Thought this little novelty ' matchsafe ' tin  was rather nice, picked up today for a few quid

Unbelievable. I've lived my whole life with a bottle of HP sauce in the house and never realised that HP referred to the houses of parliment. And I swear I've wondered what the HP stood for more than once. You'd think the picture would have been a sufficient clue. I might have to buy one of enamels guns and shoot myself.

I've since asked 5 people (all in their 60's) if they knew what the HP stood for. No one did.

As they say, the average person is pretty dumb and half the people are dumber than that.

Older brothers have a lot to answer for. I have one too. I wouldn't go in the sea for sometime because my brother told me the undertoad would get me.

 Don't worry Hilbert ..The Undertoad only comes out at night 

Saw this on ebay recently and recognised it's similarity to your HP one.