Spectacular Failures artwork

Sqirl finds itself in a jam

Spectacular Failures

English - October 05, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MB - ★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed


The Los Angeles restaurant Sqirl had lines down the block for brunches that featured its famous house-made jams on toast. But then a photo of discarded mold scraped from the jam, snapped by someone in the Sqirl kitchen, blew up the internet...and led to a reputation crisis Sqirl is still dealing with.



Our sponsors this week:


Bombas - Bombas.com/spectacular


Ourcrowd - Ourcrowd.com/spectacular



Sign up to receive our brand new newsletter, featuring weekly recommendations from Lauren and the rest of the team at spectacularfailures.org/newsletter.

Read the transcript of the episode at spectacularfailures.org.

You can follow Spectacular Failures on Twitter at @failureshow and like us at Facebook.com/failureshow. We're @failure_show on Instagram. Follow Lauren Ober on Twitter and Instagram at @oberandout.

Twitter Mentions