On the lighter side-"Texas Pete" Company being sued-Not Texican(?)

[packman]

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Texas Pete hot sauce isn’t as Texas as one Los Angeles man thought, according to a class-action lawsuit.

Los Angeles resident Philip White filed a lawsuit in September in California Central District Court against the hot sauce’s producers, North Carolina-based T.W. Garner Food Co., alleging false advertising after he believed the brand was “a Texas product,” according to North Carolina news station WGHP-TV.

White bought a bottle of the hot sauce — which has a label featuring a white star (like the Texas flag) and an all-red cartoon cowboy — and “relied upon the language and images on the front label” before his purchase, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit alleges the man believed the label’s look made it appear to be “distinctly Texan.” However, the hot sauce originated at a Winston-Salem barbecue restaurant in 1929.

WGHP-TV reported that the lawsuit wants the hot sauce brand, which has until Nov. 10 to respond to the complaint, to “change its name and brand and to pay up.”

“There is surprisingly nothing Texas about them,” the complaint claims.


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-pete-hot-sauce-lawsuit_n_63422c20e4b04cf8f36e649f

Think of all the possibilities for suing:
Is Philadelphia Cream Cheese really from Philly (or cheese ?)
NY Bagels -
Kansas City Ribs -

[yardwork]

1. California Pizza?

[GreenWave]

3. Cholula copycat?

vs.

largest known pyramid in world at Cholula:

[bluecollar2]

13. My favourite hot sauce in a bottle

Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

[Mysterian]

19. Have you tried Valentina's?

Equal to Cholula, IMHO, and less expensive. I always buy five big bottles when I go to Walmart.

[bluecollar2]

21. Not recently

I'll pick up a bottle next time I'm at the store...see if my tastes have changed.

[yardwork]

22. Texas Pete's hot sauce goes way back.

[ShazzieB]

5. There is a chain of restaurants called California Pizza Kitchen.

There are some in my area. I've never darkened their door and know nothing about their product(s).

Their website is https://www.cpk.com/ .

[Jerry2144]

6. They're actually pretty good for a chain

Italian-inspired food, but using fresh ingredients (the California influence). It's a fusion of Italian and California food

[yardwork]

20. I know. We have them here in North Carolina.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Moon Pies?

[IA8IT]

4. Buffalo Wings are chicken!! Call my Lawyer. Florida Man/California Man take off hosers.

[Stinky The Clown]

23. Buffalo wings are righteous - they are from BUFFALO, NY!

They were invented by the Anchor Tavern in Buffalo, NY in the 1960s (if memory serves me).

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

[kcr]

10. That was the first thing I thought of

New York City?! Get a rope.

[Genki Hikari]

11. Pace got sold to Campbell's Soup in 1995

It's not made in San Antonio anymore, but I think in Paris, Texas.

The money was just too good for the Pace people not to sell. I think Campbell's paid around a billion to acquire it.

[Oneironaut]

8. Burger King isn't made by a real king!

[Genki Hikari]

9. Philly Cream Cheese is cheese

Philly? Dunno about that part.

The cheese part I do know, because it's the exact same process as Indian paneer: add lemon juice and some salt to heated cream, half/half or whole milk. Stir until it curdles. Strain it through some cheese cloth in a colander until all the liquid has drained out.

Done.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Cream cheese can be made by just straining yogurt in the cheese cloth/collander.

Just dump it in and let it sit for several hours in the refrigerator, and you have cream cheese in the end. It goes a lot quicker if you start with Greek yogurt, which is just strained traditional yogurt. It works with the flavored kind, too, if you want flavored cream cheese. I don't know if yogurt cheese qualifies as "cheese," but I'm not sure cream cheese is technically a cheese, either.

Thanks for the tip on making paneer. Saag/Palak paneer is my favorite Indian dish, and up until recently paneer wasn't available. One would have to make it themselves. It sounds a lot like making fresh ricotta cheese.

[LeftInTX]

28. I'm lazy

https://www.karouncheese.com/product/labne-kefir-cheese-16-oz/1034

This stuff is thick. However, it is not the same as cream cheese.

Yogurt is tart.

Generally, the tarter, the thicker it is for some reason. (Have not been able to figure it out..but my grandmother knew the trick) Her homemade tart yogurt always came with a layer of whey on top, which she was able to remove without straining. As a matter of fact, the layer stayed there and we just scooped the thick yogurt from the base. She must have had a secret. She must have had good cultures.

Or maybe, maybe, my utensils and ware were just too clean. She didn't have a dishwasher etc.

[GoCubsGo]

29. It was probably the culture.

I have noticed variations in tartness among the different styles. Australian-style seems to be a lot less tart than the others. Icelandic skyr seems to be a little less so than American-style, too. A lot of people who make yogurt treat it similar to sourdough starter, where you save some of it to inoculate the next batch. Maybe that's what your grandma was doing.

Seeing that labne makes me really miss living in Chicago. There's a fairly decent-size Middle Eastern population there, so all kinds of goodies available there. Where I live now, not so much. I'm lucky that I can get regular kefir and tahini.

[LeftInTX]

30. I get labne at Middle Eastern market

I just read that you shouldn't wash yogurt making stuff with anti-bacterial soaps. I assume it also means running them through a dishwasher.

My grandmother did not have a dishwasher, nor did she have anti-bacterial dish soap. I wonder...hmmm??

Her culture died with her. It probably exists somewhere in Wisconsin Armenian community.

[Chainfire]

12. As an old plumber, my beef is that American Standard plumbing fixtures

are made in Mexico today. However, I never filed a lawsuit.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Oh, FFS.

It's on the damn label where the stuff is made. How does this schmuck even have a case?

[Deuxcents]

16. The lawyer(s) are as pathetic as the complaint

Looking for a quick buck.

[Bayard]

17. The definition of, "frivolous."

[Hotler]

18. People like this are the reason we don't have Lawn Darts anymore.

[CatWoman]

24. the Trump effect in full swing mode

sue early and often.

[Midnight Writer]

25. Maybe I'll sue McDonald's over their French fries. And Arby's for their Horsey Sauce.

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Has Texas been granted special rights to the origin of sauces with "Texas" in the name?

No? Well then, case closed. When you buy Cheddar cheese, do you expect it to come from that area of Somerset, England? No, because that doesn't have a ruling about special origin.

If I saw "Texas Pete" sauce, I might think it came from a guy called "Texas Pete" - which would imply he invented it outside Texas, because in that state, he'd just be "Pete". I would neither think there must be "something Texas" about, nor that it contained any trace of a Pete.

[LeftInTX]

27. I believe the only trademark on Texas are Texas wines...

Even that one is iffy as Texas wineries are now importing grapes due to the fact that Texas is not the best place for vineyards. (Pierce's disease has taken out vineyards)