cholo
6:03 Thu Dec 29
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Park Chan wook
When the mad cow disease story broke in the mid nineties I was convinced I was going to go down with it due to the amount of dodgy burgers I'd eaten at west ham in the last decade or more.
I realise now I needn't had worried, they were almost certainly 100% horse burgers.
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park chan wook
12:52 Thu Dec 29
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Bovril the drink of tough bastards. Being a kid of the 70s and 80s going to Upton Park, it was a test of your character ordering a bovril and getting back to your position on the terraces. Getting 3rd degree burns and not dropping it before you get back was success.
Little pricks today probably cry to their daddies that their hands are stinging from the salt from popcorn getting in to cuts on their hands.
Even burgers outside the ground was a life and death risk. Getting one near the main gates, of the greasy long haired woman, where she kept the burgers warm under her armpits as that was what they smelled of. Great days not arf mate.
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Chigwell
12:10 Thu Dec 29
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When our dog doesn't like his dry food, we put a tablespoon of dilute Bovril on it and he scoffs it down at once. So it must have something in it.
On the other hand, he's been known to eat horse dung......
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Darlo Debs
1:12 Thu Dec 29
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gotta agree with Bruu on this one...
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bruuuno
11:49 Wed Dec 28
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My only association is that I had it a couple of times on the north bank as a boy. Grim stuff, basically runny gravy iirc
YOURS
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gph
11:47 Wed Dec 28
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Wikipedia's page is interesting.
Invented by a Scot to feed Napoleon's armies, it has a long military tradition.
During the siege at Ladysmith, it was replaced by its horse equivalent, Chevril.
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Fivetide
9:18 Wed Dec 28
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Weirdly reminds me of the seaside. When I was young, going to the beach was a mixture of swimming in the North Sea and shivering in a towel. If you were lucky, you could convince a grown up to give you 5p for a plastic beaker of Bovril or watery, red hot tomato soup. Both brilliant!
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Texas Iron
7:06 Wed Dec 28
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Used to take 2 flasks/thermos to the game me and the old man
1 Bovril...1 Brandy with coffee...
Under the stand...just behind the band...
Hot chestnuts too...from outside the ground...
Cold weather favourites..
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The Stoat
7:00 Wed Dec 28
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I enjoyed a cup of it at Swansea .... there's lovely
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cholo
5:36 Wed Dec 28
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Standing on the southbank on a January afternoon with a plastic cup full of molten bovril. Superb stuff.
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Swiss.
3:47 Wed Dec 28
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great in a beef stew. But so is Marmite.
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Tomshardware
3:13 Wed Dec 28
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Anyone had the Bovril in the OS?
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13 Brentford Rd
12:37 Wed Dec 28
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It is now made with beef extract once again.
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Tomsdad
11:43 Wed Dec 28
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Perfect hot beverage on a Tuesday night at The Park!
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Chip Shop Charlie
10:40 Wed Dec 28
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I always had the furry tongue thing from drinking it too hot.
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Willtell
9:44 Wed Dec 28
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My wife thinks I'm mad when I enjoy the occasional cup of Bovril. Why do you drink gravy she says? Weird I guess but I always drunk it at football.
On a cold match day (when I'm sat by my computer on a stream in the south of France) it's a habit I can't break. A bit like supporting WH....
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BubblesCyprus
9:05 Wed Dec 28
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Hot Drink ,Gravy or Crisps = Bovril
On Toast all others = Marmite
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jayjones
8:35 Wed Dec 28
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More expensive than marmite
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stomper
2:10 Wed Dec 28
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Better when it included beef. A near fatal hit from mad cow disease.
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Hello Mrs. Jones
2:07 Wed Dec 28
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Toasted onion bagel. Thick butter and a generous wipe of the Bovvers..mmmmmm
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