[MadIvan]

HP is sort of like your A1 steak sauce - here's a bottle:

Really, not worth getting in this much trouble for. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[petuniasevan]

Great discerning palate.

Not-so-great discerning brain.

[ProbableCause]

I remember reading this science fiction novel titled The Diamond Age wherein the author had a long, fanciful list of ingredients you might find in a typical English steak sauce. I think he was probably thinkig about HP sauce. Anyhow, the list included things like "autumn leaves" and "gunpowder". I found it pretty amusing at the time.

[Happygal]

This is funny.
I have a friend who is the executive head chef in a nice hotel here, and he is really confident and proud of his work.

When we dine in his restaurant, we often send a message via the waiting staff to tell Tony to 'open another jar of Ragu, we're having the pasta' *L*
Tony goes mad. But we have a giggle.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
This has come about after much badgering by you, my friends and extended family...

[jimtorr]

Hmmm, this sounds like something Gareth Blackstock, the main character in the BBC series "Chef", would do.

Gareth, played by Lenny Henry was one of the best chef's in England. He suffered from extreme arrogance and would do anything to prove a point. Do you suppose that the chef in this story watched the series "Chef" too much?

Chef was one of the most devastatingly funny shows I've ever seen. It was much too funny to go on for more than three series.

[RightOnline]

Hey, Shrew.............potential customer? :)

[dennisw]

FWIW Keith Richards is addicted to this HP stuff and orders it by the case since you can't find it much in America.

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[fone]

>>>"My wife ordered fish cakes in a sweet, home-made chilli sauce but what she got was fish cakes in brown sauce<<<

There is something to be said for British cuisine...Fish cakes with chili or brown (steak) sauce? Yuk.

[strela]

I know HP Sauce well - got hooked on the stuff when I lived in London. I slather the stuff on egg and chips.

There are several web sites where you can order the stuff. (One of them also had ginger beer, which is also tough to find in the States).

[boris]

Oh. I thought it was a new Hewlett-Packard product.

[AnAmericanMother]

The stuff is available around here quite readily (suburban Atlanta). The local Kroger and the local Publix both carry it (those are major national grocery chains and between them hold most of the market share here), and in the ordinary condiment section, not on the "weird foreign food" aisle. (You should see some of the stuff on THAT aisle . . . not commonly considered food in some places.)

It's sweeter, thicker, and also more tomato-ey than A-1. But as far as I'm concerned neither one of them ought to be put on a good steak. Or for that matter fish cakes . . . ugh. A nice pepper sauce or a Bearnaise would be better.

Ivan, I'm so sorry, I LOVE England, visit every chance I get, but the only decent food I've ever had in your blessed isle was in rural Scotland (French influence I suppose) and in ethnic restaurants in London . . . Indian and Chinese. We save our money, eat fish & chips, and spend the money we save on your beautiful woolens and more film for the camera . . .

[Overtaxed]

I take it the burgler didn't find HP during his....burgle.