Re: No more toast?

Ben Newsam wrote:
> vickiebee wrote, though the Organization header says "A noiseless 
> patient Spider":
[..]
>> 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.
> 
I googled  - it was Bovrite. "American" version. The US banned Bovril
because it didn't pass USDA standards.

> [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.
> 

;) I had people in my family with the same attitude. Short and sweet and
cut to the bone.
v

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