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A friend shared this with me and now I’m sharing with you.  Since so many of us know of and use Sriracha, I thought you might find it interesting.

This article was in the New York times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2

Interesting things revealed included:  From Food Party…

-the sauce was developed in the 80s in Los Angeles, by David Tran, Vietnamese immigrant, in aspirations to be as awesome as Heinz 57

-the rooster on the bottle comes from his astrological zodiac symbol

-Huy Fong is the name of the freighter on which Tran left Vietnam

-an early chili sauce that Tran developed in the 70s, intended as a dip for beef plucked from bowls of pho, was more popular as a sauce for roasted dog.

-more than 10 million bottles of Sriracha roll off the factory line in Rosemead CA every year.

-People in the actual town of Sriracha in Thailand supposedly have no idea what Sriracha even is.

We had a rough drop off at school today.  Usually Pish drops off Katie at school and she has not cried in the mornings for a while now but…when mommy drops off, it was not pretty.  I sat with her for a couple minutes while she ate breakfast and I warned her that I would be leaving soon.  Her lower lip started to quiver.  When I tried to leave, she screamed “MAMMMMMMMA!” and tried to run after me.  I hate seeing her cry but I had to just leave and not look back.    It was so hard.

I still can’t figure out why she is whinier with me than with Pish but she just is.