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The hot sauce that convinced ketchup it peaked too early.

means A spicy, garlicky, tangy hot sauce made from chili peppers, vinegar, sugar, and salt, typically squeezed from a bottle with a green cap and rooster logo.

from Named after Si Racha, a coastal town in Thailand, where a vinegary chili sauce was said to be first made to accompany seafood. The sauce traveled and mutated — the version most of the world knows, with its iconic rooster bottle, was created by a Vietnamese-American company founded by an immigrant who began bottling it in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, named simply 'Huy Fong' after the ship that carried him to the US. So the famous rooster sauce is Thai in name, Vietnamese-American in making — a immigrant kitchen staple that went global.

origin
Named after Si Racha, a Thai coastal town
rooster logo
Huy Fong founder was born in Year of Rooster
heat source
Red jalapenos, not scorpion-pepper bravado
factory smell
Nearby residents once sued over the fumes
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