce.
Much to her and Yi’s chagrin, the other type of feedback they get the most is from people expressing surprise that Potli’s products actually taste good. what we’re trying to do by offering “I don’t think consumers realize that Sriracha and chile oil. We’re excited to we’ve been trained to think that if an celebrate our culture by creating these edible doesn’t taste bad, that means it’s elevated versions of things that we grew very good,” Yi says. “No one thinks that up eating.” way about anything else, especially in Potli’s products are available for California. We care about food delivery from Harborside here. No one thinks ‘not locations in San Jose and bad’ is a big compliment Oakland as well as at for any other category select dispensaries across except for cannabis San Francisco. Beyond “I love that with Potli we edibles. That’s not the difficulties of can share our culture and good enough for us.” obtaining necessary what we love and put it out When permits, Yi and executives at many Chen also had there in a way that hopefully of the cannabis to find properly helps people.” market’s biggest zoned space. They players are older, set up shop in San Christine Yi white and male, Francisco’s Bayview co-owner, Potli the success of two District, where they young Asian-American currently share space with women creating an edibles two other female cannabis company is no small feat. business owners. As they look ahead to the For Chen, it’s the stories from future, Yi and Chen both express customers who use Potli’s products to help immense pride in what they’ve with severe medical conditions that always accomplished thus far. move her the most. “I love that with Potli we can share “Our honey is often used in times of our culture,” Yi says, “and what we need,” she says. “There are people who can’t love and put it out there in a way that swallow whole food or who don’t have an hopefully helps people.” Ω appetite, but need large doses of THC. They can’t eat a whole cookie so instead they sip a cup of tea with our honey in it.” “pantry essentials” continued from page 40
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