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HP Sauce - spot the difference


It is naughty to continue to market HP Sauce with the Houses of Parliament when it is now no longer made in the UK, but in the Netherlands.

I have written to various people about this and we will see what happens.

Comments

How is it naughty? It has never been bottled in Westminster. If it had a picture of the Birmingham Selfridges on it, you may have a point, but its only connection to Parliament is that it was served there.

It isn't as if Birmingham didn't nick it off Nottingham either. You reap what you sow.
John Hemming said…
And I always thought that the House of Commons governed the United Kingdom, not just London.

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