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Gramaisc

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I got into an appalling situation in Tesco years ago because of Bovril.

I used to take a bloke shopping there and he could get into conversations with (largely unwilling) folk that could go on for ages. I used to pass the time by volunteering to find the more obscure items.

Bovril is a product that doesn't really have a definite place in the shelving system of different stores, but I like to find things, rather than just ask straightaway.

I had to give up, though, and eventually asked a shelf-stacker that I picked at random.

"Do you know where the Bovril is?", I asked the poor chap, and it quickly became apparent that he had only recently arrived in the UK from India.

"What is Bovril?" was his response.

I descended into what really does sound a bizarre description - how it is essentially a cow that has been boiled down to the point that you can pour it into a jar...

It became clear that he thought I was 'having a go' at his innocent ethnicity.

I did eventually find a jar and went back to explain that, as mad as it sounds, it really is a 'thing'.
 
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Gramaisc said:
I got into an appalling situation in Tesco years ago because of Bovril.

I used to take a bloke shopping there and he could get into conversations with (largely unwilling) folk that could go on for ages. I used to pass the time by volunteering to find the more obscure items.

Bovril is a product that doesn't really have a definite place in the shelving system of different stores, but I like to find things, rather than just ask straightaway.

I had to give up, though, and eventually asked a shelf-stacker that I picked at random.

"Do you know where the Bovril is?", I asked the poor chap, and it quickly became apparent that he had only recently arrived in the UK from India.

"What is Bovril?" was his response.

I descended into what really does sound a bizarre description - how it is essentially a cow that has been boiled down to the point that you can pour it into a jar...

It became clear that he thought I was 'having a go' at his innocent ethnicity.

I did eventually find a jar and went back to explain that, as mad as it sounds, it really is a 'thing'.
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Bovril, lives by gravy granuals at my normal haunt, however I discovered that H&B sell it, much cheeper than my place, and on a shelf by itself opposite curry sauces and such.....
 
littleme

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Gramaisc said:
It was referred to as "beef tea" on the BBC, when you weren't allowed to use trade names.
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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!
 
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When I got back from my evening walk on the Chase a bit ago a mug of hot Oxo is what I had to warm me up. I'm just starting to get the feeling back in my fingers now...
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So you like oxo, but not marmite or Bovril? What's the difference?


*flashback to making a oxo cube holder in woodwork class at school in the 80's
 
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