As a hot sauce user (though of many different brands), I hope they get this figured out, since restaurants often "default" to Sriracha as their only available "heated" condiment...

and use it a lot. But I love Sambal Oleck even more... so I can deal with this!

I said goodbye to ketchup and have never looked back!

it was unbearable. The smell of hundreds of pounds of coffee, roasting 24 hours a day, was stifling. It smelt burnt.

Irwindale is inland, hard against the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It can get stiflingly hot out there. I can't fathom what the Sriracha plant must smell and feel like on a pleasant day, let alone when the temperature climbs to 100 and the wind ceases to blow. Much as I like hot sauce, ground chilis spewing capsaicin all around, chili sauce boiling in hundred gallon pots, the strong smell of hot sauce lingering everywhere -- I just can't imagine what that'd be like.

Hope they can reach an agreement. Otherwise, Sriracha's going the way of the San Gabriel dairy cows -- out towards the desert.

Now if the city finds them out of compliance, they can impose their own solutions.

People there hated chocolate.

They especially didn't like days they made French onion soup. They ended up shutting the plant down.

Guess what replaced it? A sewage processing facility.

Then salt the earth.

Maybe Washington DC, or Chicago…..

Seriously, though, we would love them over here in Savannah!

hee!

Kids who grow up in paper mill towns don't know what farts smell like until they've spent 6 months away from home.

unforgetable.

I live 2 miles from cranky mccrankypants magazine manufacturer Magpul. They're terrible neighbors, but they're going to take their ball and go elsewhere since Colorado put sensible restrictions in place (or at least they say they are going. )

This part of Colorado gets pretty consistent 5-15 mile an hour west to east winds, and there's not much out east past the soon to be former Magpul building for a good 10 miles. Also, we like hot sauces in this part of the world. Also, we like companies whose waste is both biodegradable and useful (as a small critter deterrent, nothing beats chile pulp waste). We can be pretty sure that Siracha manufacturing won't put plastics manufacturing effluent into the water supply, unlike the very bad Magpul neighbors.

Huy Fong would be welcome in Colorado.

Sriracha isn't really all that hot. It's not very high on the Scoville scale. 2,200 units. But I suppose it's worse in high concentration.


http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/?view=sauces

Now if they don't come into compliance, the city can come in and impose its own solution.

But it will have to be some place where no one lives. So what do the workers do?

What is the economic impact of Huy Fong Foods leaving town? Maybe the townspeople should think about that.

or remember when they gave away $10 million to Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders as an enticement for him to move the team there .... from a 1999 LA times article:

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/08/local/me-6055

that should have never been built in a populated area?

Obviously the smell issue can be mitigated.

Huy Fong can move anywhere. They have a major brand on their hands.

I visited the factory, and the slick corporate tour. Very rural setting.

Not specifically an island, but at least a semi rural area with no next door yuppies, at or near sea level (altitude changing how things taste) and with lots of air circulation. They need to avoid valleys where the smell of chiles being processed gets trapped for days at a time.

There's your nuisance. Four crabby neighbors. Sriracha should complain about them. City councils only commit ultimatums like this if they have members or family directly affected.

I live near a sewage treatment plant that leaves a horrible order a few days every year in August. Big whoop. That's to be expected based on where I chose to live.

I just read that one of the city council men lives 500 feet away from the factory. What a contemptible ass hat.

And my tongue hot!

If they want to be good corporate citizens then they should control the emissions or move.

The City of Industry will be fine either way.

They have been there forever (over a generation). So who in Council has interests on the land, or friends who do? I cover small town politics. San Diego is big city politics but El Cajon, where I am currently having dinner at the moment after another exciting school board meeting, where plenty of that is at play , is classic small town.

So that be my question? Who is interested ion the land? And yes previously non complainers can start filing them.