HP Sauce

[pdcorlis]

HP sauce, digestives, PG Tips and other assorted goodies are now in our local Fred Meyer store. Now if only they had Irn Bru...

[Colonel MacNeal]

I enjoy receiving a good Hob Nob from time to time.

They are some tasty biscuits!

[Jock Scot]

Ten and a half pounds!! Good gracious me, I would not(have not)get through the half a pound of HP in a lifetime!

[McClef]

I don't think they tried a new formula over here but they did change the label which used to contain French as well as English and was a great way of learning some French words!

La Sauce HP est un mélange...d'épices est des fruits orienteaux..
Elle est absoulement pure et ne contient pas...

See I can still remember some of it after all these years!

[Kilt_Em_All]

OK. I'll bite and ask the stupid question: What in the world is HP sauce? And am I the only one that's never heard of it?

-Elliott

[sathor]

OK. I'll bite and ask the stupid question: What in the world is HP sauce? And am I the only one that's never heard of it?

-Elliott

I hadn't heard of it either, seems to be a 'British' thing, I wonder how many of our condiments in the States they even have over there...

[thanmuwa]

I hadn't heard of it either, seems to be a 'British' thing, I wonder how many of our condiments in the States they even have over there...

Name a few and I am sure someone can tell you. A cultural exchange of condiments ? To start off, have you got Worcestershire (pronounced Wooster) sauce?

By the way, HP is a yummy, spicy sauce, the closest thing I can think of in Burger King or MacDonalds (using those, rightly or wrongly, as cultural proxies for the US) is probably barbecue sauce, but HP is sort of fruitier and less smoky (describing sauce is difficult ).

[Chas]

OK. I'll bite and ask the stupid question: What in the world is HP sauce? And am I the only one that's never heard of it?
-Elliott

I hadn't heard of it either, seems to be a 'British' thing, I wonder how many of our condiments in the States they even have over there...

In the UK there are red sauces and there are brown sauces. The red sauces are, of course, tomato based.

The brown sauces are to a varying degree molasses based. HP sauce has, as well, dates and tamarind extract. It's been going since 1899 and calls itself 'The Original'. The label shows a picture of the Houses of Parliament, hence HP. In cafés, if one orders a sausage or a bacon sandwich, you are usually offered the HP sauce. There are those that like HP sauce so much that they have HP sauce sandwiches without anything else inside.

Regards

Chas

[CDNSushi]

The 10.5 lb bottle is for bathing in. I hear that the Royal Family does it quite frequently -- apparently it's the secret to their longevity!

[Lady M]

You can buy Irn Bru and HP Sauce at the Publix grocery chain (if there's one near you.) They have a variety of other similar things as well.