Re: No more toast?

In article <1qv39vu.1yxdqy71f5kwq8N%[email protected]>, Sn!pe
<[email protected]>  on Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 11:54:07 awoke Nicholas
from his slumbers and wrote
>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.
>
When I started school in 1952 the class used to queue up for their
spoonful of codliver oil followed, as a reward, by a spoonfull of thick
gooey orange concentrate.  The orange concentrate was really rather
nice, but I was already showing signs of allergy to fish so I received
neither :(
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