Oxo

Khandro | 21:12 Mon 02nd Oct 2023 | ChatterBank

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Does anyone still drink it? I don't know why it just came to mind. When I was a child my mother used to give it to me as a beverage, a cube dissolved in hot water. It was dark brown & salty, I suppose because it was full of protein.

I once knew an elderly lord (r.i.p.) who 'had to have' at 11:00 a.m. daily & precisely, something he called his 'Bullshot'; an OXO cube dissolved in hot water with cognac.

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Hazlinny

Yes, now and again, especially in Winter. No cognac!

david small

I used to love a cup of oxo when coming out of the swimming baths. Twopence a cup from a machine if I recall correctly.

piggynose

Nah its gotta be Bovril!

Buenchico

Gravy meant Oxo when I was a kid but I don't recall ever having it as a drink at that time. It wasn't until I was refereeing local league football in Sheffield, in the 1970s and 80s, that I got offered Oxo (or Bovril, depending upon the host team's preference) at half time in some matches.

I was once reported to the County FA for taking a bribe though, solely because I'd accepted a cup of Oxo/Bovril at half time from the home side. Their opponents had convinced themselves that my accepting a hot drink was the only reason that they'd lost the match. That was despite the facts that . . .(a) it was a cup game and their opponents were from a level of football seven layers above their own ;
(b) they'd lost the game with a score of 10-1 (and with that '1' being an own goal too) ; and
(c) their team was already 6-0 down at half-time, before I'd even been offered the drink!

Gromit

I do not drink tea or coffee, so on cold winter days I will have a mug of chicken Oxo. Or if I am ill and need liquids but am not hungry.

Dagman

I used to take a flask of oxo drink to work and enjoy cheddar cheese rolls with it, bliss. In fact I think I'll do it again ( without the work bit!).

Countrylover

I used to eat oxo cubes as a child! Loved them.

david small

Sometimes Chris you can't do right for doing right:-(

Dagman

Buenchico, your experience at the footie reminds me of a friend who told me he played for a Sunday league team years ago. He said one of the team suggested they put Ralgex on their wristbands to keep warm, it sent them all doolally and were 9-1 down by half time, the ref called the game off and got stick for it as they were convinced they'd win!

Sam1960

Haven't had a cup of oxo for ages. Used to enjoy the occasional one though as a kid in the 70's

(used to add a pinch of pepper to it)

Buenchico

Thanks, Dagman.

I could probably write a book about my Sunday leaue experiences ;-)

[The local newspaper enjoyed covering the story of me sending the same player off twice in a match but missed out on the guy that I sent off three times in one!]