Beefy Bovril is the beef extract equivalent of Vegemite, except it’s a runny, treacle like toxic substance remotely tasting like Vegemite (which is a yeast extract). 

I think Beefy Bovril is a cow-flavoured jam tasting like a nasty concoction of charcoaled animal lard and stale stout infused with cow poo.

One story of its origins was that the French army were notorious surrenderors in the late 1800s, because of a lack of meat sustenance.

The Beefy Bovril Legend was that the French government ordered a million tins of beef from a shrewd Scotsman who realised there was no way he could meet the dodgy contract by poaching fat cattle alone.  Instead, he boiled up any meat he could lay his hands on (probably including decomposing haggis) and spent his time mashing the meat through a sieve. 

He had unwittingly developed liquid bovine that had a shelf life longer than the half-life of highly radioactive nuclear power station waste.

Why people preferred buying preserved gooey beef instead of fresh solid beef was beyond me.

Anyway, Beefy Bovril is still around, so there must be a market for this strange product!  If you’re desperate for a protein hit, Beefy Bovril might just be for you!

Or maybe you could try some other weird food, listed in my post of 52 Weird Food and Drink Facts!