We just moved from Boston where it was easy to get imported groceries and my husband is Irish. We had to have a few things on hand:
HP Sauce
Biston gravy mix for the ‘spuds’
Irish bacon for Sunday breakfast
Irish sausage for Sunday breakfast
Spuds
Now we’re in Iowa and I’m trying to find suitable substitutions in a location where 1/3 of the population doesn’t have a brogue.
Does anyone know if the HP sauce my husband puts on his ‘chips’ is the same thing as Heinz 57? If I hide the bottle and throw some on his plate will he know the difference?
Yeah, don’t piss off an Irishman by messing with his HP sauce. If it’s not the same, I’d rather just get him what he likes. I hadn’t had Heinz in so long that I thought they were more similar.
And that gives me even more doubts. It just seems…weird.
I wonder if I can find McCoy’s crisps anywhere. Every time my brother-in-law comes to visit he brings an entire suitcase full. Then I gain 5 pounds on potato chips and curse his name for the two months it takes me to lose it.
My father moved us from England to America when I was a child. If Heinz 75 and HP sauce were the same thing or even similar, we wouldn’t have had to go to Canada to buy the stuff at times.
I think the website silenus gave you is the one Mum orders from at times. She likes it well enough. I’m afraid I can’t help out with the McCoy’s crisps, though.