HP Sauce
30 June 2002, 11:24 AM
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Hey guys,
I know it's a bit of a stupid question but what does the HP in HP Sauce stand for?? I reckon it's Houses of Parliment but brother inlaw says it's not!
Thanks
I know it's a bit of a stupid question but what does the HP in HP Sauce stand for?? I reckon it's Houses of Parliment but brother inlaw says it's not!
Thanks
30 June 2002, 11:27 AM
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A Nottingham shopkeeper invented the recipe for HP Sauce, but missed the chance of making his fortune, when he traded the recipe with a Midlands' vinegar company to settle a debt!
Garton's HP Sauce was developed by FG Garton, who ran a small grocery shop in Nottingham.
He called the sauce HP because he claimed to have heard that it was available in a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament.
A businessman called in on Mr Garton with regard to some unpaid bills and noticed his sauce-making activities. The recipe and brand were sold for £150 and the cancellation of the debt.
HP is known as `Wilson's Gravy' after Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister of the 1960s and 1970s, who was rumoured to cover his food with HP Sauce.
Garton's HP Sauce was developed by FG Garton, who ran a small grocery shop in Nottingham.
He called the sauce HP because he claimed to have heard that it was available in a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament.
A businessman called in on Mr Garton with regard to some unpaid bills and noticed his sauce-making activities. The recipe and brand were sold for £150 and the cancellation of the debt.
HP is known as `Wilson's Gravy' after Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister of the 1960s and 1970s, who was rumoured to cover his food with HP Sauce.
30 June 2002, 03:55 PM
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In an edition of the Beano comic some months ago, when the world (and the characters in the comic; Bash Street Kids etc) was going Harry Potter Movie crazy, one of the Beano kids was holding up a bottle of HP and saying "Wow, and they've even named a sauce after him!" 
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