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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 3244669, member: 29"]Lord, you lot are good! I'd thought it might be Reading pronounced as in the city, but I'd no idea about the sauce. A fair bit older than I'd thought, I think, too. It sounds as though it was a type of Worcester sauce: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/readingsauce.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/readingsauce.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/readingsauce.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What's fascinating is that I surmise the origins may go back to the Roman occupation of Britain. Garum. </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought it out of sheer curiousity for a whole fifty pence. I am rather pleased, it's a serious piece of history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 3244669, member: 29"]Lord, you lot are good! I'd thought it might be Reading pronounced as in the city, but I'd no idea about the sauce. A fair bit older than I'd thought, I think, too. It sounds as though it was a type of Worcester sauce: [URL]http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/readingsauce.htm[/URL] What's fascinating is that I surmise the origins may go back to the Roman occupation of Britain. Garum. I bought it out of sheer curiousity for a whole fifty pence. I am rather pleased, it's a serious piece of history.[/QUOTE]
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