…and also of my home town’s local condiment; my Dad introduced me to the current Lord Sandys a few years ago (Dad was his local/county councillor) and it’s nice to have the story that I heard then, retold:
Its story begins in 1835, when Marcus, Lord Sandys, returned to Worcester after a stint as Governor of Bengal, bringing with him the secret recipe for a condiment. He passed it on to two local pharmacists, John Wheeley Lea and William Perrins, who brewed up a batch of the sauce, only to discover, much to their dismay, that it tasted absolutely awful.Disgruntled, they consigned the putrid concoction to the cellar and here the tale would have ended were not the sauce unearthed the following year, more in hope than expectation. To everyone’s surprise, it had matured into something that tasted really rather good – so good, in fact, that it was bottled and sold commercially for the first time in 1837.
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