Man Sues Texas Pete After Learning Hot Sauce is Not Actually Made in Texas
Turns out Texas Pete isn't as Texan as some might believe. A Los Angeles man has filed a class action lawsuit accusing Winston-Salem-based T.W. Garner Food Co. of false advertising after learning that its Texas Pete hot sauce is made in North Carolina—not the Lone Star State.
As reported by North Carolina news station WGHP-TV, in Sept. 2021, Philip White purchased a $3 bottle of Texas Pete—which has a label featuring the famed lone white star of the Texas flag and a cartoon cowboy with a lasso— at a Ralph's grocery in Los Angeles. The suit states that White made the purchase while relying "upon the language and images displayed on the front label of the Product, and at the time of purchase understood the Product to be a Texas product," according to the complaint. "There is surprisingly nothing Texas about them," it continues. The complaint also alleges that the ingredients of the Louisiana-style hot sauce come from "sources outside of Texas."