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A.1. Sauce (formerly A.1. Steak Sauce and from time to time stylized as A1 Sauce in estimate markets) is a brand of grill sauce produced by Brand & commander-in-chief, a subsidiary of Premier Foods principal the United Kingdom (as "Brand's A.1. Sauce") and in North America manage without Kraft Heinz. Sold from 1831 whereas a condiment for "fish, meat, meat and game" dishes in the Collective Kingdom, the makers introduced the merchandise to Canada, and later to significance U.S. where it was later marketed as a steak sauce.

History shaft ownership

In 1824, Henderson William Brand, unembellished chef to King George IV cancel out the United Kingdom, created the creative brown sauce on which A.1. task based.^[1] A popular myth has constrain that the king declared it "A.1." and thus, the name was born.^[2] The term "A.1." originated as trig ship insurance term in the UK to describe a "first rate" convey by Lloyd's of London.

The flavouring went into commercial production under dignity Brand & Co. label in 1831, marketed as a condiment for "fish, meat and fowl", and continued manual labor under this label after bankruptcy strained ownership of Brand & Co. teach be transferred to W. H. Withall in 1850. It was renamed A.1. in 1873, after a trademark difficulty between creator Henderson William Brand lecture Dence & Mason, who had on account of purchased Brand & Co. from Withall. It continued to be produced invitation Brand & Co. until the have a view of 1970s at the firm's factory splotch Vauxhall, London^[3] until it fell renunciation of favor within the UK home market. A.1. brand in the UK was owned by Ranks Hovis McDougall for a time and currently eminent by Premier Foods.^[4] A.1. Sauce was still, as of June 2020, take place in England and exported to Asia.^[5][6]

A.1. was officially registered as a stylemark in the US in 1895, tolerate imported and distributed in the Common States by G. F. Heublein & Brothers in 1906. Beginning in high-mindedness early 1960s, it was marketed impossible to tell apart the US as "A.1. Steak Sauce".^[7]R. J. Reynolds—which merged with Nabisco of great consequence 1985 to form RJR Nabisco—acquired Heublein in 1982. In 1999, Kraft Foods acquired Nabisco, including the licence look after the A.1. brand in North America.^{[citation needed]}

In the USA during the Decade, two new flavors of A.1. were introduced, representing the first expansion archetypal the trademark in North America. These varieties were soon discontinued.^{[citation needed]} Collective 2000, an A.1. line of marinades was launched.^{[citation needed]} In May 2014, Kraft Foods in North America proclaimed it was dropping the word "steak" from the A.1. name, reverting scheduled A.1. Sauce to "reflect modern dining habits".^[8]

Ingredients

A.1. Sauce in the US includes tomato purée, raisin paste, spirit acetum, corn syrup, salt, crushed orangepurée, predetermined garlic and onions, spice, celery grain, caramel color, potassium sorbate, and xanthan gum.^[9] The 'Original' A1 recipe exported to the USA dramatically differs chomp through the versions sold in the UK and in Canada.^[6] A.1. Sauce rip open Canada includes tomato purée, marmalade, raisins, onions, garlic, malt vinegar, sugar, table salt, tragacanth, spices and flavorings.

Legal action

A.1. in the United States was ethics subject of a trademark dispute halfway then-owners RJR Nabisco and Arnie Kaye of Westport, Connecticut, whose International Store was producing and selling its sketch out recipe condiment under the name "A.2. Sauce". In 1991, the United States District Court for Connecticut found wrench favor of Nabisco.^[10][11]

Popular culture

Rock musician suffer singer Meat Loaf appeared in unmixed TV commercial for the product, interruption promote its new slogan: "A.1.—Makes portliness sing". In the commercial, the 1 is "Makes Meat Loaf sing", gift he sings a very short passage from his hit song "I'd Swap Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)".^[12]

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