Mundane facts about your day...

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Gramaisc

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So, the beef tea, that soldiers/people drank in ww2 was Bovril. I didn't know this.

I was reintroduced to Bovril a few years ago as its one of the few things you can have before a colonoscopy..... The joys of middle age!
Beef Tea could be Bovril or Oxo, I suppose.

The origins of the name 'Bovril' are quite interesting, if you have a literary bent.
 

EasMid

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Hot oxo drink with jacobs crackers dunked. The food of gods.
I’m another that used to eat whole oxo cubes as a kid.
In the 60’s/70’s my dad used to drink “Bifti” a powdered instant beef tea drink. I don’t know where he got it but I’ve never seen it anywhere & even google doesn’t find it.
 

Gramaisc

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Hot oxo drink with jacobs crackers dunked. The food of gods.
I’m another that used to eat whole oxo cubes as a kid.
In the 60’s/70’s my dad used to drink “Bifti” a powdered instant beef tea drink. I don’t know where he got it but I’ve never seen it anywhere & even google doesn’t find it.
I'd forgotten all about Bifti - it never had quite the market penetration of Oxo cubes and Bovril.

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Noah

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There used to be an advertising slogan along the lines of "Who is Neverill? The man who always drinks Bovril!"
 

staffordjas

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Marmite on hot buttered crumpets..... Mmmmmmm
You've got me craving for them now. Just added crumpets to next weeks Tesco order :D

Now this is what you call recycling....

Had to dig out an old b'day card from hubby to give to me on Saturday , as he's just realised he hasn't got me one and doesn't want to risk the shops :roll: He's added 2 more 'X' s to the 63 already there to make it 65 (Couldn't find one with 64 'X's on for last year, maybe I didn't get one off him then either ....)
 

proactive

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You've got me craving for them now. Just added crumpets to next weeks Tesco order :D

Now this is what you call recycling....

Had to dig out an old b'day card from hubby to give to me on Saturday , as he's just realised he hasn't got me one and doesn't want to risk the shops :roll: He's added 2 more 'X' s to the 63 already there to make it 65 (Couldn't find one with 64 'X's on for last year, maybe I didn't get one off him then either ....)
Good to see that romance is alive and kicking and living on Wildwood.
 

staffordjas

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Good to see that romance is alive and kicking and living on Wildwood.
After 42 years it's come down , from the usual not giving me the card inside the envelope as he's saving the envelope .

Didn't realise when the coaches arrived for The Grot ( Top of The World ) all those years ago how unromantic West Brom lads were :lol:

At xmas me and son arranged our presents nicely under the big tree. Hubby dumped his down left inside an Iceland carrier bag and dished them out from that !

At least son takes after me and treats special occassions as special. Sons specially made card has come in the post . Already on the windowsill as hubby didn't follow his instructions to grab and hide it as it came through the letterbox , and stood watching me open it early instead . :roll:
 

Thehooperman

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Not so much mundane but a bit strange.

I'm attending a funeral on Monday and the preferred clothing colour is Royal purple so I ordered a shirt from a company in Pershore.

The shirt arrived today and is as per the advertising picture but in the bottom of the parcel is a shirt pocket which I presume they expect you to sew on if you want a pocket.

I've never seen this with any other shirt I've purchased before.
 

tek-monkey

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Not so much mundane but a bit strange.

I'm attending a funeral on Monday and the preferred clothing colour is Royal purple so I ordered a shirt from a company in Pershore.

The shirt arrived today and is as per the advertising picture but in the bottom of the parcel is a shirt pocket which I presume they expect you to sew on if you want a pocket.

I've never seen this with any other shirt I've purchased before.
Did they send thread too?
 
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