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1936 Sauce Bottle Holder

Happy New Year everyone! We have a request today from someone with an old bottle holder. Perhaps you can help him out? Message: This is an Old Hall sauce bottle holder c. 1936, not catalogued in any of their sales lists for the period. Can anyone shed light on that unusual octagonal shape? Is it for [...]

Reggae Reggae Sauce

Back when the Birmingham HP Sauce factory was in its final death throws, a man named Stephen Godwin stepped up and made an impassioned plea for Branston Brown Sauce as not only a viable, but tasty alternative to HP Sauce. He not only wrote me to plead his case, but went as far as to [...]

Where’s Daddie’s? A Plea

I’ve received the following question, submitted to the site by Ken Davidson: A plea! Can you write a blog entry asking if anyone has got a half-decent picture of the old Daddies Sauce daddy? Do you remember the chap? The happy 1950s type gent with the pipe and the smile? I’ve trawled the internet to no [...]

John Scott Cree – A Saucy French Love Song (1978)

I’d like to introduce a fellow who contacted me recently. John Scott Cree is a comedy singer-songwriter and story teller who has 40 years experience gigging, recording and broadcasting as a solo comedy act in Britain. In 1978, John recorded a little number entitled “A Saucy French Love Song” – a comedic dedication to HP [...]

Police hospitalised over HP sauce

Thanks Adham for submitting this story posted to the BBC website, February 21st, 2009. Police officers rushed to hospital after a suspicious substance was thrown through a car window were released when it was identified as HP sauce. The Metropolitan Police said officers responded to reports of an “unusual smell” coming from a car with a smashed [...]

HP Sauce Rider Toy

I recently received the following email from Amy in the UK. It reads as follows: In 1972 my husband had a ride on hp sauce bottle toy, no now knows where this toy went to, but this Christmas my husbands father and step mother gave him one as a present which they had brought from [...]

November Expiry

It’s now late November and with that marks the end to another barbecue season here in Winnipeg. With snow on the ground and the temperature steadily dropping, dashing out onto the patio in ones slippers with a plate of juicy steaks becomes less and less likely with each passing day. Although I really like my [...]

Visitor Submissions: French Label? Anyone for Daddies?

This week we address a couple of visitor submitted questions. 1. David Holdford from the United States writes: I wonder if you can help me please? I am trying to find the French text from the label of a HP Sauce bottle of the type that was on sale in the 1960s. I recollect that it [...]

As Time Goes By – HP Antics

I spotted this little clip while watching the British TV Series “As Time Goes By” starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Here, Jean (Judi) is up to her usual scheming and traps Lionel (Geoffrey) with a bottle of HP. It’s only by pure luck that I happened to catch it as I only watch this [...]

Billy Elliot

A little while ago while out paroosing for a film at the local video rental shop, I was encouraged to rent the title “Billy Elliot“. While I knew next to nothing about this film, I agreed that it would be at the very least an alternative to a lot of the other drivel lining the [...]