ext_67324 ([identity profile] pseydtonne.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] slipjig3 2009-07-22 12:45 am (UTC)

By the way, Bovril was invented in Quebec, not England. Inventor John Lawson Johnston was Scottish, but his first public run of his Fluid Beef was in Canada in 1880. The Anglo Guide to Survival in Quebec (published in 1982) mentions it was first tried on patrons of a Quebec Winter Carnival (who didn't like it). The only other reference I find about Canadian trials is the wiki page about Johnston, but that mentions Canadian Army tests instead.

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