Some of the stories below are true, some are not. Can you separate the fact from the fiction? Go on, have a go…
1/Lea & Perrins was first introduced as being for medicinal purposes.
2/A bottle very closely resembling the Lea & Perrins shape was found during the 1975 mission to the moon. It is believed that it may either have been left by the 1969 Neil Armstrong mission or somehow arrived there as a result of breaking free from the space debris currently circling the earth.
3/If you put them end to end, all the L&P bottles manufactured in a year would go the length (on both banks) of the Zambezi river 100 times.
4/It has said that drinking one tablespoon of Worcester Sauce after a heavy night will leave you hang-over free.
5/Consumers in El Salvador put Worcestershire Sauce on ice cream.
6/In 1980 the Worcester Sauce factory was haunted by the ghost of an ex-employee.
7/Found in a recent newspaper in Nairobi - "COUGH KILLER: if you have a bad cough and cannot afford cough mixture, mix cooking oil with Worcestershire Sauce and drink it three times a day. It works just as well".
8/The Lea & Perrins trees providing the roots which are ingredients in Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce, grow only in orchards and in exceptionally rich brown soil fertilised with rotting mushroom manure.
9/The latest batch of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce is tested every morning at the factory at 08.30am by a group of qualified taste testers. They always taste it with freshly made Shepherd's Pie - the only scientifically valid way to verify the taste profile.
10/Canadians eat 5 times more Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce than milk, resulting in their rather unstable mentality and propensity to get colds frequently.
Put more than a 'skip', put a sprint into your diet with Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce.