Do you like Bovril?

Ginger83

Found a jar of Bovril and it reminded me of my dad bringing me to work with him years ago. He was a boilerman at a hospital keeping the heating system running on turf at the time. He'd pop around the wards to make sure all was ok and the matron would give him a jar of Bovril in winter.

Do you like it?

Dakota Dan

Putrid stuff from what I remember the smell was enough to keep me away from it.

Ginger83

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118658608#Comment_118658608

Hehe I had a mug of it earlier. Warms you up on a day like today

ZX7R

Love it,I always ask for a jar of it to be put in a package when family are sending stuff from home.

As a kid I use to also love a oxo cube in a mug also.

phormium

No, had to drink it every day in school during winter, the smell transports me right back to being a child sitting in the back of the empty class having my lunch, my mother was the teacher so sat at the desk. I hated the stuff but those days you drank/ate what you were given!

Icemancometh

It's the business

My mother often drank it. I think when she was dieting. The smell put me off!

milehip

Rank tack all together, the old lad drinks it occasionally, as other posted it's the smell, world's worst Yankee candle.

Wheety

I have it occasionally. Great in this weather.

the beer revolu

I like it but haven't had it in years. Think I prefer, as mentioned by someone else, an oxo cube in hot water.

Chicken Bovril is nice, too.

howamidifferent

I love it as a drink but also spread thickly on bread and butter...nom nom.

snowgal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118667451#Comment_118667451

yes this!! Love bovril, perfect winter warming savouriness! and yum on bread too

Suckler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118667451#Comment_118667451

Was just going to say the same. I had always had it as a drink, South African guy I worked with always had it on toast and found it strange to have as a drink

the beer revolu

I prefer Marmite on toast or bread. Marmite does not make a good drink, though.

lenscap

Love Bovril as a drink and in some cooking, when a rich beef stock is needed.

Phil.x

Lovely stuff but now expensive, loved having a small spoon of the stuff.