The makers of Texas Pete hot sauce are being sued by a man who was left disappointed after purchasing the product only to discover that it is not actually made in Texas.
Los Angeles resident Phillip White filed a lawsuit in September in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against the producers of the hot sauce, North Carolina-based T.W. Garner Food Co.
The lawsuit alleges that the company failed to “act in accordance with a fundamental precept of truth in advertising and fair play in the marketplace” by implying that the product was made in Texas when it is actually manufactured in Winston-Salem, North Carolina….