Bovril

[WoodyP]

Bullshot made with Bovril vodka Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco optional, black pepper.

 

[wonkywinch]

In the 1970s I knew a food biologist (or similar job title). Their job was to minimise waste in food production. The firm she worked for invented Hula Hoops that were made from the starch/scum left over from boiling potatoes to make Cadbury's Smash.

 

[johnalison]

Gammeldansk which is a pretty foul drink.

Understatement of the year.

 

[Tintin]

I was on an exercise in Northern Norway with some Danish Marines who drank a Bovril-like soup make from concentrate in tubes. They made it more palatable with Gammeldansk which is a pretty foul drink.

Eugh, I still have bad memories of a night drinking Gameldansk.

 

[SimonX]

Eugh, I still have bad memories of a night drinking Gameldansk.

Shows how bad the soup must have been if Gammeldansk improved it!

 

[Juan Twothree]

True. Wikipedia has a Bovril Boats entry.

There's a reason the Black Deep was called the Black Deep

 

[LittleSister]

Marmite is just cheap residue from another process.

So is humanity!

 

[Thresher]

Somewhere I have it in the back of my mind that naval types during WW2 had bovril with port in it, perhaps it was Jack Hawkins in Cruel Sea?

I watched it recently. If it was, I missed it.

 

[davidej]

An OXO cube in boiling water does the same job.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I watched it recently. If it was, I missed it.

It's been corrected earlier Noel Coward in In Which we Serve and it was Sherry.

 

[Wansworth]

So is humanity!

Speak for yourself

 

[Poignard]

An OXO cube in boiling water does the same job.

I came in from a walk in the cold the other day and fancied some something warming to drink. A Knorr chicken stock cube in a mug of hot water was just the job.

 

[LittleSister]

. . . A Knorr chicken stock cube in a mug of hot water was just the job.

Their beef ones are neither fish Knorr fowl!

 

[Poignard]

Their beef ones are neither fish Knorr fowl!

 

[Leslie frank]

Ovaltine every time

 

[Frogmogman]

It's been corrected earlier Noel Coward in In Which we Serve and it was Sherry.

There’s even a thing about it in this month’s classic boat

 

[Malish]

Warning! Not to be read before meals..

Back in the 1960's /70's and probably long before, there were Dredger like ships on the River Thames. They plied their trade between a major sewage plant in London and the outer Thames Estuary. Once offshore clear of the North Foreland they would open the hull bottom doors and discharge into the ebb tide.
These ships owned or operated by the old London County Council as was, were known as " Bovril Boats " and given a very wide berth by all but desperate unemployed Seaman..

Not just a Thames feature, they were quite popular all around the coast.. https://shippingtandy.com/features/the-bovril-boats/

 

[SimonX]

Ovaltine every time

 

[dgadee]

Not just a Thames feature, they were quite popular all around the coast.. https://shippingtandy.com/features/the-bovril-boats/

Yes. Belfast Lough too. I sailed accidentally through the waste once. Pretty obvious. But they used to dump untreated waste out from Groomsport just at the shore and I frequently kayaked through that. Those were the days.

 

[SimonX]

Yes. Belfast Lough too. I sailed accidentally through the waste once. Pretty obvious. But they used to dump untreated waste out from Groomsport just at the shore and I frequently kayaked through that. Those were the days.

Groomsport, now there's a place I haven't thought about in a long while. My mum had a lot of family in the Bangor area including one in Groomsport who we used to visit.. Their address always amused me - 4 The Point. Long dead now.
Lovely little harbour with old cottages