Texas Pete hot sauce isn’t as Texas as one Los Angeles man thought, according to a class-action lawsuit. Garner Food Co., alleging false advertising after he believed the brand was “a Texas product,” according to North Carolina news station WGHP-TV. A marketing adviser floated the idea for the name “Mexican Joe” hot sauce “to connote the piquant flavor reminiscent of the favorite foods of our neighbors to the south,” the brand’s site says. The Texas Pete name was a combination of the Lone Star State’s name along with “Pete,” a nickname for Garner’s son Harold, according to the website. The complaint alleges Texas Pete, a Louisiana-style hot sauce, is a product of ingredients from “sources outside of Texas” and the hot sauce producer “admits that Texas’s reputation was one they were trying to mimic and capitalize on.”

Source: Huffington Post October 10, 2022 03:55 UTC