Desperately Seeking HP Sauce

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A couple years back I spent some time in London, and my mind was completely blown by this little brown bottle next to the ketchup in pretty much every restaurant I ate in. It took me a little less than 5 minutes to be converted to The Way of HP Sauce. Why is it that Christians think wine is a better representation of the blood of Christ than HP sauce? (aside from the Bible)

Back in the Washington, DC area I've spent a lotta energy trying to find brown sauce, but it seems like supermarkets just don't carry the stuff, not even in the 'Ethnic Foods' section. Where can I find some HP Sauce? Any ideas?

― matlewis, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I've considered trying to make my own, but I feel like that's probably a bad idea.

― matlewis, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

there might be some specialty uk shops there, i'd imagine there'd have to be.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Look for 'London Pub Sauce' in your local supermarket. It'll be near the ketchup and A1 steak sauce. It's just HP sauce rebranded for the US market.

(I'm assuming you'll be able to get it in DC, I've had no trouble finding it in Pittsburgh.)

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

doesn't bbc america have a shop

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britishfood.com/home.html

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

If you're looking locally, Classic Cigars & British Goodies in Clarendon (it's steps from the Metro) would be one of the most likely places to have it.

― chules (chules), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I'll send you a bottle, if you like.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Classic Cigars & British Goodies is a great store. If you're close to any Wegmans I'm pretty sure they carry it, too.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I buy HP sauce at world cost plus market, it's a chain, maybe there's one nearby

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I think I've been to that shop: Axis Sally and I bought Silk Cuts there.

My local supermarket has HP sauce, but it has a small little section of British and Irish foods.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

the key food on 5th avenue in park slope has hp sauce. they also have marmite and lemon curd and mcvitie's digestives!

― metal detective (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i also order bassett's pear drops from some internet site, i think - lara byrne got me hooked on 'em.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

wait, i dont think, i know - i just can't remember the name of the site

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Rodman's (5100 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington, DC) has several shelves of British food.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of a world without HP. Worcestershire Table Sauce has been a little harder to find though.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

HP sauce is really good on taco bell thingers. Um, gorditas? Yeah.

― Jacqui Pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Do HP still make the other flavours? At one point I recall there was a tomato relish type sauce, a curry sauce(I think?) and a BBQ one, they dont exist nommore tho. HP is great - its like a thick sauce version of Worcestershire (which is an absolute staple in my house - great in soups, great on eggs).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

I think the key ingredient all round is the tamarind.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

There was HP Fruity sauce, a tad sweeter than the original they still do it. What happened to "Daddy's Sauce"? is that siill about.

You can get HP here in Thailand now, which is strange

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

There was HP Fruity sauce, a tad sweeter than the original they still do it. What happened to "Daddy's Sauce"? is that siill about.

You can get HP here in Thailand now.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Daddy's sauce is still around, cheaper and more vinegary but still very good. HP still do other sauces here, Fruity, chilli, BBQ none is as good though. The japanese are into brown sauce in a big way and it doesn't surprise me it's popular in Thailand.

a good alternative to HP is Japanese Bulldog sauce.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Pickapeppa sauce is like a thinner and spicier version of HP sauce, I like it even better.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

When you're a republic you don't get to enjoy the fruits of the British Empire...

I know what I'm putting on my steak sanger tonight.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

I love the idea that HP sauce might be found in the Ethnic Food section.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

http://piranhazone.pi.funpic.de/zelda/mm_english_original/eq008.jpg

― casing the glebe, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

I've recently been converted to the way of HP with my fry-up. I'm finding, however, that I'm needing more and more of the stuff to get the same hit. Is this the rocky road to dependancy?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

You lot will be eating Brain's Faggots next.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Was Daddy's sauce ever actually advertised by the late Shirley Crabtree, or is that a false memory I've got?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

No, I think you're right there

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

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― Michael & Laura, Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britishfood.com/home.html

THey have "daddies sauce." I hope that's not what I think it is. ;)

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Sunday, 31 July 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Hahahaha

As for HP sauce, I once had a bottle of it that was 15 years old. It was almost finished, but a friend offered me a new, full bottle, for what little was left. He believed it improved with age.

― moley, Sunday, 31 July 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

My flatmate made his own wocestershire sauce once. Interesting.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

they used to make this chutney like fruity hp i really liked

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

is HP really not available in a america? im 99.999% sure i saw a family with a bottle of HP friday night at a seafood restuarant here in little rock.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

oh, but we do have this in town:

http://www.everythingaustralian.com/hpsauce255g.html

aww! remember ETA sauce? i used to call this 'brick sauce' when i was a kid:

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― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

seventeen years pass...

Do any other parliaments, palaces, government buildings etc have their own condiments?

Feel sorry for people raised without HP

― ionjusit (P. Flick), Saturday, 7 January 2023 23:23 (three years ago)

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