Posted on 04/17/2014 8:22:45 PM PDT by Nachum
Sriracha Hot Sauce may move its factory out of California because of a months-long battle with the city of Irwindale over the smell from the factory, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Sriracha sauce creator David Tran said on Wednesday that there have been multiple offers from other cities in California as well as other states to move his factory and leave Irwindale behind. He invited the various interested parties to tour the factory and see if the smell would be a problem.
One week ago, the Irwindale City Council voted unanimously Tran’s factory to be declared a public nuisance even though Tran had promised he would fix the problem by July 1. Tran is worried that even if he fixes the smell, and residents still file complaints, he will be embroiled in legal disputes for the foreseeable future. He told the Times: "[City officials] tell you one thing, but think another. I don't want to sit here and wait to die.”
Irwindale City Attorney Fred Galante, along with Irwindale officials, feel that all they are asking for is an action plan, the Times notes, and they claim that Tran is being intransigent in not providing one to this date. Galante said of Tran’s threat to move: “This seems very extreme. It's disappointing giving that [air quality officials] have explained that there are readily available solutions.”
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I knew an old timer who walked the streets of Boston with a large bottle of the stuff.
He put it on EVERYTHING.
Does Subway still sell sandwiches with it?
Only in the cities
totally addictive . pretty soon you are putting it on cheerios and pretty much anything else
Ever try it on humus?
Serves California right. If he wants to be close to the chiles, well, there’s no shortage in New Mexico.
no, but there is always tomorrow. they started serving it at work and are now having to bring it in by tanker car. taken over the place.
Why would Irwindale, California want what they term to be an intransigent, extreme public nuisance to remain within their fair city? Seems like a win-win to me, Mr. Tran. Leave.
Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County would welcome you, and you wouldn’t even have to abandon your pepper suppliers in Ventura County. Not all of California is nutty, dictatorial and anti-business. Not yet, at least.
And then there’s Louisiana, Texas and numerous other states that would welcome you with open arms. You don’t have to just sit there and take it, despite the fact that the city council of Irwindale seems to believe that you do.
We would love to have them here in Georgia... nothing like a good hot sauce to make life tasty
I travel to Dallas most of the time for business. It is really getting crowded.
It’s not the heat, I can go Scoville to Scoville with the best of them.
I guess I go for a drier mombassa pepper type heat, or the Asian chili oils (Lee Kum Kee... I could probably live off of that and rice). Some of the Carribean habaneros are good on the sweeter side, but the habs overwhelm the sweetness.
Either way, inarguably, a super high quality product, and I couldn’t be prouder of Mr. Tran and the American public’s embracing of his product!
Show what a Patriot you really are, Mr. Tran, and tell those totalitarian, racist, busybodies to stick it and move your company back to real America!
There’s still a lot of California that’s “real” America. This site is headquartered in Fresno, you know.
He got an interest free loan and installed the only approved device (I wonder whose brother-in-law made it). It wasn't tested for food service and shut down in days due to grease clogging it.
They were nice enough to let him shut it by-pass it but he still had to repay the loan.
I grew up with Tabasco on the table. I also like Sriracha Hot Sauce. Both are very low in sodium content compared to many other hot sauces. I like all flavors and heat of hot sauces. I put them on everything. And when I say I put hot sauce on everything, I mean everything, including meats, salads, vegetables, rice, beans, cottage cheese and anything else I put in my mouth. I’ve even sprinkled some on bananas, popcorn and ice cream. I don’t like bland food and most food tastes better to me with some fire on it.
Hot sauce aficionados are not shy about using hot sauces on their food.
It will get less crowded after the EBT money runs out and the fires die down
Urban renewal
True enough.
Although Victor Davis Hanson’s dispatches are disheartening.
Would it be too much to ask that NONE of Our Great Nation would be questionable in its “Americanism”?
But maybe I’m not thinking “progressively” enough when the “enlightened” want to run our Nation off a cliff.
There’s lots of wide open space in Florida where odeur doesn’t matter. Also, peppers grow great here and it’s easy to get some really great peppers from Jamaica, etc.
Florida wants Srirachi!
It sure is (addictive). I had my first taste of Thai food in 1991, and I have been a Sriracha junkie ever since.
Why are you still in Pennsylvania, then?
Well I hope he doesn’t take his business overseas to some cheap Asian country like, say, Thailand.
It would be a shame if we had to import a home-grown American product from someplace like that.
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