What does the HP In HP Sauce stand for? - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food This little-known fact about HP sauce will blow your mind By You Magazine - April 25, 2019 HP Sauce has been a solid part of British foodie culture for decades. The brand is actually celebrating its a big birthday this year, marking 160 years since its creation. But surprisingly, few of us (including many in the You office) are aware of what HP actually stands for. The 160 year old condiment is actually called ‘Houses Of Parliament’ sauce, which has been shortened to HP on bottles and in marketing campaigns. Despite the image on the label, this may come as a surprise to many, as it’s rarely talked about or called by its original long form name. Getty Images But you may be wondering how this came to be, and why the sauce is named after the Houses of Parliament in the first place. The brand’s website explains that it found its name after the brown sauce was apparently once used in the restaurant at the Houses Of Parliament at the turn of the 20th century. Impressively, 28 million bottles of the stuff are consumed each year, and if stacked on top of each other, they would reach the same height as 6189 Houses of Parliament! In short, it’s seriously popular with us Brits. If the real name of HP Sauce surprises you, you may also be interested to know about some other intriguing foodie label facts: Getty Images It was recently revealed that the Toblerone label actually features the shape of a bear within its mountainous logo. Look closely, and you’ll see it. Last Christmas the fact that the Celebrations tin of chocolate’s logo was made out of each individual chocolate wrapper went viral. Getty Images Unknown to many, the Fed Ex label, designed way back in 1974, features the shape of an arrow between the E and the X. Once you see it, you won’t be able to un-see it…! Getty Images The Amazon logo has an arrow in it, pointing from the A to the Z in the word Amazon, apparently to represent Amazon’s A-Z approach to selling pretty much everything you could think of. Who knew?! RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food 6 sunshine-yellow baking recipes with golden grains May 20, 2018 Donna Hay’ s sneaky bolognese June 10, 2018 Louise Thompson’ s lower-fat sticky toffee pudding June 29, 2018 Calling all cocktail lovers – this £12 Co-op vodka is one July 23, 2018 5 delicious new baking trends to try this season August 31, 2018 People are campaigning for the return of this popular Celebrations chocolate September 27, 2018 This is the best turkey to buy for Christmas 2018 October 11, 2018 Chrissy Teigen’ s French toast with whipped honey and ricotta topping November 17, 2018 Snowy angel cake December 23, 2018 Souped up 6 delicious healthy soup recipes with calorie counts January 27, 2019 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved