HP Sauce Squeezy - 450g

Brown sauce is the other half of the great British sauce argument. Red on the chips, brown on the bacon, and families have fallen out over less. HP is the name people mean when they say brown sauce, the same way everyone hoovers and nobody vacuums.

Move abroad and the full English is the first thing you try to rebuild on a Saturday morning. Sausages, beans, a fried egg, a slice of toast, and then a gap on the plate exactly where the HP should be. That gap is why people go looking for it.

The squeezy bottle lives upside down, so the sauce is always waiting at the nozzle. A 450g bottle sees a household through a good run of breakfasts, and it keeps happily in the cupboard until it is opened (after that, do what the label says). It goes on bacon sandwiches, sausage rolls, pies and cheese on toast, and into a stew when nobody is watching.

It belongs next to the rest of a proper breakfast shop: back bacon, British sausages, a tin of beans. Brown sauce people are loyal, so a spare bottle at the back of the cupboard is not greed. It is planning.