Save our Sauce!

There’s one thing we British are very good at - our ability to politely moan about something. We’ll all have grumble about something being “terrible” or “outrageous” which usually involves “Johnny Foreigner” and the evils of the “European Union” (to which I’m still yet to work out where the “union” part is) before it’s all quickly forgotten and we revert to our other world class pastime of queuing.

So today it’s my turn to temporarily put my dating disasters to one side and have a rant about the state of our country and to moan about yet another British institution that has been decimated by that “Johnny Foreigner” chap. Yeap, not content with buying our companies then closing factories left right and centre, those nasty foreigners have finally gone one step too far as the HP Foods factory in Birmingham is to close and move production of its famous HP sauce to Holland.

Now, I guess most people outside of the UK won’t have a clue what this HP sauce is, but let’s just say that the great British breakfast, a bacon sandwich or even a cheese sandwich wouldn’t be the same without a delicious dollop of HP brown sauce. It becomes even more ironic when you consider that just a few weeks ago HP Sauce launched a campaign to "Save the Proper British Cafe" – even having the gall to sell wristbands from a website and ploughing £5,000 into a "fighting fund".

So, people of Great Britain (and the rest of the blogging world) it’s time to head for the front and make a stand and boycott HP products until they decide to retain production in Britain. But please remember to keep this boycott going rather than giving up after two days then two years down the road starting to grumble that HP sauce “doesn’t taste like it use to”.