When Britain panicked over the 2016 Marmite shortage, Gary Lineker counted himself lucky: 'So relieved this morning that I don't like marmite.' Eight words that filed England's great goalscorer firmly in the hate camp.
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What is Bovril, and what is actually in it?
Bovril is a beef and yeast extract paste: 50 per cent beef broth, 27 per cent yeast extract, which makes it a quarter of the way to being Marmite. It was invented in the 1870s by a Scottish butcher in Canada to fill Napoleon III's order for a million cans of beef, was originally called Johnston's Fluid Beef, and takes its name from the Latin for ox plus a fictional energy source from an 1871 science-fiction novel.
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