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H.P Sauce Birmingham

johndavies said:
Now my stock of HP Brummie sauce is exhausted I refuse to buy the insipid glue manufactured in Holland. I have now discovered Levi Roots Reggae Reggae sauce, its the most flavoursome I have ever tasted. Apparently, its the second biggest sauce seller in the UK and its manufactered in the country too.
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Yeah delicious John it goes great with Cleone Foods patties . West indian food made in Hockley. Max
 
Hmmm...their website is a bit of a dog's breakfast, but I'll give it a try!

Love sauce, hate Heinz.

Big Gee
 
The old HP site in Aston Cross is currently being redeveloped after months of delay. The bulldozers are currently laying the tracks and getting the foundations ready for a large development for East End Foods . There was an expected completion date of August 2011 but that might well have slipped, but it's got to be better than having rubble strewn waste ground.

Ian
 
We ate out for lunch today, I asked for some brown sauce (gourmet food, obviously) and got a small tub of HP. Aaaargh...I swore off HP sauce when they closed the factory and moved everything abroad. So I had to go without #sob#.
 
As if it wasn't bad enough taking the factory away, have you seen the latest news?
Apparently the powers that be have decreed that HP sauce is not good for the health and have had the original recipe chnaged to reduce the salt content. This is not the new reduced salt/reduced sugar version, but the good old fashioned one with half of the salt remived - apparently it tastes nothing like the orinal and what hasn't been mentioned is that it has less fibre and a higher calorie value than before!!!
Why can't they leave things alone?:explode:
Sue
 
I only rarely use it, but understand from those that do, that it changed its taste long ago, when it went to France . The new change is claimed to be for health reasons, but probably is cheaper as well (for the manufacturer that is, not the consumer). Mars Bars have changed their recipe at least twice in the last 25 years or so, both times claiming to be for health reasons, but in both cases it resulted in a cheaper (for them) product, and Mars bars aren't worth eating now.
The other thing to be attacked for salt levels is bread. The recent survey said specialist breads (that taste of something) have the highest salt levels. The next crusade by the "health" brigade will be to promote the eating of baked wallpaper paste ("healthy"bland gloop) or refined baked wallpaper paste (macdonalds baps) over decent bread
Mike
 
I haven't had a bottle of "HP Sauce" since it left Birmingham and I am not surprised that they have adjusted the taste, what we want is for a local maker to make a sauce with similar taste to the old one and we can call it "Brummegum sauce"
 
Sadly its the same with most things from a taste point of view .
Lee & Perrins Worcester Sauce , Colemans Mustard , Heinz Salad Cream , Heinz Tomato Sauce , Sarsons Vinegar , Cadburys Dairy Milk Chocolate , Cheese & Onion Crisps , Bacon , Roast Beef - the list is endless - taste anything like they used to or am I just becoming more like Victor Meldrew in my old age ?
 
More desecration, now we really have reached the bottom of the barrel in this country, mess with our pensions, mess with our schooling, mess with our military, "BUT TO DILUTE OUR HP SAUCE" , is the utter limit. Bacon butty's and English breakfast will never be the same again, let alone the cheese sandwich.RIP HP 110yrs sold down the drain.
paul
 
Have to say when I came home to Brum while I was training, always loved it when you could smell the HP, felt like I was home - my friend says the same about Marmite in Burton!
Sue
 
sue ive heard folk say they knew they were home when they could smell the HP and ansells brewery...what a combination lol...

lyn
 
Heres a nice pic
 
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sistersue61 said:
As if it wasn't bad enough taking the factory away, have you seen the latest news?
Apparently the powers that be have decreed that HP sauce is not good for the health and have had the original recipe chnaged to reduce the salt content. This is not the new reduced salt/reduced sugar version, but the good old fashioned one with half of the salt remived - apparently it tastes nothing like the orinal and what hasn't been mentioned is that it has less fibre and a higher calorie value than before!!!
Why can't they leave things alone?:explode:
Sue
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Hi, Sue,

I believe I have correctly analysed the thinking behind all these 'health' innovations being thrown at us these days by politicians and supposed scientists. It simply amounts to the fact that we are being bamboozled into the current Big Business practice of 'Cost Cutting'...

You know the drill, when chocolate makers - for instance - chop off a rank of squares from one of their blocks but leave the price as it was before, or, maybe, even put the price up.

This action, (it is said) 'improves the consumer's health prospects'. But at the same time, it sure makes the business's financial balances look a bit healthier...!

And so it is with HP and the salt content. But never mind. I've consumed gallons of HP and the old Daddies sauce's unhealthy contents over the years, yet I have managed to reach the ripe old age of 83...

Cheers,

Jim ;)
 
Nice pic Elizabeth - it was the view from my office window for a couple of years whilst at Gerard mann - The Mercedes Truck & Van place on the site of the old Ansells.
I saw them demolish it - gone but not forgotten!
 
I went to KEGS in Frederick road in the early 60's and we reckoned that you could always tell what the weather was going to do if you could smell the brewery and the HP factory. Happy days, I live in Essex now for my sins but drove back last year to look at the school. It seemed more like an oasis surrounded by gates and fences now rather than just a school. We used to go to the corner shop at lunchtime and then into the park for a secret game of football or a charge around; football was banned in school, heathens.
 
HP Sauce - Don't take it lying down!
HP recently set up a facebook page so we could all tell how wonderful their product is.
But everyone's telling them they should still be making it in Brum and they shouldn't have changed the recipe.
Let's all tell 'em what we think - https://www.facebook.com/HPSauceUK .
Bill
 
As a life long lover of HP Sauce (especially Fruity) we decided that we would boycot all Heinz products when they moved manufacture to the Netherlands. The big plus was that we found Branston Baked Beans which had recently been introduced - it was a far superior product. Within 12 months Heinz were forced to change their recepe in the UK to compete (which they denied) but this was confirmed when a group of studends complained that the Heinz beans in Germany were no where near as good as the ones they had in London. People power does work! Alas, living in the Antipodes, we do not get Branston Beans
John
 
I also have not bought HP since the Birmingham factory closed. When production moved to Netherlands I suggested that instead of HP for Houses of Parliament it should be called SG Sauce for States General, the Dutch parliament. Last year out of nostagia I picked up a bottle in a shop just to read the label and was surprised to find that production had moved again, this time to Spain. Do they even know what they are making in Spain. It is like when Heinz said they were going to stop making Salad Cream because they did not know why we in England were buying it.
 
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David
Remember what happened then . they said that because of demand they would be selling at at an increased price to enable them to spend more on marketing ie support more marketing parasites into their old age..
 
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Sorry to disagree Astoness, but the real true mixture that still brings a lump in my throat is Coalman's Sweat, horsemuck, Ansell's Brewery and the HP Sauce Factory at Aston Cross. Memories, memories, nobody understands like we do. Regards, David.
 
Sorry to keep keeping them coming, but there's an interesting page about Frederick Gibson Garton, the creator of HP Sauce - https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lesleydonald/page128.htm. If he'd have been a better businessman the sauce would never have come to Aston in the first place!

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Astoness said:
sue ive heard folk say they knew they were home when they could smell the HP and ansells brewery...what a combination lol...

lyn
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About 1974 I had been with some mates in Filey for a few days. We got back to Birmingham in the early hours and stopped the car somewhere near the Manor Tavern. I wish that I could have bottled the air that morning. Nothing like it!
 
We had our small bottle of HP in the trailer and I just went out to it (looking forlorn in the rain on the driveway). Does not say where made just made by Heinz...'head office' Toronto. Well I suppose that we, at least, have a head office....er...and no smell.
 
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Hello Sister Sue, I tried to find your views again on the songs we used to sing but am not good at getting round the site. However I was told that my birth father built the HP Sauce Factory, the Cornflake factory and definitely Harris Brushworks near Bromsgrove and all the new Schools and Colleges in Birmingham like Northfield. New as in the 60's I would imagine. Went to have a look at the Brushworks, he was a site agent for various local firms. One was called Sherratt I think in Stourbridge he also worked in Coventry Birmingham Shrewsbury Droitwich Worcester and Malvern. Where was the HP Sauce factory? I saw a pub called the Sauce Factory in Worcester nothing to do with that I suppose? Love this site. Nico
 
sistersue, have tried the new Guiness sauce, did not like it at first but by the time I had finished the bottle I had grown to like it, it certainly tastes different to the original and will not be to everyones taste, but I now like it. Eric
 
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