Texas Pete Hot Sauce Sued After Customer Makes Shocking Discovery

Texas Pete is a well-liked scorching sauce model that, through the years, has expanded its merchandise to incorporate a variety of different sauces (like sriracha, honey mustard, and salsa).

However now, one man from Los Angeles, California has filed a category motion lawsuit towards the model for supposed false promoting after studying that the new sauce is not from Texas in any respect. As a substitute, it comes from North Carolina. 

WGHP-TV first reported on the story, explaining that the person, Philip White, purchased a $3 bottle of Texas Pete scorching sauce in September of final yr at a Ralph’s grocery retailer. 

Based on court docket paperwork, “In making his buy resolution, White relied upon the language and pictures displayed on the entrance label of the Product, and on the time of buy understood the Product to be a Texas product…Had White recognized the Product was not made in Texas, he wouldn’t have bought the Product, or would have paid considerably much less for it.”

The swimsuit additional described the individuality of Texas meals and flavoring earlier than it prompt that the model “trades on the fame and fascination of Texas by giving shoppers the impression that its Merchandise are Texas-made, when the reality is, there’s nothing ‘Texas’ about them.”

In actuality, Texas Pete was created by the Garner household in North Carolina, the place the model continues to be based mostly, as said on the about web page of the Texas Pete web site.

The corporate behind Texas Pete, Winston-Salem-based T.W. Garner Meals Co., has till Nov. 10 to reply. 

The corporate instructed WGHP-TV in an announcement: “We’re conscious of the present lawsuit that has been filed towards our firm concerning the Texas Pete® model title. We’re presently investigating these assertions with our authorized counsel to search out the clearest and simplest method to reply.”

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