Huy Fong, the “rooster brand” and a family owned company in LA that was sort of an immigrant success story, made a deal with Underwood Farms (also around LA and of which Huy Fong worked with personally since the start of Huy Fong) to buy peppers to help them purchase/lease new land but then reneged on the deal and sent undercover executives to Underwood to steal their methods of production. Underwood sued and won and Huy Fong was forced to purchase peppers from other suppliers, most of which seem to be having problems supplying peppers.

Sriracha is not a brand but rather a type of regional sauce, of which Huy Fong’s version was not completely true to recipe (but still tasted great IMO), and so that’s why you see other brands creating a “sriracha” sauce. Huy Fong’s version is sweeter than the OG but I’ve noticed some other brands are even sweeter (like Trader Joe’s if I recall).

Incidentally, Underwood Farms started producing their own sriracha sauce.