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Huy Fong Foods to start making Sriracha in Texas?

By Jenn Harris

3:34 PM PST, January 7, 2014

Could there be a Sriracha boom in Texas? Sriracha BBQ does sound like a
great idea.

Texas state Rep. Jason Villalba says he has asked Huy Fong Foods, the
makers of the Sriracha hot sauce with the rooster on the label and the
green cap, to move operations to his state.

Late last year, Huy Fong Foods was ordered to partially shut down after
the city of Irwindale filed suit and claimed the plant's chile odors
were a public nuisance. Villalba is hoping the company would be
interested in moving, and has sent owner David Tran a letter with an
official invitation.

"As a public official and a corporate attorney for small businesses, I
am extremely troubled by excessive government interference in the
operations of private, job-creating businesses like Huy Fong Foods,"
wrote Villalba in his letter. "You have worked too hard and have helped
too many people to let government bureaucrats shut down your thriving
business."

Tran was unavailable for comment, and his office said it had not
received the letter.

Villalba, who has been in office for a little under a year, happens to
be a Sriracha fan, but he's looking to move the company for more than
personal reasons. He notes in his letter that in Texas there are no
personal or corporate state income taxes and a plentiful non-union labor
pool. He also mentions that Forbes Magazine named Texas the best climate
in the country to grow a business.

"The great state of Texas would welcome you and your employees with open
arms if you would consider moving..." reads the letter. "...Texas could
provide you with exactly what you need to continue to grow, build and
maximize the opportunities of Huy Fong Foods."

Here's at least one hitch: Huy Fong has been buying peppers from the
same Southern California farm for decades. The peppers arrive at the
plant within hours of being harvested and are used quickly after that.

Villalba offered to have Texas dignitaries visit Huy Fong Foods to
discuss the matter in greater detail.

On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:21:55 -0500, Travis McGee >
wrote:

> Huy Fong Foods to start making Sriracha in Texas?

Let's hope they move.

--
"Corporations aren't people, they're Republicans"
(Rev Al Sharpton 10/7/2011)

On 1/7/2014 11:39 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> It's not easy for them to just pack up and go.

You otoh, leave now.

On 2014-01-08 06:39:31 +0000, Sqwertz said:

> On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:21:55 -0500, Travis McGee wrote:
>
>> Texas state Rep. Jason Villalba says he has asked Huy Fong Foods, the
>> makers of the Sriracha hot sauce with the rooster on the label and the
>> green cap, to move operations to his state.
>
> Several places have also made the same offer. It's just political
> grandstanding. It's not easy for them to just pack up and go. They
> need to have a shitload of acceptable chiles nearby. And right now
> that's in Central California. Their chile supplier, Underwood Farms,
> could very well go out of business. Or at least experience a lot of
> downtime while they migrate 7/8ths of their output (1750 acres) to
> other crops.

Additionally I think they still distribute the vast majority of it in
California. So that would make a number of price considerations change.

On 1/8/2014 9:26 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> They said they only deal with 3 national food distributors (IIRC) and
> nobody else


SFW?

On 2014-01-10, Sqwertz > wrote:

> version of sriracha called "Cha!". Probably not the last one we'll
> see introduced this year by an already existing, well-known brand.

Yep. I was at WW, yesterday, and noticed Kikkoman now has its own
sriracha.

nb

On 1/9/2014 7:37 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> Texas Pete has come out with a
> version of sriracha called "Cha!".
http://global3.memecdn.com/Ill-have-...er_o_35270.jpg

On 2014-01-11, Sqwertz > wrote:

> Kikkoman has had sriracha for at least 5 years in foodservice-sized
> bottles. They started doing retail about 2.5 years ago, from what
> I've seen.
>
> Those off-brands are just getting more publicity right now.

Plus, they come and go quickly up here in the non-haute boonies. I'd
love to buy some habanero Tabasco, but it only lasted on the shelves
fer about 6 mos, hereabouts. The buffler wing Tabasco measured in
mere weeks!

nb

On 1/11/2014 12:56 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> Those off-brands are just getting more publicity right now.

SFW?

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:56:58 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

> Those off-brands are just getting more publicity right now.
>
> -sw


>> Omelet wrote:
>>
>> He hates me 'cause I never slept with him...
>>
>> He hates himself because he is all he has to sleep with
>> I don't know, sometimes he used to seem normal, then he went petty
>> trough vindictive and now I just shun contact. I have enough crazies to
>> deal with in my world without encouraging those who refuse to take their
>> meds.

For the record, I never once even considered sleeping with you. And
you know that. You're the one who somehow got the idea that I was
going to move in with you - and you posted that to RFC just out of the
total blue.

After having met you twice at casual austin.food gatherings 2 or 3
years ago and not giving you any indication that there was any sort of
romantic interest in the least, you somehow twisted that into MY
MOVING IN WITH YOU?

That was just way too Psycho for me. I sat there at stared at the
screen for at least 15 minutes wondering, WTF? That was just way too
spooky. I've met weird, semi-psycho women before but you win, hands
down. Mapi of austin.general still holds the male title, but at least
he announced his psychosis right there lying on the floor of the bar
at B.D. Reilly's rather than romantically obsessing over me for 2
years.

Needless to say, you need to come to terms with what happened and why
your mind works that way and stop making up excuses for your fixation
and disappointment before we become the next Yoli and Michael. I'd
prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

And Jeremy, I was just tired of your decade of bullshit and visions of
grandeur about all these things you're "working on" or have not done
in the past. Even posting a call for meetings with imaginary people
about imaginary projects of yours at "the normal time and place", as
if you are somebody important with a life. I'm pretty sure you're
manic depressive mixed with habitual liar.

Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

-sw

On 1/11/2014 1:17 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> I still have an unopened "Buffalo-style" Tabasco, taht's in no hurry.
> I'd
> prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
> There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

On Saturday, January 11, 2014 1:17:22 PM UTC-7, Sqwertz wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2014 16:53:40 GMT, notbob wrote:
>
>
>
> > The buffler wing Tabasco measured in mere weeks!
>
>
>
> I still have an unopened "Buffalo-style" Tabasco, taht's in no hurry.
>
> Not a fan of Tabasco products except I do like the habanero version.
>
>
>
> -sw

Many of those crappy sauces were made to disguise the taste of rotten or unpalatable foods where there was little or no refrigeration.

You are a sucker.
===

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:17:22 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:

> Not a fan of Tabasco products except I do like the habanero version.
>
> -sw

>> Omelet wrote:
>>
>> He hates me 'cause I never slept with him...
>>
>> He hates himself because he is all he has to sleep with
>> I don't know, sometimes he used to seem normal, then he went petty
>> trough vindictive and now I just shun contact. I have enough crazies to
>> deal with in my world without encouraging those who refuse to take their
>> meds.

For the record, I never once even considered sleeping with you. And
you know that. You're the one who somehow got the idea that I was
going to move in with you - and you posted that to RFC just out of the
total blue.

After having met you twice at casual austin.food gatherings 2 or 3
years ago and not giving you any indication that there was any sort of
romantic interest in the least, you somehow twisted that into MY
MOVING IN WITH YOU?

That was just way too Psycho for me. I sat there at stared at the
screen for at least 15 minutes wondering, WTF? That was just way too
spooky. I've met weird, semi-psycho women before but you win, hands
down. Mapi of austin.general still holds the male title, but at least
he announced his psychosis right there lying on the floor of the bar
at B.D. Reilly's rather than romantically obsessing over me for 2
years.

Needless to say, you need to come to terms with what happened and why
your mind works that way and stop making up excuses for your fixation
and disappointment before we become the next Yoli and Michael. I'd
prefer you use a sniper rifle on me from a few hundred yards away.
There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

And Jeremy, I was just tired of your decade of bullshit and visions of
grandeur about all these things you're "working on" or have not done
in the past. Even posting a call for meetings with imaginary people
about imaginary projects of yours at "the normal time and place", as
if you are somebody important with a life. I'm pretty sure you're
manic depressive mixed with habitual liar.

Sorry I don't fit either of your Ideal Psycho Pal Profiles.

-sw