• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I’ll piggyback on your comment with Worcestershire sauce.

    Lea & Perrins make the original Worcestershire sauce, they also have never disclosed the full recipe, just the ingredients.

    There are store brands and even Heinz makes a sauce. None of them are as good as the original.

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      11 months ago

      That’s a good point. A number of sauces/mixed condiments in general are kind of like sodas. There are definitely competitors, but they all have slightly different variants, even within the same field. And people seem to have definite preferences on the specific variant.

      Like, the Brits have that brown sauce stuff.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce

      HP Sauce is the earliest brown sauce, and is the most popular brown sauce in the United Kingdom, accounting for around 75% of sales. Daddies, OK Sauce and Wilkin & Sons are other popular brands. Another is Hammonds of Yorkshire,[8] popular in Northern England.[9]

      Most supermarket chains in the UK[10] and Ireland also stock their own brand of brown sauce.

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        11 months ago

        Heinz is particularly bad, they use soy sauce and corn syrup, and I don’t think ferment it at all.

        Whereas Lea & Perrins use zero soy, and ferment the sauce.

        The absolute worst part about it all is that Lea & Perrins was bought out by Heinz in 2005, and yet the Heinz branded sauce is still shit flavored water.

        The original is still made the same way, and is still good.

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          11 months ago

          The absolute worst part about it all is that Lea & Perrins was bought out by Heinz in 2005, and yet the Heinz branded sauce is still shit flavored water.

          No, this is the best part because L&Ps product didn’t go to shit after getting bought out.