The HP factory in Aston, Birmingham is now being demolished. Bastards.

Pointless

These big corporations just do whatever they can to improve profits. Which is fine, as thats what they are all about. Just a shame that us poor fools the employees are the ones shafted. My own company is slowly getting rid of us expensive people in the UK that have expensive car allowances, high salaries and share plans, and replacing us with people from Poland, China and India.
What happens to trigger revolutions is the middle classes being pissed off. Crap on the ignorant masses and no-ones gives a hoot. Close down steelmaking and mining in Britain and no-one notices. Start putting educated people on the dole and there will be a pool of leaders that are unhappy. This happened in France at the end of the eighteenth century, and in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.
We've never had a revolution in Britain because the middle classes and educated classes have never been the ones to suffer economic hardship, yet.

Heinz has refused to remove the Houses of Parliament design from it's HP sauce bottles, some Members of the House are trying to have HP sauce banned from the canteen, good on 'em !

Heinz may be feeling the pinch of people boycotting their products, as a plan to allow people to swop another brand of beans for Heinz beans was scrapped after plans of a protest at Touchwood in Solihull: Beans amnestey fails.

I have no desire for all the Heinz employees in wigan that make beans to loose their jobs, but what does Heinz care about them anymore than it cared about Birmingham people ?
OK, copanies must make sound commercial decisions, but to call a product British and have a picture of the epitomy of Britishness - The Houses of Parliament - on its label is downright rude to the people of the country. Take off the picture and call it Dutch Sauce and see how well it sells then !

Bad News

Bad News

Today Hienz told workers at the Aston factory that the plant will close and production go to Holland.

Its all here

So, no more Hienz products for me.

Good News

In the face of the gloom at HP Sauce leaving its spiritual home, browsing the web took me to Russel Davie's website, where he champions the cause of traditional British Caffs. And he has discovered a joy ! That the Little Chef chain is in trouble, and that Little chefs are being sold, and one has been converted into a proper cafe ! The Windy Ridge, on the A523 between Leek and Ashbourne. I remember going past a while ago, and thinking 'keep away, overpriced food ahoy'.

http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/

I should maybe start a blog of my favourite roadside snack bars, those ones in old caravans.
I wonder if simply the Best is still there under the flyover at Orchard Place in Canning Town ?

Nigel Hastilow

What has happened to Nigel Hastilow's wind of change blog ? The anti-Heinz blog that inspired me to create this blog ?

Heinz Baked Beans

DO NOT BUY ANY HEINZ PRODUCTS

Heinz have announced they are closing the Birmingham, UK plant that manufactures HP Sauce. At the moment Heinz are running an advertising campaign titled 'HP Official Sauce of Britain'. No doubt this campaign was run to identify HP as a British brand, so when the sauce is made in Holland, people will still identify HP Sauce with Britain. Well, are we totally dumb ? The answer is to hit Heinz where it hurts,

DO NOT BUY ANY HEINZ PRODUCTS