I like to cook. When not reading books on History, I read cookbooks. As a boy my Mum made the best Cornish Pasties in the Universe, which I always ate with HP Sauce. There was a recipe for a dish I was interested in making – Jamaican Curried Goat, as it happens, and I needed a tablespoon of HP Sauce. I didn’t have any so I went to shop after shop, four in all, but with no luck.

The generation of people who like HP Sauce are a dying breed. The shops stocked everything but HP Sauce. There was Sweet Chilli, Soy, BBQ, and on and on the list goes, but no HP Sauce. The younger generations just do not eat it, so therefore the shops do not stock it. Eventually I got some, but it took quite a bit of time, effort and petrol.