[Obadiah]

Uh, why in the world would they move from one CA city to another?

[mylife]

Ohio?

[Farmer Dean]

Anywhere but California seems like a good business plan to me.

[Howie66]

I move to declare the city of Irwindale to be a national nuisance and as such, it should be relocated to another corner of the world.

[Abathar]

Avery Island will make a great new home for them, I imagine the people around that area are use to the particular odors coming from a hot sauce manufacturer.

[Brad from Tennessee]

The first time I tasted Sriracha was about 20 years ago in a Vietnamese restaurant. I've been hooked ever since.

[Uncle Chip]

Huy Fong Sriracha Controversy [wikipedia]:

The City of Irwindale offered a low interest loan to Huy Fong Foods in 2010 to locate its sriracha factory in Irwindale.

Huy Fong took the loan and contributed $250,000 a year to the city as part of the deal.

Huy Fong built a $40-million factory planned to generate about $300 million a year in sales.

Shortly after Huy Fong paid off the loan early and stopped contributing to the city, Huy Fong became involved in lawsuits brought by its neighbors and the city of Irwindale, who complain of the odors of jalapeño pepper and garlic generated by the plant.

[DManA]

My boys love that crap. They didn’t get the “hot food” gene from me I’ll tell you what.

[cloudmountain]

Relocation Offers Pour In For Sriracha Maker

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From the Internet:
Huy Fong Foods (Chinese: 滙豐食品公司; pinyin: Huìfēng Shípǐn Gōngsī) is a hot sauce company based in Rosemead, California. Beginning in 1980 on Spring Street in Los Angeles's Chinatown, with an initial investment of US$50,000 in family savings after being turned down by a bank for a US$200,000 loan, it has grown to become one of the leaders in the Asian hot sauce market, especially Sriracha sauce.

The company is named for the old Panamanian freighter, the "Huey Fong", that carried Tran and 3,317 other refugees out of Vietnam in December 1978. The rooster logo comes from the fact that Tran was born in the Year of the Rooster on the Vietnamese zodiac. The bottles' trademark green top symbolizes the freshness of the chili used.

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Vietnamese company.

[kik5150]

I can remember vividly the smell of the Hills Bros coffee plant every time while crossing the Bay Bridge.

[9YearLurker]

Texas seems perfect for them.

[Red Badger]

Make your own Sauce recipe:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/how-to-make-sriracha-from-scratch-sauces.html

[Organic Panic]

Put it in my back yard. I love the stuff.

[blam]

How To Make Your Own Sriracha Sauce At Home

[oldbrowser]

I wonder if there is a lawsuit in the making. First the city entices them to build an expensive plant in an industrial area which has an abandoned gravel pit favored for disposing of dead bodies.

Then they declare them a nuisance. I would think that they should at least give the chili maker $40 million dollars and relocation costs.

[shoff]

They must have also forgotten to donate to Obama since the FDA went after them in December. Someone wants them out of business. Does Harry Reid own some property nearby?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosatrieu/2013/12/12/sriracha-ordered-to-halt-production-for-30-days/