Brown Sauce

[Kate]

Bleh. Fries are eaten with ketchup - or if you don't care about your health, cheese sauce and chili is good too. Or just the cheese. Chips are eaten with ketchup or salt and vinegar.

[SepticTone]

Correct.

[davec]

Getting back on the brown sauce track--

Go to Google Videos and search on 'HP Sauce'. You will get:

* Classic old TV ads
* A rock band named HP Sauce
* Lots of coverage of the closing of the factory in Birmingham--it's now made in Eastern
Europe, so it's an imported product in the UK now
* People sucking down a whole bottle at once
* People snorting it!!
* An Irishman swimming in HP and eggs

And my personal favorite! This girl got caught cheating during a treasure hunt, and as punishment was made to eat prunes with HP. Judging from the look on her face, I'll steer clear of this culinary temptation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7PA_nF4NM

This stuff is very iconic in UK thinking. Not to know it is not to know the UK.

[SepticTone]

The people in your Youtube link are Northern Irish, judging from their physique, appearance & strangulated inflected crazy accents.

I'd imagine that for her,therefore, prunes with HP sauce, pepper & salt are part of her staple diet. If not a luxury food.

You're right about the iconic nature of HP in British culture.

I hate to pick you up on your reference to its now being made in Eastern Europe, dave, as it's actually now made in Holland, which is Western Europe, about 200 miles East of the Fens, wherever that is.

I approve of this move, frankly, as I never liked Midlanders anyway, I much prefer the Dutch. They have cleaner hands & you can actually understand what they say in English, for one thing.

[taly]

I abandoned several articles of clothing on return from my first trip to the UK--to make room for five liters of HPSauce.

My wife is french and wouldn't dream of using it herself but she ran across a bottle and bought it for me.

[SepticTone]

I abandoned several articles of clothing on return from my first trip to the UK--to make room for five liters of HPSauce.

My wife is french and wouldn't dream of using it herself but she ran across a bottle and bought it for me.

Now that is very funny, taly 5 litres of HP sauce! Do you bang the flagon of it down on the table next to the salt & pepper at dinner, prior to eating a delicious delicate confit d'oie aux truffes avec pommes allumettes et petits pois prepared by your wife?

That concept would make a great commercial. Your wife is correct in not using it. I have an English wife, so very small amounts of it are vital when eating anything prepared by her.

[taly]

I don't use it on the goose but can't endure the rabbit without some HP.