Food, glorious food.....

Shopping in a local market I found a bottle of "chip-shop style curry sauce". Knowing how unique the real thing is I picked it up and had a look. Bizarrely it was made in the UK, labelled to be exported to the USA and then has found it's way back on the shelves here again. That in itself is vaguely interesting but it's the small detail that is odd.

Firstly, as far as I know, the US doesn't have chip shops - at least not proper unhealthy greasy expensive ones like we do. Therefore surely that phrase means little or nothing over there ?

Secondly, and here's the bit that is frankly just plain strange, is that the brand on it is "Norfolk Manor" with a little drawing of a large stately home.

What ?!

I really can't see the lord of the manor asking Jeeves the butler "if he would be so good as to bring the bottled curry sauce to put on ones chipped potatoes as the hot greasy paper is burning through ones tweed". I know we have an image of a little country stuck in the "good old days" but that's simply weird.

What's next ? "Queen Victorias own knees-up cockney tikka-masalla sauce guvnor" ???

The Austin Powers films and Dick van Dykes accent have such a lot to answer for........