whudda thunk it - counterfeit rooster sauce!!!

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If you enjoy spicy Asian food, you most likely are familiar with Sriracha sauce - aka "Rooster sauce" (because of the iconic rooster on the bottle).



Well lawdy, lawdy - apparently there's counterfeit Sriracha sauce out there:

Huy Fong Sriracha Sauce Being Copied

Incredible!!! What will they counterfeit next?? Not Cholula sauce, I hope.

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Never heard of it but I do buy Cholula sauce in fact I have every flavor they make. I love there sauce!

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Never heard of it but I do buy Cholula sauce in fact I have every flavor they make. I love there sauce!

Sriracha is what you use to add heat to almost any Asian dish - particularly with Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodia, Hunan.

It's great stuff!!! Sriracha is to Asian like Cholula is to Mex.

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Incredible!!! What will they counterfeit next?? Not Cholula sauce, I hope.

Nothing is sacred. I was amazed to hear that there are a lot of Australian counterfeit wines OS at the moment.

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Nothing is sacred. I was amazed to hear that there are a lot of Australian counterfeit wines OS at the moment.

Counterfeit wines!!! That business is almost as shady as timeshares!!!

When bottle of wine auction for a upwards of $20,000 there's a lot of incentive to save a bottle and refill it:

Wine Berserkers - the world's most active and fastest growing wine forum • View topic - URGENT WARNING--RUDY KURNIAWAN IS TRYING TO AUCTION MORE WINES

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There was a big counterfit on Brunello's a few years back and it involved 5 big wineries and one of the top vinters Antinori. Many vinters were not using 100% Sangevesse grapes.

Vino Wire Five Brunello producers implicated in fraudulent wine scandal reports Italian daily La Repubblica.

Wine Scams: A Counterfeiter Confesses | Food & Wine

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Is it really counterfeit, in the exact same bottles and all? Because every time I go to buy rooster sauce, I do pick up a bottle and then notice that it's not the real deal. All the bottles look very similar, and there are a LOT of them. But if you've bought real rooster sauce before, it's easy enough to find the authentic brand if you look at the bottles.

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Just heard on the radio that they busted someone in NYC for selling counterfeit I Phones with accessory's

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Is it really counterfeit, in the exact same bottles and all? Because every time I go to buy rooster sauce, I do pick up a bottle and then notice that it's not the real deal. All the bottles look very similar, and there are a LOT of them. But if you've bought real rooster sauce before, it's easy enough to find the authentic brand if you look at the bottles.

The article I linked to has information on how to tell if it's the real deal.

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Hmm...the article is from 2005. I'm wondering if this continues to be a problem.