What a sauce

I must admit I have had nothing to do with HP Sauce since Heinz shipped its manufacture off to Holland taking a lot of Brummie jobs with it. Putting people on the dole for a few bob extra profit is bad enough but keeping the Houses of Parliament on the label and trying to pass it off as some great British institution has just a shade of cynical hypocrisy about it.

I picked up a bottle in a supermarket this morning just to see where it was made and found it was manufactured in Spain. More importantly though I noticed that the bottle proclaims HP Foods hold a royal warrant to supply sauces to the Queen. Now on the basis it is not British made, nor is it a British company and the simple fact there are a number of wholly British alternatives, such as Branston, then it does seem to be one royal appointment that the Lord Chamberlain should have another look at. Perhaps they could supply the Dutch or Spanish royal family instead.