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Post by Moose on Oct 30, 2022 0:10:14 GMT
I've got so into this stuff lately - I start each morning with a piping hot mug of it. Great stuff - though rather high in salt so I try to keep it to one mug a day. Any fans?
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Post by tangent on Oct 30, 2022 3:41:36 GMT
I've never been a fan of Bovril and haven't had a cup since I was a teenager. It's alright, just not... coffee.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 30, 2022 8:06:49 GMT
Shouldn't you compare it to soup rather than coffee?
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Post by Kye on Oct 30, 2022 8:47:02 GMT
Bovril... Ew.
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Post by tangent on Oct 30, 2022 10:40:42 GMT
Shouldn't you compare it to soup rather than coffee? Soup is traditionally consumed in a bowl with a soup spoon whilst Bovril is normally drunk in a mug. So as a beverage, the method of drinking is closer to coffee than soup.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 30, 2022 11:18:10 GMT
Has the existence of cup soups passed you by?
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Post by Elis on Oct 30, 2022 11:22:44 GMT
Never had it, but k ow about it. I could imagine trying it, just maybe not first thing in the morning.
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Post by tangent on Oct 30, 2022 14:38:54 GMT
Has the existence of cup soups passed you by? Are they real soups? I have drunk tomato soup from a mug but that's not the traditional method. I reckon cup-a-soups are a marketing invention. It's a lazy way of drinking soup especially if you're a student and don't have any bowls.
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Post by Moose on Oct 30, 2022 23:18:27 GMT
I drink it from a mug but use a spoon.
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Post by Elis on Oct 31, 2022 21:54:46 GMT
I remember tomato soup in vending machines which was drunk from a cup. Not sure if that still exists. Never bought it.
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Post by tangent on Nov 1, 2022 0:03:23 GMT
I might have to concede on this one. I still think soup is only proper soup if it's served in a bowl.
On a different tack, Bovril is presumably named after bos (pl. bovis), the Latin word for a cow, bull or ox. And yet in Latin it is a feminine noun.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 1, 2022 13:23:14 GMT
I don't know it, nor have I ever had it, but it sounds like beef bouillon...with which to make a beef broth.
Looking it up on Google presents comparisons between it and Marmite, so I'm assuming that they have 'taste' similarities.
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Post by Moose on Nov 1, 2022 23:55:41 GMT
Marmite is veggie
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Post by JoeP on Nov 2, 2022 7:35:47 GMT
On a different tack, Bovril is presumably named after bos (pl. bovis), the Latin word for a cow, bull or ox. And yet in Latin it is a feminine noun. It's more than that: Bo- or Bov- from bos as in bovine ... but -vril from the mystical source of energy and healing in the 1871 Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel The Coming Race - also Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Edward Bulwer-Lytton:
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Post by tangent on Nov 2, 2022 12:13:20 GMT
*shakes head* I should have looked it up.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 2, 2022 17:10:07 GMT
Marmite is veggie Okay. So, why are there multiple online sites trumpeting taste comparisons?
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Post by Mari on Nov 2, 2022 18:07:12 GMT
If people can make veggie versions of meat, why not make meaty versions of veg?
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 2, 2022 19:20:43 GMT
Meaty vegs...Veggy meats.
I suspect that its more like the Aussies are just raking up whatever muck they can and stuffing it into bottles to ship off to the home isles and other clueless rubes. I'd bet that the name assigned depends upon whether or not some hapless livestock tumbled into a rendering vat. They're having a hearty laugh over a free cold beer while they tote up their fistfuls of pound notes.
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Post by Moose on Nov 3, 2022 2:32:57 GMT
Bovril is not Australian And vegemite is apparently vastly popular in Oz .. not so well known here.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 3, 2022 16:06:03 GMT
My bad. I guess it's Vegemite that is Aussie. You folks rake up and bottle your own muck. The Aussies merely copy you.
Still, it sounds as though the difference between the 'beef' and the 'veggie' is that some poor animal fell in the rendering vat.
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Post by Moose on Nov 4, 2022 0:01:32 GMT
That probably is largely the difference yes. Though I gather Bovril has more salt.
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