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Sriracha sauce maker ordered to cease some operations (California)
Market Watch/WSJ ^ | 11/27/13 | Erica E. Phillips

Posted on 11/27/2013 1:44:11 PM PST by barmag25

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The Southern California maker of a popular hot sauce has been ordered to cease operations that have allegedly emitted harmful odors into the surrounding community, after residents’ complaints of health problems prompted a lawsuit.

A state court judge issued a decision late Tuesday finding that Huy Fong Foods Inc., the manufacturer of cult-favorite Sriracha “Rooster Sauce” and other chili sauce products, must “make changes in its site operations reducing odors and the potential for odors” at its Irwindale, Calif., factory. The injunction is slated to take effect on Dec. 9.

Bloomberg Enlarge Image The company, which owns two facilities in the Los Angeles area, won’t be forced to completely shut down operations — which includes bottling its sauces — according to the judge’s order.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; garlic; hotsauce; huyfong; nimby; nimbyism; pepper; sriracha; sriricha
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To: barmag25
Oh, good, another Sriracha thread. The last one revealed the presence of a fanatical sub-culture of Sriracha-heads on FR.

Hot Highlights From the First-Ever Sriracha Festival

21 posted on 11/27/2013 2:19:10 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
"You are correct! The plant was built in the middle of nowhere, then cheap housing was brought in. It’s like the people who move near an old airport like Cleveland Hopkins, and then complain about the noise."

Sounds like the people that take jobs at Walmart and after the probation period decide they want more money because Walmart does not pay a living wage!

22 posted on 11/27/2013 2:23:38 PM PST by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots voted for 0Bama!)
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To: prisoner6

I worked at that Nabisco plant in Pittsburgh. They also had problems at the Philly plant on Roosevelt avenue.


23 posted on 11/27/2013 2:27:21 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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To: Dr. Sivana

“with Crystal original as my go to sauce. I’ll give Sriracha a try. “

Not for all applications. I like it on pork and chicken.

Trader Joe’s Habeniero [sorry, mono-lingual] is too hot for me. Just heat, no flavor.

But if there is nothing else in the cabinet ...

I have been known to pour vinegar into the dregs of a hot sauce bottle, shake it up to dissolve all the remaining ‘good stuff’ and pour it on whatever was next on the fork.


24 posted on 11/27/2013 2:27:26 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: Grams A
"Newcomers to Texas complain about the smell of the refineries. We tell them it’s the smell of money flowing into the economy.

I was born and grew up in a house on the banks of the Tittabawassee River, about six miles upstream from the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. I can remember mornings when the smell of the Dow Chemical Plant was strong enough that you could almost believe that you had to take a bite out of the air and chew it just to breathe. When it was like that, my dad, who was employed as a pipefitter at Dow, used to like to say to those who complained about the odor, "Smells like money to me ..."

25 posted on 11/27/2013 2:28:55 PM PST by BlueLancer ("Oh, man, that's a lot of Indians!" [LTC George A. Custer, 1876, near the Little Bighorn Valley])
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To: Dr. Sivana
... Harold’s Chicken Shack...

I take it that they didn't have a humungous neon chicken sign that lit up the entire neighborhood? /Seinfeld

26 posted on 11/27/2013 2:31:46 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: barmag25

Their stuff is too hot by a factor of about a hundred.


27 posted on 11/27/2013 2:32:58 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: barmag25






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28 posted on 11/27/2013 2:33:21 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

That was a great plant and a Pittsburgh landmark! Did they make Ritz crackers? For some reason that is what I recall.

I had a bar buddy who worked there. IIRC we called him troll because he had a Duck Dynasty beard before it was cool.

I delivered (electrical) things there only a few times.

In any case it seemed like Nabisco wanted out but was willing to take whatever the city/county/state would give to keep it open.

When push came to shove. Mayor Caliguri came up with a plan that turned it over to the workers.

My buddy said then it was only a matter of time before it all fell apart.

And it did.

Haven’t seen him since...hope he is OK.


29 posted on 11/27/2013 2:39:00 PM PST by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I bet Sriracha was there long before the olfactorily offended built their abodes.

Actually not. I live a few miles from their new factory. They just moved there when their old factory in a nearby town got too small.

But on that note, we used to have a dump near here. The city allowed new houses to be built near the dump, and guess what? The folks in the new homes forced the dump to close because they didn't like living next to the dump!

30 posted on 11/27/2013 2:40:44 PM PST by Aunt Polgara
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To: Dr. Sivana

When I got back from Viet Nam I still had eleven months to go and was given my duty station of choice. I took a training job with the Third ID in Wurtzburg Germany. I lived off post in a small one room apartment in the back of a pastry shop. They started cooking at about 4:00 AM and to wake up to that smell was wonderful. Took my wife back 8 years later and that sweet little old lady was still alive and still owned the pastry shop. She was a sweetie!


31 posted on 11/27/2013 2:41:52 PM PST by Dusty Road
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To: barmag25
When I was a kid in the early sixties, on Fridays, the local canning factory [as we called it] bottled ketchup and the entire village smelled like, well, ketchup.

We were lucky, I suppose, just down the road, Gowanda reeked of rotting horseflesh from the glueworks.

People complained, of course, but those factories were the life-blood of tiny communities and everyone had friends and relatives who worked there. That and no one really got sick or died from it.

You just accepted it as a fact of life and went on. NOT ANY MORE!

32 posted on 11/27/2013 2:45:04 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. [Ludwig Von Mises])
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To: bert

I never use it straight on anything as a regular hot sauce, but I have found it is excellent for use in cooking. Mixes well, a little goes a long way. Marinades, stews, soups, pasta sauces, meatballs are just some of the things that I thought it did well with.

FReegards


33 posted on 11/27/2013 2:48:02 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: prisoner6

When Little Debbie cooks brownies, I gain 5 lb just sniffing the air outside.

As for the trains, I saw an interesting movie the other night, THE TALL TARGET. In it, a train is going through Baltimore, and must stop, then be pulled by horses through town because the citizens had complained of the noise.


34 posted on 11/27/2013 2:49:24 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

“Sriracha: Nectar of the gods.”

I’ll second that!


35 posted on 11/27/2013 3:01:26 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: barmag25

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!


36 posted on 11/27/2013 3:38:27 PM PST by Washi
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To: BfloGuy

I grew up in Winston-Salem, NC home of RJR tobacco. We lived only a few miles west of their downtown plant. On certain days the sweet smell of tobacoo would come wafting our way. That was a wonderful odor.


37 posted on 11/27/2013 3:38:53 PM PST by punknpuss
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

The new move ins should be offered the opportunity to pay to have the offending fumes filtered. Otherwise move out.


38 posted on 11/27/2013 3:39:08 PM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

I just figured the plant had been taken over by
NASA for use as a rocket fuel producer.

Good stuff but I prefer habanero XXX Mayan recipe
from El Yucateca.

One ONE drop is all you need.


39 posted on 11/27/2013 3:45:34 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: barmag25

Simple solution, have Hong Fuy refuse to sell the sauce anywhere within a 100-mile radius of the plants, and mark it on all new bottles. And then let the “neighbors” neighbors deal with the idiots. . .


40 posted on 11/27/2013 3:54:13 PM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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