Honestly, the Marmite was bad enough

[slipjig3]

Lest you think I'm the only resident of this apartment who lacks a self-preservation instinct:

Me: [reading] Remind me, what's a Bovril sandwich?
rafaela: That's a sandwich made with Bovril.
Me: [long pause] Okay, let's try this again: what's Bovril?
rafaela: [shrugs] I dunno.

Suffice it to say that punishments commenced, largely noogie-based. And yes, we have reminded ourselves what exactly Bovril is, and um...England, I'm sorry to inform you of this, but we are not impressed. (Then again, I live in the country that gave the world the Twinkie, so I can't exactly take the moral high ground here.)

Comments

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

At least Twinkies... well, they're phallic and filled with cream. I'm not sure if this excuses them but it's good for sophomoric jokes.

Also, you need a "http://" in your link.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

To err is human, to moo, bovine? :D

Sorry, couldn't resist...........

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Sounds like soup base, at least until Unilever contaminated the recipe with yeast. The idea of making a soup-base sandwich rightly makes me a little nauseous.

http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Bovril

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

That's sort of like beef bullion base, right?

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I can't stand Marmite and I wouldn't spread Bovril on bread, but it does make quite a good "beef tea", tasty and sustaining.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

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.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

...
you know i've always thought that quebec was weird, or maybe they just had it in for english canada. but the unholy science that is bovril unleashed on a world to where englishmen put it on bread? they obviously have bigger plans in store for world domination. Pity they make such good meat pies.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"Fluid Beef." That's the sort of phrasing I'd come up with. *is impressed someone coined it 129 years ago*

[fiddledragon]

That's right up there with Potted Meat Food Product. *blech*