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!