cheap bovril?

lumpy_bum

bovril on toast is gorgeous and ive got both my kids eating it, much to my oh's disgust pmsl!
i need to buy another jar soon, cos you can crumble the cubes on toast lol!

when i lived in my home town where its actually made, a friend of the family used to get 10 of the small jars for a pound and 100 cubes for a pound. i dont see him now though as family members have died etc so lost contact, shame though !!!

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Last Saturday morning at my Uni class we were talking about late Victorian London, and how Bovril used to be called 'fluid beef. Bovril sounds a lot better I think .
Apparently the inventor had a huge house in Southwark that was nicknamed 'Bovril Castle' by the locals. I'd switch to cubes, got to be a bit cheaper and less waste

Primrose

Is anybody else buying Bovril in the new squeezy containers? I find them a real pain as the lid mechanism continually gets clogged up with dried up product and a lot of the product gets wasted as you continually have to remove the lid and wash it.

I think the manufactuers are out of touch with what the public want and wonder if it's a simple ruse to make the public buy more jars more quickly. A while back they completely removed the Beef version and replaced it with a Yeast base which was foul.

Bongedone

Primrose wrote: »

A while back they completely removed the Beef version and replaced it with a Yeast base which was foul.

They've switched back now though.

I have not tried the squeezy one. Sounded like a good idea till I read this.

alys_fowler

hmm no but i bought a squeezy marmite a while back and hubby tried it and refused to ever use it again as he said it tasted like plastic, i cant stand the stuff so not sure there

morganlefay

I so agree - tried squeezy Marmite and it's very wasteful because short of cutting the thing open you can't get the last bits out. I think it was just a gimmick, and costs more, so we won't be having that again. Didn't know they did a bovril squeezy too !

Pink.

Hi primrose,

As your thread has dropped down the Old style board I've added it to the existing bovril thread as your advice may help others.

Pink

Iffy_Wallet

This .pdf file tells you the contents and nutritional information for Beef Bovril (jar), Chicken Bovril (jar) and Bovril Beef Stock Cubes.

http://bovril.co.uk/content/nutrition/nutrition.pdf

I've used the cubes recently, but I haven't tried anything out of the jars for years. Marmite is getting rather expensive, and I imagine the same is happening to Bovril, (but I could be wrong). I like Marmite on toast, but can't keep up with all the price rises.

I believe that Bovril had a product recall, covering thousands of jars, in 2008, though I'm sure that it will be extra delicious in 2010/2011.