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Slim of dom
Date: July 5, 2017Author: Vuurvliegie se lekkervurigeaffêre 3 Comments
Lees gister in Sarie oor Bovril en Marmite. Sal Rots met my stry oor wie eerste was – Bovril was. Bovril is in 1870 ontwikkel. In 1902 het dieselfde maatskappy ’n vegetariese opsie, Marmite, bekend gestel. Jou ma het besluit of die huishouding ge-Bovril of ge-Marmite.
Rots vrek oor Bovril, en saam met sy boeties het het hulle kleintyd lelike goete oor Oxo en Marmite te sê gehad. Sal net sê die bestanddele is verdag gemaak. Gebruik jou verbeelding. Dié snobisme is egter vinnig by die deur uit as Skoonma Biebs Marmite tert opgedis het!
Nou onlangs lees ek met smaak vir Rots dat wetenskaplikes meen Marmite op jou broodjie mag dalk ‘n positiewe impak op brein aktiwiteit hê omdat dit ryk is aan vitamien B12, wat op sy beurt weer die liggaam aanmoedig om ‘”the neurotransmitter that “regulates the delicate balance of activity needed to maintain a healthy brain,” te vervaardig. Lekker slaan die blindesambok vir Rots!
So sedertdien is daar nou Slim en Dom op die inkopielysie in my huis. Slim is natuurlik Marmite en Dom – die Bovril. Ek is die verbruiker van Slim. Sweer dis hoekom my gesin my hulle persoonlike Google maak. Ek moet alles weet én kan antwoord. Dankie Marmite!
Ek het op allerhande interessanthede afgekom toe ek oor Bovril en Marmite opge-Google het, hierdie blog het my aandag getrek:
One word goes back to Shakespeare’s day; the other is science-fictional
‘How can Bovril be suitable for vegetarians?’ asked my husband. ‘Bo- comes from bos, Latin for an ox.’ He was staring at a label that said: ‘Beef Bovril. Beef flavoured drink.’ This is a preparation of dried granules, containing yeast extract but no beef, which therefore not only suits vegetarians but also counts as halal. I must say I shared my husband’s confusion, for there is still the tarry-looking substance in jars labelled ‘Beef Bovril: the original beef extract’, which is 43 per cent beef stock and 24 per cent yeast extract.
Bovril is made by Unilever, just like Marmite, which caused 24 hours of yeasty frenzy last week when the price was said to have been affected by looming Brexit. Marmite is simply yeast extract, first made in 1902 from by-products of brewing at Burton upon Trent.
The clue to the word marmite is on its label: a cooking pot, in French marmite. The stuff was marketed to enrich soup or stew. But marmite had been used in English since Shakespeare’s day to mean a metal cooking pot with a hook each side to hang over the fire. It was peculiar to Shropshire and the West Midlands. I don’t know why. The pronunciation was marmit. In the 19th century the word was reintroduced from French, with a Frenchified pronunciation, marmeet. In the first world war the word, pronounced in the French way, was given to a bomb or shell shaped like a pot.
Bovril takes us into the wild science-fiction, eugenic, theosophist world of the bestselling author Bulwer Lytton, who introduced the made-up word vril in his novel The Coming Race in 1871. The narrator half explains vril as being like electricity, mesmerism, or the odic force (found streaming from the fingertips, according to Baron Karl von Reichenbach, 1788-1869). Madame Blavastky got very excited by vril.
One more meaning congealed from the notion of Bovril. Bovrilise meant to boil down language like meat concentrate, as in our text-speak, or the Edwardian newspaper small ad: ‘Wanted, Sit. as Comp. by Eng. lady, 35; good Fr.; good refs.’ But this metaphoric use of bovrilise was soon forgotten, as no doubt, too, the Marmite war of 2016 soon will be.
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3 thoughts on “Slim of dom”
Nou toe nou, daar leer ek alweer iets. Ek het grootgeword met OXO en Marmite; het eers later kennis gemaak met Bovril, maar nou staan ek saam met Rots – net omdat Marmite nie so lekker smeer nie. Ek druk sommer my vinger in die Bovrilpotjie (niemand anders in die huis eet dit nie) en lek my vinger af. Heerlik!
Ek begin alleen voel, maar as ek eerlik moet wees, is Bovril lekker sme(e)riger as Marmite. Ek hou my Dom en Slim buite die yskas, en het agtergekom, kleiner potjies Slim wat nie te lank staan nie, smeer billik.
Marmite bo, dis al wat ek te sê het!!! Ek het lekker geglimlag vir jou skrywe. Lekkervurigeaffêre, hoop jy besef ons waardeer en geniet jou blog!