Re: No more toast?

vickiebee wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless
patient Spider":

>Ben Newsam wrote:
>[..]
>> 
>> Hello. Marmite and Vegemite and Bovril are all very very different 
>> from each other, other than a vague similarity of colour and
>> texture. They are most definitely not interchangeable, and they all
>> have their uses.
>> 
>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.

That could have been either Marmite or Bovril[1], both make a thin
salty drink.

[1] Back in the <mumble> sixties, the advertising phrase for Bovril
was "Good, Hot, and Beefy". I used to take my lunch at a tiny wooden
hut on wheels on Norwich Cattle Market[2]. There was a Scotsman who
used to have a hot Bovril drink every day. He almost never spoke,
being of the dour Scot variety. One day, he got up to go, said
"Weeell... it wasnae gud, it wasnae hot, and it wasnae beefy", and
left.

[2] Not there any more, it has been replaced by a huge underground
shopping mall.
-- 
Ben