HP Sauce

It's delicious of course.

Bit of a lazy one this.
In late from work and training, eating my dinner and wondering about my daily photo whilst staring at the sauce bottle.
Thought i'd try and get a decent long exposure shot of it.
I've always liked the 'Houses of Parliament' shot on the front of HP brown sauce.
I wonder how many people know why it is called HP Sauce?
Fairly obvious really....

The original recipe was invented and developed in 1899 by Frederick Gibson Garton, a grocer from Nottingham. 
Garton sold the recipe for the sum of £150 to settle a debt with Edwin Samson Moore, the founder of the Midlands Vinegar Company, who launched what we know and love today as HP Sauce.

HP stands for 'Houses of Parliament' as it was rumoured the sauce was used in the restaurant there, back at the turn of the 20th century.

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