days gone by

[Aberdeenplotter]

Lottie Asked in the What makes you happy thread what theHP in Hp sauce stands for. There's a pic of Big Ben and the houses of parliamemnt on the label but looking at the label, I seem to recall there was a long story in french when I was a lad. Anyone recall that? Of course that was in the days when marmalade sellers could put pics of now not politically correct nature on the label and offer badges if these pics were collected. Anyone else recall any old stuff?

[Nicos]

this is interesting!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

[lottie dolly]

we have some on our shelf,i was originaly having a bit of fun,it was not just mam..lade,it was a brand name logo,my how things have changed,

[Thelma Sanders]

HP aka Houses of Parliament sauce used to be labelled in French as well as English.
Is that what you can remember?

[Potstubsdustbins]

HP sauce, Originally made by a butcher in New Basford, Nottingham, sold the recipe to pay off debts and less than £200 in cash. Mind you that sort of money in those days was a considerable amount.

I was born less than a quarter of a mile from the original shop which was still operating when I were but a lad.

And I love my original HP.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I do Too Potty to be honest I don't know if I'll buy it again. It is made in Holland and to me I thought you couldnt get anything more British. All it needs now is someone to tell me Lee and Perrins is made abroad as well

[bearded bloke]

Ahh, but what about ....... Daddies Sauce ........ Which confused me as a lad why did Mummy have it as well surely she was breaking an implied usage rule & should have been beaten

[Potstubsdustbins]

Mother beaten, that would be the day in our house, Dad was a 6'2" miner and even he wouldn't tackle Mum. Aged 82 she suffered am attempted distraction burglary, when the chap tried to grab her handbag she knocked him to the ground with her walking stick and then set about him. Even the cops felt sorry for him when they arrived to take him away. As the officer said to me "When we arrived he was lying on the floor with your mother standing over him, and every time he tried to move she whacked him." Born in 1902 losing her father to WW1 she had a hard childhood and it showed.

[Greenleaves]

My old pops had HP sauce on everything and also loved his Camp coffee. I have always been a Branston Pickle fan, stillmade in the UK but Japanese owned.

[Snadger]

My old pops had HP sauce on everything and also loved his Camp coffee. I have always been a Branston Pickle fan, stillmade in the UK but Japanese owned.

I oft wondered what that secret oriental magic ingredient rutabaga was, until I found out it was the common, but rarely heralded.....................garden swede!

[lottie dolly]

on looking in the mirror these days,tis scary what has happened from years before hehehe,never mind about sauce ext hehehe