"No tear gas made here." Irwindale protested when Sriracha opened its gates, but they all took a tour and fell in love. The cult following formed and grew and continued, and it seems that everything endearing we've heard about this beloved hot sauce is true.
Bouffants and beard covers on. You're walking through the actual factory, and you see everything on the production line from the barrels to the bottles to the finished product to stock the shelves.
Here, the use pre-forms to make their bottles.
Watching the bottling and seeing the lines of sauce conveyed to the boxing side is just soothing. The machines hum a steady lullaby, but the slight sting of the chili peppers keeps your mind alert, your eyes awake, and your sinuses completely clear.
If anything they say in their videos is true, then David Tran may be the only honest businessman left in this modern, twisted world of corporate commerce. "The goal was never to be a billionaire," he says. All he wanted was to let all people eat a rich man's hot sauce at a poor man's price. They don't pay for advertising, and their sales department doesn't exist. They've only adjusted their price once in 35 years, and they don't intend to change it again. There is something to be said about a man making a fortune on his own hard work, and if everything they say is true, David Tran and Sriracha should be an inspiration for all.
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