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Oh, saucy Worcester
Jun. 23rd, 2007 04:10 amOr, idle thoughts while sorting bottles in a kitchen cupboard...
Whatever happened to Yorkshire Relish?
We've got Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire sauce in the cupboard, and we've got HP (though I think its flavour's changed since Heinz took over, and not for the better; less spicy, and somehow sweet. Not an improvement.) Anyway, I started thinking (association of ideas) about the third and fourth of the Spicy Brown Sauces I liked to splash on my spuds back when Uncle Peter were nobbut a lad.
That's when, surfing the Net, I discovered that Goodall & Backhouse’s Yorkshire, both Thick and Thin - their versions of HP and Worcester - is supposedly out of production, has been so for a few years, and is of course much missed. Good grief, there isn't even a Wikipedia entry, which suggests an un-personing (or un-saucing, anyway) of Stalinist proportions.
What makes the whole thing very odd is that I’m sure I saw a bottle in a local shop no more than a month ago. Is it back in production, is it made only here in Ireland, was what I saw a well past sell-by-date antique...?
Or did I imagine the whole thing?
Faerie gold I can understand; faerie table-sauce is a bit much.
Whatever happened to Yorkshire Relish?
We've got Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire sauce in the cupboard, and we've got HP (though I think its flavour's changed since Heinz took over, and not for the better; less spicy, and somehow sweet. Not an improvement.) Anyway, I started thinking (association of ideas) about the third and fourth of the Spicy Brown Sauces I liked to splash on my spuds back when Uncle Peter were nobbut a lad.
That's when, surfing the Net, I discovered that Goodall & Backhouse’s Yorkshire, both Thick and Thin - their versions of HP and Worcester - is supposedly out of production, has been so for a few years, and is of course much missed. Good grief, there isn't even a Wikipedia entry, which suggests an un-personing (or un-saucing, anyway) of Stalinist proportions.
What makes the whole thing very odd is that I’m sure I saw a bottle in a local shop no more than a month ago. Is it back in production, is it made only here in Ireland, was what I saw a well past sell-by-date antique...?
Or did I imagine the whole thing?
Faerie gold I can understand; faerie table-sauce is a bit much.
