So who went into my Fridge?
By cynthiann
@cynthiann (18602)
Jamaica
October 15, 2009 1:28pm CST
I do not ask for much in life. I am used to cooking for hoards of my children's friends or coming home to find a stranger cooking a meal in my home. That is o.k.
That is how we have always lived. It is not a problem either to share my King sized bed with my daughter's girl friends if thy stay overnight and th blow up bed is full of bodies. No I do not mind sharing anything in my home but do not take my sauce
By sauce I mean H.P. Brown Sauce that is made in the U.K. Everyone knows that if they bypass or stay in the U.K.then please bring me a bottle or two of my favourite sauce. This makes me happy. and I like to be happy
For me it is the ultimate of comfort. It conjures up so many meals as a child with sausages and bacon - a meal fit for an epicurean, as long as it contains a good sized dollop of Brown Sauce.
The son forgot to buy a few bottles in the U.K. on his way back from Dubai and I was not happy. So I kept the last half bottle of sauce carefully hidden at the back of the fridge as it has to last until December 26 when the third son arrives.
This morning I wanted a bacon sandwich for breakfast and guess what? No sauce! I asked the children and they all denied taking it.
Are you lying to your mother I asked?
My grown children literally roll on the ground with laughter. When I am happy I join them. It is a family thing. But I am not happy. They alone were rolling.
So, let me ask you - have you sen it? Who took my sauce?
For me it is the ultimate of comfort. It conjures up so many meals as a child with sausages and bacon - a meal fit for an epicurean, as long as it contains a good sized dollop of Brown Sauce.
The son forgot to buy a few bottles in the U.K. on his way back from Dubai and I was not happy. So I kept the last half bottle of sauce carefully hidden at the back of the fridge as it has to last until December 26 when the third son arrives.
This morning I wanted a bacon sandwich for breakfast and guess what? No sauce! I asked the children and they all denied taking it.
Are you lying to your mother I asked?
My grown children literally roll on the ground with laughter. When I am happy I join them. It is a family thing. But I am not happy. They alone were rolling.
So, let me ask you - have you sen it? Who took my sauce?5 people like this
14 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Oct 09
I haven't seen your sauce. In fact, I knew nothing about the said bottle of sauce until you mentioned it.
It looks like I'm not going to be making it to Europe any time soon as our finances are way too tight, but whenever I do make it, I'll buy you a bottle of sauce and I'll buy a bottle of sauce for myself so that I can experience the joy of said sauce for myself without having to compromise your supply.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
Now that is a wonderful offer to make.The U.K,. is very expensive and is strong against the US dollar so it would be challenging for anyone to go there. I am lucky as I have family. I do hope that you get to reach though and buy the sauce. So good with bacon and sausages and mashed potatoes. Am salivating at the thought of it all. Yoiu can buy it in large plastic bottles that don't weigh too much.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
@jill. Looking stern: Do you have proof of this or is it an assumption?
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
15 Oct 09
I have not seen your sauce & I've never heard of it until you posted about it. I understand your pain. Especially if it's the one thing that makes everything taste "right" to you.
I hope someone confesses soon!
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
15 Oct 09
Well if you do anything for him like laundry or cook a meal or something just don't. You could even be silly and ask him to come closer so you can smell his breath or if it's something that can stain your fingers examine his fingers for it! *LOL* Have you checked your garbage to see if someone used it all up? Maybe in a car? (sometimes people like to stash stuff in their car to hide things) Shoot even have an intervention and demand they confess to whom took it? Where they were since the last time you used it ect?
When you find the guilty party have them pay the brother who is still in England for an extra bottle or two... or even a case shipped home in the guilty ones dime!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
What a wonderful idea. A case! I would be in hog's heaven as a case would last me for a year or two. My stress level would decrease and happiness would be restored. Your suggestions are excellent. Just wait until I get home tonight.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
ah! You do understand how I feel. Will you help me look for it? I suspect the first son but he is still denying it. I believe that he is lying to me as he does not look me int h eye and laughs! But he is 34 so I cannot punish him
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@dreamjapan (409)
• Japan
16 Oct 09
Sorry, wasn't me!!
Wish it was as I now have a craving for brown sauce!!
I live in Jaoan but am from England and brown sauce is one thing that I miss so I know how you feel!!! Have you searched the house, it might have grown legs and walked away!! That happens to my stuff a lot!!
Good luck being sauceless!!!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
No, it didn't grow legs or if it did it walked into some one's stomach! What are you doing in Japan or am I being nosey I am so happy to meet someone that values brown sauce as much as I do. Isn't it wonderful slathered on bacon and sausages? I miss it so much.
Isn't it wonderful slathered on bacon and sausages? I miss it so much.@dreamjapan (409)
• Japan
17 Oct 09
No you are being nosey! My hubby is Japanese, we came here to help his family business, with plans of returning to the great brown sauce country but we had kids, business went downhill and we got stuck in the country of raw fish and wasabi! When my mom was alive she would send me packages from home, brown sauce and oxos were always on top of my wish list!!!
Did you solve the mystery yet, love to know what happened to your sauce!!
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
You are so funny. My husband would have had such fun talking with you. Yes. There is definitely an echo. Thanks!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
16 Oct 09
I didn’t take your sauce, I swear! I wouldn’t dare to go to the back of your fridge and do such a thing...H.P. Brown Sauce...I have heard of it before...I live in Australia and I wonder if you can buy it here...Maybe you can...Which proves that I did not take it!
The culprit has to pay though, what do you think a suitable punishment would be? No more bacon sandwiches perhaps...
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
17 Oct 09
Oh!Oh! I would hate to be him! I'm sure he will regret it! I'm not sure if you can get it here, maybe...I'm all the way in Australia though!
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
I believe the culprit is my eldest son - father of three0 so he should know better. The daughter is scouring our city but has not been able to find it yet in any of the expensive little deli's etc. I would pay anything for a bottle right now. He will definitely pay for this. I amgoing totell his wife so she can lambast him when he sees her at Christmas!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
Foreign poison!
I feel like I have been stabbed in the back! Lemon and Oregano? On a bacon butty! Do you eat it that way?
I feel like I have been stabbed in the back! Lemon and Oregano? On a bacon butty! Do you eat it that way?1 person likes this
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
I don't think that they would dare to do this to you. I bet you would give them, what my children call 'the look'. That special look that onlly ymother's can give that stops them in their tracks.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
15 Oct 09
Of course not, I can't buy any any decent bacon. However if they managed to source it at the taverna and were persuaded against everything they held dear to insert it between two pieces of bread they would have the lemon and oregano on for sure before any chance of stopping them. It goes on everything, and I mean everything.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
16 Oct 09
LOL. I am so sorry to hear that you are missing your sauce. I do not mind sharing alot of things in my home either but there are certain things that are supposed to be just mine. It upsets me also when someone is using something that only belongs to me or takes it from me.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
I know exactly how you feel. It is a violation and someone has to be punished
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
15 Oct 09
Don't point your finger at me young lady as I did not....and I repeat did not take your sauce! LOL.....I am the same way about my diet coke.....don't you dare take the last one! My son did that once.....only once....he still brings it up on ocassion.....I can become very basistic if I am without my favorite beverage!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
15 Oct 09
He took your diet coke? How ungrateful of him and to think that you gave him life. I am shocked.You need to remind him (as a friend of mine did whilst under stress and drama) that you gave him life and by God you can take it too!
Well she told him this as she was chasing him but I am charitably assuming that she was joking.
You need to remind him (as a friend of mine did whilst under stress and drama) that you gave him life and by God you can take it too! Well she told him this as she was chasing him but I am charitably assuming that she was joking.1 person likes this
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I don't know who took your sauce, Cynthia but you tell them to come forth and I will reward them because they inspire you to right these hilarious discussions. I have had a tough nite tonight and the giggles you cause are just what I needed. You are lucky that they are stealing "sauce". When my girls were teens, I had to worry about the Kaluah. I make my own and like to keep a bottle in the cupboard in case of company or in case I would like a drink after work. One nite, I came home and oh I so so wanted to just plop down with a nice soothing drink. I poured my drink in anticipation and instantly started spitting and gagging. They'd replaced my kaluah with coffe, water and suger. It was pretty nasty. Needless to say, I stopped keeping it in the house and went on to only make it on holidays until they grew out of that stage.
You are lucky that they are stealing "sauce". When my girls were teens, I had to worry about the Kaluah. I make my own and like to keep a bottle in the cupboard in case of company or in case I would like a drink after work. One nite, I came home and oh I so so wanted to just plop down with a nice soothing drink. I poured my drink in anticipation and instantly started spitting and gagging. They'd replaced my kaluah with coffe, water and suger. It was pretty nasty. Needless to say, I stopped keeping it in the house and went on to only make it on holidays until they grew out of that stage. 1 person likes this
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
Many thanks for your kind words. I'm pretty sure that it was the eldest son as he keeps looking at me and smiling. I threatened to put him in the naughty corner and as he is a father of three, he just laughed out loud. Now I have to wait until Christmas when the third son comes. Nothing is as good as H.P. Brown sauce. Nothing. woe is me,
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Cynthi, Didn't you already start this discussion? I am not sure... Maybe it was during the glitch. I have not seen your sauce, but if I do I will mail it back to you! lol! Though, I hope I wouldn't find it all the way back here!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
Shush! Don't tell. It was one of mine that got caught in the glitch that no one could respond to: tiptes away softly.........
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Nothing stays hidden in this house!! When I have snacks or things that I don't want the kids taking, I have to hide it in my room. If it's in the fridge or cupboard it's fair game.
I know how you feel though about your special sauce. My foster mom used to send care packages to her ex-husband because he moved from NY to Arkansas. She would send him foods that were only made locally. She'd send a particular type of potato chip they only made here, and baked beans only found here, and Hoffmann hot dogs and Gianelli sausage and salt potatoes.
I'd miss the hot dogs, sausage, and salt potatoes so bad if I ever moved away!
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
Isn't it awful what we miss? It means so much to me to have a few bottles of H.P. Brown Sauce in my food cupboards. They knew it was the last bottle and that was why it was in the fridge as it is so hot where I live. Now I have to wait until December 26 and if he does not bring the sauce then I won't let him in the house!
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Seems if u have a mystery on hand. Now u have to put on a new face , the one of a detective. U know someone knows what happened to it.lol.I had a peacn pie disappear out of mt 'fridge' one year after christmas. That was when my younest was still at home & he didn't eat pecan pie then. Come to find out his friend across the street had taken it. My house was always like a hotel when the boys were home. lol. Hope u find out what happened to it. Let us know if u do.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
17 Oct 09
Boys will be boys as i found out raising two & my home being grand central station as they were growing up. I loved it & miss them all.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
Pecan pie! Someone had the nerve to eat a pecan pie from your home! yep, MINE CAN OFTEN RESEMBLE A HOTEL TOO WHEN THEY ARE AROUND. I am sure that it was the eldest son and he keeps smiling at me!
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@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
16 Oct 09
No brown sauce at my house!!! I am like you. I don't mind sharing as I am often in the same boat as you. However, I love FRESCA...a soft drink here in the states. Everyone know not to drink my Fresca. Heads rolls if I find an empty bottle in the refrig.
@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
16 Oct 09
I haven't heard of Fresca but if I found a bottle over here then I woulod FedEx it to you asap
