Daddies Brown Sauce wins as best brown sauce hands down. It has a much better flavor, is more tangy and flavorful than HP sauce, and brings out the best of whatever you squeeze it on. Although the other brands are good, I recommend people try Daddies. You won't be sorry! Heinz and Daddies are apparent competitors in the UK marketplace, with strong regional popularity in The Midlands, Wales, and The West Country. Daddies Ketchup trails the dominant market leader, the better-known Heinz Tomato Ketchup. [ citation needed]. Similarly, Daddies Sauce and HP Sauce are apparent competitors in the brown sauce market. But there are many different tomato sauces out there, and variety is the spice of life so I decided to put some to the test to see if anything can beat the king of ketchups. I compared Tesco's own-brand ketchup, the budget Daddies brand and Essex's own Tiptree tomato ketchup as well as Heinz's low sugar and salt version of the classic ketchup.

Most popular with customers in United States of America (USA), Italy, France, Canada, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and Greece, but you can buy Daddies Brown Sauce for delivery worldwide. Growing up in our house there was a constant discussion about which sauce is best. HP or Daddies. I believe this Daddies Brown Sauce is one of the best on the market and much better than its HP counterpart.While it's not the cheapest option, it's a great change from the classic - boring - Heinz and a good way to support local businesses.

The brown sauce product, known as "Daddies Sauce", was launched in 1904, and the ketchup was launched in 1930. The brand is owned by the H. J. Heinz Company; it was bought as part of the acquisition of HP Foods from previous owner Groupe Danone in 2005. Production of Daddies was moved to Poland. To keep up with changing tastes and diversifying palates, HP Sauce has occasionally introduced new spins on its tried-and-true formula, starting with 1969's HP Fruity, a concoction that added oranges and mango chutney to the original tomato-and-malt-vinegar base. This variation was soon joined by HP BBQ Sauce, HP Pepper, and HP Reduced Salt & Sugar, a health-conscious take on the traditional recipe that was formulated in accordance with nutrition guidelines released by the UK government. This article is about the brand name. For the plural of daddy, see Father. For the 1924 silent film, see Daddies (film). Daddies Tomato ketchup is automatically associated with Heinz, and to my embarrassment, I only realised painfully recently that the word 'ketchup' isn't actually Heinz's own branding. Ketchup is a word in itself, meaning 'a seasoned pureed condiment usually made from tomatoes' according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Anna's ketchup rating - 9/10 - if I'm not careful I could eat that entire fancy glass bottle in one sitting.

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During food shortages caused by World War I and later World War II, HP Sauce was marketed as a way to give a little oomph to leftovers and inferior cuts of meat, making it a fixture on dinner tables throughout the middle of the 20th century. And it wasn't enough that the sauce had a place in cupboards all over the nation—it soon started popping up in all corners of British culture. In 1940, John Betjeman—later named poet laureate of the UK from 1972 until his death in 1984—paid homage to the condiment in the poem " Lake District": "For me the plunge, the lake and limbs combine/I pledge her in non-alcoholic wine/And give the H.P. Sauce another shake." HP Sauce is comparable to A1 Sauce, a condiment that’s popular in the U.S., and which is most often used on steaks or burgers. You can use HP Sauce in a similar way, yet it’s versatile enough to be integrated into a variety of other well-known British recipes, too. Keep HP British" was a rallying cry for many when the sauce's production moved from Birmingham, England, to Holland in 2006. / Christopher Furlong/Getty Images