Re: No more toast?

vickiebee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alan B wrote:
> > vickiebee <[email protected]> wrote:
> [..]
> >> I know all about Marmite, I used to have a British roomie. I can
> >> enjoy it if it's spread verrry thinly on hot buttered toast. And I
> >> seem to remember my Okla. grandmother stirring some salty brown
> >> paste into hot water for us kids to drink... sort of like a health
> >> drink... don't remember its name. v
> > 
> > Bovril? About as appetising and disgusting as Wincarnis ;-)
> > 
> You know, Bovril sort of sounds familiar. So, did you ever have to drink
> " a British tonic wine, popular in Jamaica and some other former British
> colonies. ..."
> 
> v - thought castor oil was bad enough

Bovril is concentrated beef stock in a handy cube. IMO half a cube in a
pint of hot water makes a really nice drink.  I do the same with Knorr
chicken stock cubes.

I don't think I've ever had Wincarnis so I can't say whether it's
appetising or disgusting.  I expect it's  another one of those acquired
tastes.

Some people detest cod liver oil but I quite like it.  I think that must
stem from when when I was an ankle-biter just after WWII.  Food was
scarce so Mum gave us a spoon of cod liver oil and malt extract as a
vitamin supplement.

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