The Sriracha Factory Could Get Shut Down. Panic?

[Razgovory]

It is a for the "heat seeking foodie", sounds like a hipster to me.

English?

It's for the "heat seeking foodie", sounds like a hipster to me.

[garbon]

http://news.yahoo.com/us-spicy-smell-row-threatens-famous-sauce-supply-025733811.html

A judge refused Thursday to order the closure of a US factory which makes famed Sriracha chili sauces, after neighbors complained of spicy smells.

The California city of Irwindale, outside Los Angeles, had asked for Huy Fong Food's facility to be closed and that the company be forced to improve odor-filtering measures.

But Los Angeles Superior Court judge Robert O'Brien said there was not enough evidence to justify immediate closure of the factory, owned by America's biggest supplier of sauces popular internationally, notably in Asia.

"You're asking for a very radical order on 24-hour notice," the judge told lawyer June Ailin, representing Irwindale.

The legal action had threatened next year's supplies of Chili Garlic, Sambal Oelek, and the wildly popular Sriracha "rooster" sauce, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The chilis for next year's sauce supplies are all processed in a three-month time period that is just at its peak, after the peppers were harvested and ground within a single day to maintain their fresh taste, the Times said.

Neighbors also complained about burning eyes and throats from the factory.

"The odors are so strong and offensive as to have caused residents to move outdoor activities indoors and even to vacate their residences temporarily to seek relief from the odors," said the city's lawsuit, filed on Monday.

But company owner David Tran said air filters already prevent odors escaping as much as is physically possible -- and he also alleged that some of the complainants do not actually live next to the facility, but further away.

"To filter 100 percent, I haven't found any engineer (who) can do it," the Vietnam-born businessman told local radio station KPCC before Thursday's ruling, adding that the best that can be achieved is stopping 90 percent of smells from escaping.

"The neighbor complained to us. We thought that, no, the punch of the chili won't (reach) 1,500 feet away. I don't buy it," he added.

Sriracha sauce, of which Huy Fong Foods is the biggest producer in the United States, takes its name from the town of Si Racha in Thailand, where the hot sauce was first produced.

Phew!

[Habbaku]

Raz will be furious. 

[Scipio]

Who? What? Never heard of it.

That's cause you aren't a hipster.

Only hipsters go to Chinese restaurants?

I haven't seen it in a Chinese restaurant.  It is a for the "heat seeking foodie", sounds like a hipster to me.

That's because they use it in the fucking kitchen, you moke.

[Eddie Teach]

I think pretentious upper and upper middle class, not hipster when I see the word "foodie".

[Razgovory]

I think pretentious upper and upper middle class, not hipster when I see the word "foodie".

There seems to be a lot of overlap.

[garbon]

I think pretentious upper and upper middle class, not hipster when I see the word "foodie".

There seems to be a lot of overlap.

That's true.

[katmai]

Fear the Rooster!

[Habbaku]

Respect the cock.

[DontSayBanana]

Ah, so its a chinese food hot sauce? Thank you.

When I go to a chinese restaurant and want to eat a spicy hot dish, I order a spicy hot dish. I have never added hot sauce, to my chinese food.

More commonly known in this area by people who won't even attempt to pronounce Sriracha as "rooster hot sauce."  Big plastic bottle of red sauce, green cap, white rooster on the label.  Also popular in soul food places around here, for some reason (I'd expect to see more Tabasco when we're going the stereotypical route).

[Habbaku]

"Hipsters" have a reason to freak out again :

http://reason.com/24-7/2013/12/12/california-regulators-halt-shipping-of-s

Sriracha hot sauce manufacturer Huy Fong Foods cannot ship out any more sauce until mid-January because the California Department of Public Health has begun enforcing stricter guidelines for the company.

Their three sauces, Sriracha, Chili Garlic and Sambal Oelek, now must be held for at least 30 days before they can be shipped to food distributors and wholesalers, the company confirmed Wednesday. It's not clear whether the hold is a new requirement. The Department of Public Health did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The production delay comes amid a heated legal battle with the city of Irwindale, which sued the hot sauce manufacturer over spicy odors that residents say caused a raft of health issues.

[Grey Fox]

Yes! The disparition of that evil sauce must be top priority for America.

[derspiess]

Also popular in soul food places around here, for some reason (I'd expect to see more Tabasco when we're going the stereotypical route).

I believe it spilled over from Chinese take-out.  All women of color who work downtown here must get some spicy Chinese takeout for lunch at least twice a week.

[DontSayBanana]

This thread makes me want to get a Sriracha Chicken Melt from Subway.

[garbon]