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Bovril on toast

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@Dyna-ti

Mine used to be when I got home, the vending machine at the leisure centre always seemed to be bust 🙁


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 10:54 am
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Your Nutella must be a lot more savoury and salty than any I’ve tried.

A better analogy is “I like strawberry jam, I’m going to give that raspberry jam a try”. That sounds fair enough to me.

Perhaps, but that's entirely the opposite point to the one I was making.


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 12:49 pm
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Local food van used to cook Lorne sausages and then leave them sitting in a tray of Bovril, most folk wouldn't take a freshly cooked Lorne but wanted one that had been soaking in the hot Bovril liquid for at least a half hour.
It was amazingly tasty...


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 7:26 pm
 Bazz
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You're all perverts!


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 8:05 pm
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Perhaps, but that’s entirely the opposite point to the one I was making.

Nope.


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 8:13 pm
 beej
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You’re all perverts!

Don't knock it til you've tried it.

And try bovril toast too.


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 9:36 pm
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Lorne Sausage sat in Bovril sounds next level dirty! Incredible.


 
Posted : 10/08/2024 11:35 am
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Ok. Which jam is made out of beef?

Given that for a time Bovril wasn't made with beef, or any meat products at all, and pretty much nobody noticed, it's mostly the yeast extract that you're tasting. Whilst Bovril is its marketed as tasting 'beefy' and obvs contains beef broth (except for when it didn't) then its not the key flovour - in the same sense I'm not sure that beef wouldn't be described as tasting like bovril.


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 10:36 am
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That's an interesting premise.

Marmite is yeast extract - it comes from leftovers from beer brewing - and tastes almost nothing like Bovril.  A quick google suggests that Bovril is 50% "beef broth" and 27% "yeast extract."  Looking at Marmite's ingredients would suggest that it's not unreasonable to say that Bovril is one quarter Marmite.  Both contain "flavourings," so read into that what you will.

Amusingly, Google also suggests that local supermarkets have it in stock...


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 11:50 am
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Vegemite. Waaaay nicer.

(Although not when you're super drunk and your wife tells you it's a spoon full of Nutella.... That was a shock!)


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 1:50 pm
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I used to enjoy a Bovril and pepper hot drink, but never enjoyed it as a spread.

Marmite on hot buttered crumpets, or with cheese sandwiches/toasties are exceptional.

I'll often eat a packet of cheddar biscuits dipping them into a jar of marmite.

And .. Tesco & Morrisons own brand Marmite is, in my opinion, better than the original.


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 6:42 pm
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