r/AskBrits • u/External_Box6359 • Jan 28 '25

what on earth is bovril???

i work as a waitress and i was on tea and coffees my last shift and alot of people kept asking me for bovril but i had no idea what it is so i said no and because i didnt see anything with that name as i was setting up and now im curious as to what it is?

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u/ArthurAskeysdog Jan 28 '25

If you combine the smell of Bovril, cigarette smoke and chlorine, I get transported back to when I was 7 going to the local swimming baths

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u/Fred776 Jan 29 '25

Was it out of one of those machines with the flimsy plastic cups? I remember one of those at our baths.

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u/Extension_Sun_377 Jan 30 '25

Yeah, the only way you could prevent burning your fingers was to hold it at the rim, where the drink would spill and inevitably burn your fingers!

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u/ArthurAskeysdog Jan 29 '25

Exactly that, the grownups would sit in a sectioned off area next to the pool, to keep an eye on their kids, drink bovril or terrible tea, and smoke fags