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IRWINDALE, CA. - AUGUST 22, 2014: CEO David Tran, left, has his picture taken with Maggie Guzman, right, as 300 sriracha fans tour Huy Fong Foods in Irwindale on August 22, 2014.
In 2017, Huy Fong sued the grower, which quickly filed a cross-complaint accusing the hot sauce empire of a breach of contract that the grower said had cost it more than $20 million in losses.
Huy Fong's sriracha sauce (/ s ɪ ˈ r ɑː tʃ ə / sih-RAH-chə; Thai: ศรีราชา, pronounced [sǐːrāːtɕʰāː] ⓘ; [3] Vietnamese: Tương Ớt Sriracha), also referred to as sriracha, cock sauce or rooster sauce [4] due to the rooster on its label, is a brand of sriracha, a chili sauce that originated in Vietnam.
Huy Fong Foods was founded by David Tran (born 1945), an ethnic Chinese businessman and a former Major in the South Vietnamese Army. [7] Tran, after leaving Vietnam in a cargo boat, arrived in Boston in the spring of 1979 as a part of the migration of the Vietnamese boat people following the Vietnam War. [8]
A Sriracha shortage is looming now that the manufacturer, Huy Fong Foods, announced plans to halt production until the next chili season, after Labor Day.
In the United States, sriracha is associated with a jalapeño-based sauce produced by Huy Fong Foods [9] [10] and is sometimes referred to as "rooster sauce" or "cock sauce" [11] from the image of a rooster on the bottle. [12] Other variations of sriracha have appeared in the U.S. market, including a sriracha that is aged in whiskey barrels.
Huy Fong made three chili sauces, but it was sriracha that really caught on, first in California’s immigrant communities, and then on a much vaster scale. Kara Nielsen, a food trends researcher ...
As of Mid-April 2007, Huy Fong announced publicly that the company is temporarily out-of-stock on ALL products and NOT taking any orders due to the shortage of chili peppers. Few local distributors, knowing that the company is still open for business even though they claimed they have stopped production, find this story very hard to swallow.