Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Americans. Love. Sriracha. If you needed any more evidence of that, just find a bag of Lays potato chips.
The hot sauce is one of three new flavors the chip-maker is trying out in grocery stores, along with chicken and waffles and cheesy garlic bread. Consumers can vote on which flavor they like the most.
The American brand is so popular, you can get homemade onesies, iPhone cases, and high-heeled shoes, all covered with the product's iconic red rooster.
That brand, Huy Fong, is headquartered in Rosemead in the San Gabriel Valley. In case Sriracha isn't on your list of favorite things yet, Randy Clemens, author of "The Sriracha Cookbook," and the forthcoming, "The Veggie Lover's Sriracha Cookbook" is here to give us some tips on how to use the spicy sauce and fill us in on a little about its history.