Judge Considers Closing Sriracha Hot Sauce Factory

[yuiyoshida]

LOS ANGELES November 23, 2013 (AP)
Associated Press


A judge has declined to act immediately on a request to close a factory that residents say is stinking up their Southern California city with spicy smells produced by the manufacture of the popular hot sauce Sriracha.

City News Service reports that Judge Robert O'Brien did agree Friday to take Irwindale's request for a preliminary injunction to close the plant under consideration. The judge didn't indicate when he might rule.

Huy Fong Foods says there is no reason to close the plant now because harvest season for red-hot Jalapeno peppers, the sauce's key ingredient, has passed.

Residents say when the peppers are ground into sauce during summer months their eyes water, they have trouble breathing and they must stay indoors.

The issue could eventually be resolved with a trial.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-considers-closing-sriracha-hot-sauce-factory-20986683

[Vincardog]

1. In the mean time the Koch Bros. still manufacture formaldehyde and give cancer out for free.

[baldguy]

4. Well, the Koch Bros. aren't some foreign Chinky-communist Huy Fong Foods

They run the Yankee-Doodle Happy Jesus Patriot Chemical Corporation. How could anyone be against that? It would be like disliking the McDonald's "Apple Pie" Food Product® (made with real HFCS!*) that your mom used to buy for you.

(*which is, ironically, manufactured by the Yankee-Doodle Happy Jesus Patriot Chemical Corporation.)

[Warpy]

2. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Don't you dare take my Rooster Sauce away. There will be blood!

I hope adding filters to their exhaust systems will solve the problem. I do hope they've looked into this.

[rucky]

3. If this happens

it's proof that there is no God.

[LaydeeBug]

5. Shit. I'd better stock up now. nt