"I loved sort of classic pieces that I would hear. I would love ‘Cheek to Cheek,' Fred Astaire, all these things. I just thought, these are classics....
Heaven, I'm in heaven.... So, I had a lot of information in my head of those tunes.... People have said to me, do you believe in magic? And I say, I have to 'cause of that song.... I think I'd loaded my computer so strongly with 'Cheek to Cheek,' 'Stardust,' 'When I Fall in Love,' with these beautiful songs, I'd heard all my childhood. I mean, I can still remember standing in the kitchen of Forthlin Road and hearing 'When I Fall in Love' by Nat King Cole as I was reaching for an HP bottle and thinking, my God, this is good.... So, you know, that's all I can think is that all of that data — to use modern terminology — had gone into my very sophisticated computer. The human brain, right? Had jumbled up, done all this sort of stuff. And somehow as the dream, it just, it tumbled out this song."
Said Paul McCartney, in
the "Yesterday" episode of the "Life in Lyrics" podcast.
What sauce is splattered on your magical dreams?
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McIlhenny Tabasco Sauce.
I still love A1 and Heinz 57. The 57 sauce goes well with chicken, A1 is better for steak and pork. Too bad with Bidinflation its so expensive. but you only live once. BTW, the Beatles were lucky to grow up with so many musical influences, not just all the pop songs of the 30s/40s but Elvis and Chuck Berry, and 50s R/R stuff.
Texas barbecue. Always the same, always good.
Put it on your black eyed peas.
Soy souce is great too, especially if its matched with Ginger. Assuming you can handle the sodium.
My Funny valentine best version = Chet Baker.
For an instrumental version, I'd go with the duet by Bill Evans and Jim Hall from their amazing album Undercurrent
What became of that History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs project?
Bacon sandwich with butter and HP sauce is one of the greatest things ever.
Art always comes from something outside the artist. Nothing is entirely new. That's why AI art is so frightening. It systematizes inspiration and uses algorithms to transform inspiration into a specific work of seeming creativity.
Worcestershire
YouTube: Jeeves and Wooster - Oh by jingo
"HP demands" in an Elton John song made me scratch my head. HP sauce? Houses of Parliament? Horsepower? High pressure? High powered? It actually means "hire purchase" or what we might call "rent to own" arrangements.
White sauce, brown sauce, green sauce, red sauce. Maybe RFK Jr. or whoever runs the FTC can get more descriptive names for these things. More descriptive than "Béarnaise" too. I once bought marked down "Salsa Verde" at the Dollar Store. It was indeed a "salsa" or sauce, but it was nothing like what we Yankees have come to think of as "salsa"
Or on any breakfast cereal. It enhances the milk.
The scariest sentence I've read this week: "I once bought marked down "Salsa Verde" at the Dollar Store."
McCartney was considered for the Romeo role opposite Hussey.
No mention of Bloch Concerto Grosso 2 among the classics?
HUKU has some good stuff w/Paul , I'm told.
"Chipotle" rules!
Original formula Vicks 44, a wonderful tonic with 30% alcohol content. A heavy tablespoon for me as a kid was essentially like a shot glass of vodka, and not only did it stop my coughing from colds, it put me right to sleep. The medicinal taste probably set me up for loving good peaty Scotches, so that was nice of it, too.
Chalupa is what the sophisticated hot sauce user pours onto everything.
HP sauce is pretty similar to Heinz A-1 if I recall correctly, and both are a bit derivative of Worcestershire. Picka-Peppa is quite tasty from the mango, and it used to have tamarind too, but I see that's gone off the ingredients list on the bottle. Still good for pre-seasoning meat though.
My dad made a cough syrup out of water, honey, and whiskey. Said the pediatrician gave them the recipe.
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
I love all the old classics mentioned here. As to sauces, I do use Picka-Peppa and a GF's grandmother's homemade version of HP that she calls Old Zander's. I made it once -- took all day and gave it away as a steak sauce. It's pretty good but too much effort for the results.
Suddenly.....it's not half the steak it used to be...
There's a fork full calling out to me.
Oh, I believe in more HP
Rooster sauce.
"Worcestershire"
As long as it's Lea & Perrins.
(now Heinz)
Patel's Fresh Kitchen Chatpati Chutney. I haven't found anything yet it isn't good on, from eggs to beef to chicken to potatoes to vegetables...
Haven't tried it on tamales, though... hmm...
Lipton Instant Iced Tea Mix, sweetened with saccharine, could be made into a paste, lifted on a spoon, and licked like a horrible Lovecraftian candy. Not admitting that I did so, or that anyone I've ever known did so, but yes, possible.
Off Topic: ACE sports an Althouse column...
So, where did the word 'grok' come from?
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/412914.php
Durkee's Famous. My dad was born and raised in Butte, and whenever we visited my nana we'd bring back pasties (wherever copper was mined, there were Cornishmen and their pasties--I've even encountered them in the UP of Michigan). After nana died, my mom started making them from a Butte recipe book. Hot pasties were always served with gravy, but dad always had Dukes Famous on cold pasties, and I've continued the tradition.
From the podcast transcript: “standing in the kitchen of fourth Lynn Road”.
Althouse went through the trouble of checking and fixing the text?
robother said "I've even encountered them in the UP". Whereas I'd be saying "I've even encountered them in Montana" I thought the UP was the true American home of the pastie, Now I find out there are other contenders.
Growing up in the Boston area we had "Tahtah" Sauce.
Henry Bain sauce made with Major Grey chutney is my family favorite. Great on everything.
When I saw "UP" I thought of the Indian state, Uttar Pradesh . Musta been because of the chutney references.
Homemade molasses. Over thickly buttered white bread, over crumbled cornbread.... Every fall Papaw cut the cane and most of his numerous offspring showed up with spouses and kids to help feed the mill, to encourage the mule to turn the mill, to keep stirring the run off from the mill, to keep the fires going (Do I remember that right?) under the troughs and to feed everybody working and everybody getting in the way. Anyway, big Ball jars of molasses were a staple in all our homes.
Agreed that the UP of Michigan is the default place in the US to find pasties. Even as a Minnesotan, with our iron mines and miners and their pasties, I think UP when I think pasties.
effinayright:
When I see Uttar Pradesh I can't help misreading it as Utter Pradesh, and thinking it must be somewhere way beyond Moderately Pradesh.
l bought a bottle of original HP sauce on Amazon a while back after reading one of James Lileks' bleats when he wrote about having it served with beef steak when he was recently in England. It's pretty good, although rather expensive because it's imported and not in high demand here in the States. To me it tastes like a milder form of A1 sauce with a splash of Worcestershire. I don't think I would put it on a good beef steak, but it's great on a grilled 1 inch thick Iowa pork chop.
It's amazing how even a creative genius like McCartney runs out of creative genius in his 40s.
I agree on Chipotle hot sauce, but the absolute best I've tasted is Marie Sharp's Smoked Habanero from Belize. It adds pureed carrot which attenuates the heat, just a little, and lets the smokiness rise above the heat.
Lead miners ("Badgers") in southwestern WI were also fond of pasties, and Madison is where I first encountered them.
I don't know why it's easier to find HP here than Henderson's Relish (it's like Worcestershire sauce, only better.) Between the two, I'd rather be able to get Henderson's.
Outerbridge's Original Sherry Peppers Sauce, from Bermuda. Does anybody else still eat Snapper soup? The best I've ever had was at a Holiday Inn at 18th & Market (Philadelphia). I'd bring my own bottle.
Agree. And the best version is on the recording "Chet in Chicago", made in 1986. It was released after his death.
I think there's also a version with Chet Baker and Paul Desmond.
Shhh, you aren't supposed to talk about that!!!!
Made with Cain's mayonnaise. Yum! One of the few things I miss about New England.
Bear & Burton's Fireshire W Sauce. It's Worcestershire with a kick. Trust me on this one.
HP sauce is readily available here in SF in Anglo-Irish neighborhoods. I love it but the addition of HFCS makes it off limits. But I bet the A-1 + Worcestershire sauce combo would work well.
HP sauce is also popular in Canada and other former British colonies. Just about every greasy spoon in Toronto that serves a traditional breakfast offers a bottle of HP to glop onto your sunny-side eggs and steak. I used to love the stuff, but now it kicks off my reflux.
The recipe has changed a lot since Paul's day, because a Dutch subsidiary of Heinz bought the company, closed the British factory and moved production to Holland, and EU rules dictated that the original had too much salt and other nasty stuff. Same thing happened to Lee & Perrin's Worcestershire sauce. Both became weak and watery shadows of their former salty, peppery selves. This forced reformulation-by-bureaucrat of two British culinary icons may have had some effect on the Brexit vote in 2016, at least according to some Daily Mail columns I remember reading at the time.
The site of the former HP factory is now used as England's largest distributor of 'Asian' foods, i.e., foods imported from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, countries who now also supply 90% of future Britons. So really, who cares about a recipe for brown sauce? In two generations, there will be no Englishmen left to eat it.
I had HP sauce on bangers and mash at British style pub once. Afterwards I searched out a bottle of the stuff, but it was never any good on anything else.
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