Qadgop, you’re a strange, strange man.
I like that about you. 
Please elaborate. What is this Branston pickle of which you type?
My quirks have won me many admirers, it is true. 
Pasteur got the same reaction. 
I looove Marmite, (oddly, no-one else I know does) so thanks for the tip on Bovril. I had never heard of it.
You know anchovy-paste? My other favourite. That and of course the infamous Geska Krauterkase (green, herb flavoured, salty dried and powdered Swiss Cheese). It is delicious sprinkled over anything, and it is heaven on toast or on beans in tomatosauce on toast.
It’s onions and other crunchy vegetables diced small (or very small if you get the sandwich-filling variety; the regular is fine as a side dish on the plate with cheese or cold meat) and pickled in a rich vinegar/molasses/spicy sauce, not especially hot. You should take to it like a cat to catmint, on the evidence above.
::unable to understand people who have over-sugared their food all their life and cannot cope with delicious savouries::
Btw, I don’t know that Bovril is saltier than Marmite. It’s fuller flavoured, but I think a large part of the difference could be umami.
Vegemite and Bovril are naught but street scag. Marmite is the real old china white. I kickstart my life each and every morning with black coffee and Marmite saltines. Marmite gives me the will to live.
Because you figure the worst you’re ever going to face is already over for the day, might as well go to work?
Branston Pickle is the UK’s best-loved sweet pickle.
For you colonists, here is where you can buy some.
Where you can also buy Marmite, Bovril and Vegemite
Bovril IS a hot drink. I’m a little concerned at all these reports of Dopers taking it in its undiluted, uncut form. It’s supposed to be a kind of beefy soup drink, folks, you’re not supposed to spread it or inject it. You’re supposed to put some of the powder in a mug, add boiling water, wait for the worst of the radiation to die down and then drink it.
Saints preserve us (so to speak)! Pickle on pizza? If that whole “taxation without representation” thing hadn’t been reason enough to throw off the yoke of British tyranny, this atrocity would have, itself, triggered a rebellion.
LOL…with one exception “powder”?
Syrup-like, treacle-like but it’s not a powder.
Add a heafty dollop into a cup via a tea spoon. Add hot water and enjoy.
I liked to drink it with bread. Roll up the bread into dough balls, drop into Bovril and then eat after you have finished drinking the bovril.
Personally, I find Bovril less salty than Marmite (and I find Marmite less salty than Vegemite). I keep it in mostly for cooking - it’s great if you want to make a rich gravy but you don’t have any meat juices or roasting pan to deglaze.
I do use it as a spread, but not so much. Like Marmite, I enjoy it best on bread or cold toast that has been very liberally buttered.
As Usram says, Bovril is a beverage AKA ‘beef tea’ - apparently a traditional way to serve this is in a mug with a generous layer of melted butter floating on the top.
You see, MDs eating stuff like this is just one of the reasons most of us ignore our doctor’s diet advice.
I don’t know how you can eat that crap but you refuse to try menudo.
I recently had friends from New Zealand visit and they brought me a can of lamb’s tongue.
I haven’t open it and have no intention of ever doing so.
But I would rather eat a vat of lamb’s tongue than have Vegemite ever get within 50 yards of my mouth ever again. I can only imagine the thrill of Bovril.
Go ahead – find a better source of various vitamins. (And sodium. :D)
Did you know that for at least a year now, Bovril ( shock horror ) is no longer made from** beef** ? I only discovered this recently when I bought a jar and discovered it is now made from yeast extract , just like Marmite. I tried to find out why they changed it but could not find an answer. Whether it’s to do with mad-cow disease or something similar I just don’t know. In my opinion it doesn’t taste the same as the old drink.
I noticed the other day in a supermarket they was a special offer on Bovril, and the card on the shelf font said “full of beefy goodness”. I wonder if I could get them prosecuted under the Trades Description Act !
Found a news link about it here :- BBC
Having had both Kobe beef and vegemite, something described as the viscous marriage of the two makes me shrivel like a leech in the Dead Sea.