A California court says it won’t buck the false advertising case against the maker of North Carolina-based hot sauce Texas Pete, meaning this battle is only just heating up.
Filed by plaintiff Phillip White on Sept. 12, a class action lawsuit claims that T.W. Garner Food Co. is deceptively marketing Texas Pete as a Texan product when it’s actually made in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. White’s complaint, filed on behalf of all people in the U.S. who have purchased Texas Pete, asks the court to force Texas Pete to change its name and branding and to give money to past customers.
Arizona Iced Tea must be shaking in their boots. Found this in their Wikipedia about the company (that is based in NY).
“He went with Arizona even though he had never been to the state and, in fact, hadn’t even traveled west of the Mississippi River.”