The reason why HP sauce can’t be found on South African shelves
HP Sauce, with its signature square bottle and blue label, is a breakfast essential for many South Africans.
More than 28-million bottles of the iconic HP Sauce are consumed annually across the world, but no longer in South Africa.
The familiar House of Parliament bottles will no longer be found on South African shelves.
Pioneer Foods — now owned by PepsiCo — had been procuring, distributing, and selling HP Sauce in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia for many years, but those licences expired in May 2020 and were not renewed.
People rushed to Spar Waterfall, but their luck was out.
A quick survey of supermarkets and convenience stores yielded no HP Sauce results. Have you been lucky to find a bottle?
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