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Posted on 05/13/2014 1:13:32 PM PDT by lowbridge
David Tran fled communist Vietnam in December 1978 on the Huey Fong, a Panamanian freighter that carried Tran and more than 3,000 other refugees to freedom. According to a 2013 profile in the LA TImes, Tran and his family settled in Los Angeles, where he soon realized he couldn’t find work or a hot sauce that he liked.
Tran began to make his own hot sauce and sold it in Chinatown. He named it after its place of origin (Si Racha, Thailand) and started a company in 1980, Huy Fong, which he named after the freighter that brought him to the United States.
In the late 1980s, Tran moved his operation east of LA to Rosemead, California, and the company opened a new factory in 2010 in nearby Irwindale.
After numerous complaints from neighbors about the smell and irritation, the city filed suit in October 2013.
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Though Tran has ultimately decided he will not move Huy Fong’s operation at this time, he did fire a shot across the bow at big government regulations and excessive litigation. In an interview with NPR, Tran compared government pressure in Irwindale to that of communist Vietnam:
“Today, I feel almost the same [as when I lived in Vietnam]. Even now, we live in [the] USA, and my feeling, the government, not a big difference [between the U.S. and Vietnam].”
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If anybody would know a communist state it would be this guy. These are the kind of people that make America great. Never take EBT, SNAP BS. Work hard, pay taxes, employ people, sell a sellable product. They manufacture, create, invent. None of these traits are possessed by Obama and his henchmen. They have no idea of what a hard day at work is. And don’t care to know.
He’s not the first ex-pat of a communist country to say so.
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The factory is appropriately located in an industrial area not a residential one and anyone foolish enough to buy a home bordering on an industrial park deserves what they get. Besides the factory is making a FOOD product. What could be a cleaner factory than one making food products.
Love the sauce; I’m an addict.
He is now one of my heroes.
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Hey ES A the sauce is good
B what do you expect from Republic of Califrornia it is West coast verion of Nam
This is same city that couldn’t land the LA Raiders back in 1980s any NFL fan would tell you this same Irvindale
And he’s 100 percent right..look around, can’t say anything without getting banned, smeared, your livelihood taken away from you..close your eyes and you’d swear your in Venezuela or Cuba..its scary times indeed
Yep. He oughta know.
Amen. American greatness at its best. Its such a darned shame that we conservatives love Capitalism and freedom for everyone. /s
It is made by a different Company, Lee Kum Kee based in Hong Kong, but this mayo is actually made in the City of Industry Kalifornia, real close to this Sriracha manufacture in trouble with Irwindale.
“The factory is appropriately located in an industrial area not a residential one and anyone foolish enough to buy a home bordering on an industrial park deserves what they get.”
Great, you misunderstand what is going on here.
The good citizens of Irwindale, though tiny in number, have been augmenting their income for years by shaking down businesses in this manner. They are quite shocked that David Tran didn’t just quietly pay the graft like they expected. This whole thing blew up into a far bigger deal than they expected.
This company is one of my largest label accounts. They are good hard working people and pay a lot of taxes, employ a lot of people and buy all of their supplies and ingredients from local California suppliers. Try driving into the meat processing plants in Vernon, Ca.
It’s nauseating or an Oil refinery in Wilmington or a Garlic plant in Elroy or living near an airport. The city knew who they were and what they produced and yet they begged them to leave Rosemead (in a residential area) and come Irwindle (in a commercial mfg area). Now they are suing him? Not even communist would pull this Crap!
Truth hurts.
The headline is misleading. It’s the city government that’s harassing him, not the “US government.”
We have a bottle in our cupboard. :)
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