Has anyone else heard of stock tea?

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one_pump_chimp@reddit

A cup of Bovril is a standard drink and has been enjoyed for year, a cup of Oxo less so.

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vvvvaaaagggguuuueeee@reddit

I'm such a degenerate that I'll crumble some oxo into my bovril... Bloody lovely it is

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BeccasBump@reddit

I mean... you're just drinking gravy, aren't you? Not my place to judge, but let's not fool ourselves.

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spikewilliams2@reddit

I've always wanted to get one of these to drink but daren't https://preview.redd.it/9rszb2j67x7f1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77a158058b89a3fca77a00feda48cb8a8c63700a

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BeccasBump@reddit

Do you use a Yorkshire pudding as a mug?

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

As a Yorkshireman, keep talking. Mebe wesh it darn with a can o bitter while tha sits ont Allotment watching r Kez flying abart doing fotty miles n hour.

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sitdowncomfy@reddit

don't be ridiculous, the yorkshire is for dipping like a biscuit

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vvvvaaaagggguuuueeee@reddit

Aye, on special holidays. August 1st is fast approaching!

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british_heretic@reddit

You are 97% salt at this point haha (it sounds fucking amazing)

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_cprizzle@reddit

My grandad used to give me oxo cubes to eat.

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Tommy-Foxwell@reddit

A dash of Worcestershire sauce is also good!

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triciama@reddit

I use this mushroom ketchup in soups and sauces. It really adds flavour.

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vvvvaaaagggguuuueeee@reddit

Heck yes it does!

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Wind-and-Waystones@reddit

A spot of redcurrant jelly if you're in the mood for something a little sweet

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vvvvaaaagggguuuueeee@reddit

You cheeky little tart, you!

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Strong_Bumblebee5495@reddit

😝Holy fuck 😝

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Came from a long line of oxo enjoyers. That was a "bovril" in my house. Until my mate gave me an ACTUAL bovril. Whole knew experience. It was like driving a new car off the forecourt after only ever driving old bangers.

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likes2milk@reddit

Though back in the 70s the hot drinks vending machine did oxo

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lithaborn@reddit

Bovril kept me sane on a two day liquid only diet before a colonoscopy

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lil_chunk27@reddit

my dad drinks a cup of Oxo before bed throughout the winter....

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Dadaballadely@reddit

When I was a kid a cup of Bovril was the posh version of a cup of oxo

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NewBodWhoThis@reddit

My wife calls it depression soup, I was too horrified the first time she did it for her to try again.

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mentaldriver1581@reddit

We used to get something called chicken in a mug, as well as beef in a mug when I was a kid. I loved it, but haven’t seen it in stores for years now.

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Stuffedwithdates@reddit

Not by that name but It's basically a modern version of beef tea. you see variations of it all over.

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lastfom@reddit

A cup of oxo was a common drink years ago.

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wookiewithabrush@reddit

Im in the Midlands and used to drink a cup of chicken oxo regularly. Not done it for a for years now though, might give it a go again when the weather starts cooling down though.

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eleridragon@reddit

I still remember being about seven and going 'mountaineering' (it was a big rockery) in our garden one snowy day. Had a flask with hot oxo and my little deckchair to see on when I was tired. So yeah, it's a thing, but never heard it called stock tea, it might be family thing?

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jimmywhereareya@reddit

My mum called it beef tea. Bovril in hot water with the added ingredient... A splash of milk. My parents were both born in Liverpool in 1940. Not sure if that excuses my mum for putting milk in Bovril and calling it beef tea.

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spynie55@reddit

Sounds like very lazily made soup

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OldGuto@reddit

Beef tea.

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tobotic@reddit

I've never heard it called "stock tea", but yes, some people drink stock as a drink. It's not so common these days. Oxo boxes used to have "an appetising beverage" printed on them once upon a time.

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piskyfi@reddit

My mum used to give me what she called “Oxo sops”-An Oxo cube crumbled in hot water with bits of torn up white bread in it with a spoon to eat the soggy bread. A bit like watery soup with rubbish croutons.

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swibbles_mcnibbles@reddit

I know bovril was called Beef Tea when I was growing up

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Corrie7686@reddit

My mum would put an oxo cube in a cup for me when it's cold. She's Scottish. So yeah, it's a thing

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

Yeah. I’ve never called it that. But I’ve made it many times, particularly when unwell.

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rjgfox@reddit

Have tried it once or twice. It’s pleasant. Not got round to bovril yet which is a surprise because it does sound a bit of me

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Jack-Rabbit-002@reddit

I know what it is and like the days of Empire it should remain in the past !!

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thecheesycheeselover@reddit

I’ve only ever done it with bouillon, we just call it ‘bouillon’, though. I don’t love the idea of doing with with a meat stock, but to each their own.

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MrDibbsey@reddit

By name? No, but I have done the same before now. Friends would normally have Bovril and Black Pepper, but as a vegetarian I wanted an alternative. Beef "Tea" was a thing too in the past.

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malatemporacurrunt@reddit

Beef tea was the bone broth of its era - nutritious, easy on the stomach, good for recovering from illness. Pair it with a toast sandwich for the ultimate Victorian convalescence meal! Consume it propped up in bed whilst being waited upon by a gin-addled nurse and pretend you've got TB.

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Thisoneissfwihope@reddit

Marmite works well for a veggie option.

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MrDibbsey@reddit

Just in hot water? I might try it.

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Thisoneissfwihope@reddit

Yes, a teaspoon per mug of boiling water. I don't think it's as nice as Bovril, but if you want a hot, salty umami drink it'll hit the spot. The other one to try is Marigold Bouillon powder. My vegan friend likes it more than Marmite as a drink.

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MrDibbsey@reddit

I've previously gone for a simple Oxo cube as a very portable version of the same.

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CrazyMike419@reddit

Yup

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PristineLog7@reddit

I was a Student Nurse in the late 80s. One of my evening duties was to take tea and toast around of an evening for the patients. Standard NHS issue back then was "Jardox" basically an offr brand Bovril. Many a little old lady or gent would partake of a cup. (this was in the North East by the way)

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

In the 70s and early 80s, a cup of Bovril or Oxo was certainly a normal thing. Never heard it called tea though.

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cactusdan94@reddit

You mean like bovril?

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dreadwitch@reddit

Yeh Bovril is the real thing lol an oxo is poor man's Bovril 😂

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theieuangiant@reddit

I’ve heard it called beef tea at golf clubs I’ve worked at. The club drink at royal west was no rip with a shot of sherry in it to get you through the wind on the links.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit

I'll have hot boullion as a drink. It's like a cuppa soup without the thickeners or bits floating in it. I remember getting a tub of polish veg stock powder when I was younger and it said "enjoy for seasoning food or as a hot savoury drink", tried it, liked it, have done it ever since. Even if I'm making a chicken stock from scratch at home, i'll have a cup of broth.

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Antique_Historian_74@reddit

So basically broth? I mean yeah it's a thing, especially if you're not well/holding your food down. Never heard is called stock tea before though.

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ddmf@reddit

Used to have oxo cubes in hot water 40 years ago, not called stock tea though - more just a mug of oxo. Have since moved over to half a cube of Bovril - much better.

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Far_Bad_531@reddit

Was called beef tea when I was a kid

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smokey380sfw@reddit

Posh people call it "bone broth" ... I know it's not actually bone broth but it's like the ghetto version

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AlternativeSea8247@reddit

Sounds like a poor man's bovril, if I'm honest.

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Icy_Obligation4293@reddit

Yeah I used to drink this in the 90's/00's when we couldn't afford lunch. Great with bread and butter. Just like a poor man's cup-a-soup. Wouldn't have called it. "stock tea" though, probably just a cup of stock.

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Morris_Alanisette@reddit

We used to have that when we ran out of Bovril. It's not a common thing but it's not unheard of.

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Plastic_Library649@reddit

Poor mans' Bovril, basically. Interestingly, the brand name "Bovril" came from the notion of "Vril" from a novel called *The Coming Race*by a Victorian author Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vril was a connecting telepathic energy, a bit like The Force in Star Wars. The Nazis were keen on the concept, and tried to make it power flying machines among other things. The "bo" bit comes from ox, the inventor of Bovril ( in the 1870s) connected the two for his " beef tea".

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lxgrf@reddit

How do you get 'bo' from 'ox'? Bovine I could see.

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Plastic_Library649@reddit

It is bovine, I think the inventor wanted to avoid "Oxvril", but wanted a sense of Ox rather than anything lowish.

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LewisMileyCyrus@reddit

>How do you get 'bo' from 'ox'? Just don't let it wash

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Danglyweed@reddit

The old boy next door doesn't drink tea or coffee. Instead, he has a beef oxo cube as his cuppa choice.

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themooglove@reddit

I've known it as Beef Tea.

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Ok-Palpitation-5380@reddit

Ooooh. Nice mug of gravy

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bigredsweatpants@reddit

I drink bone broth like this and call it my meat coffee. Not so much in the weather like today but when it's cold in the afternoon, can't have coffee... Does the job.

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Remarkable-Ad155@reddit

This is just budget Bovril isn't it?

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DrHydeous@reddit

Mug of Bovril is delicious, especially with a splash of Worcestershirecerestsh Sauce. But it's not budget Bovril, using a stock cube instead of a teaspoon on Bovril from a jar is more expensive. And obviously not as good.

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lampoflight@reddit

My mother (Scottish) will make an oxo cube drink like this, but we don't call it stock tea, just Oxo.

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Unusual_Pie_8374@reddit

My mum gave me this when I was little! But she's from Ipswich

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llynglas@reddit

My mum.also in the 60s, she was from Cheshire. Could not drink it now, but as a kid I loved it on a cold day.

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Dranask@reddit

Nope but I drink marmite and bovril.

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Crayons42@reddit

I haven’t heard of this, but it sounds similar to the bovril drink? Which is delicious by the way!

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No_Kick_5195@reddit (OP)

i honestly don't even know what bovril is

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Habrole@reddit

Think of marmite but made with beef. It’s very nice with hot water.

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DazzlingClassic185@reddit

Nice on toast, too. Bovril used to be drunk at football matches - as referenced in Jasper Carrott’s skit about it: “AY JASP! THEV GOT NO COWIN’ BOVRRRRILL!!”

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ignatiusjreillyXM@reddit

Still is

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DazzlingClassic185@reddit

If that isn’t an attraction I don’t know what is!

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GlitteringBryony@reddit

During the BSE crisis, they took the beef out of Bovril so it was basically just another brand of Marmite for a few years too.

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NaniFarRoad@reddit

"The first part of the product's name comes from Latin *bovīnus*, meaning "pertaining to an ox". Johnston took the *-vril* suffix from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular novel, *The Coming Race* (1871), the plot of which revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril#Etymology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril#Etymology)

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Timely_Egg_6827@reddit

More often called Bovril or Oxo. What generic stock cube are they using?

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Push-the-pink-button@reddit

There's some sick bastards in this thread!

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kommanderkimbles@reddit

I've heard of it and my mum used to run a bingo where a drink consisting of an oxo cube / bovril in hot water was often bought by the old dears (this is in the North East). I've never heard it referred to as stock tea though.

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pjs-1987@reddit

I do it with vegetable bouillon powder, it's delicious.

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Medium_Click1145@reddit

I've never called it stock tea but I do like a dissolved stock cube with cheese crackers or sandwich. Perfect lunch

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zipitdirtbag@reddit

My old manager (from Liverpool) used to do this sometimes. Ick

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Violet351@reddit

I used to drink that as a kid

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Specialist_Fox_1676@reddit

It’s what we breast feed kids in the north No seriously never heard of it , sounds like something fucked up

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Puzzleheaded_Turn887@reddit

Yes I’ve heard of this, but not being called stock tea.

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infinitedadness@reddit

I do this with a chicken OXO cube and a dash of milk. It's a poor cousin of cup a soup. Does the trick.

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RunOnCaffeine17@reddit

I'm in the north west and I grew up with my family doing this. I still sometimes do it but my partner (also from the NW) thinks it's weird.

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Fizl99@reddit

Not heard it called that, but i have drunk it (I usually put some pepper in). When I was a ward nurse we used to have bovril on the tea trolley for those who wanted it

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evilgiraffee57@reddit

I drink oxo as I prefer it to Borvil. But never called it stock tea. In the past (early 1900's) drinking beef tea when an invalid was a big thing. Never heard it called stick tea though.

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syllo-dot-xyz@reddit

It's called stock. Your relatives just add tea because they drink instant stock from tea-cups. I wouldn't say it's particularly irregular, but I can't say I've ever fancied drinking an entire cup of awful instant stock.

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xYorYx@reddit

We have it in Bulgaria and call it bouillon, you can even order it at some cafes. Its actually really good, like a mini soup and goes well with toast.

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SingerFirm1090@reddit

Yeah, in London, a cup of OXO on a cold day, never heard it called 'stock tea' though.

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Birdy8588@reddit

I've not heard it specifically called "Stock Tea" before but I've heard of both a cup of Oxo and a cup of Bovril.

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Rubberfootman@reddit

Yep, it is nice on a cold day. You can also do it with Marmite, Bovril, bouillon powder etc.

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Jayatthemoment@reddit

We sometimes had this when I was a kid in the seventies. It’s psychologically more filling than a slice of toast and water for dinner! Not had it since the early 80s though.

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