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Oxo cubes

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master brummie
Hi, did any one else have oxo cubes as a beef tea drink? I remember having it as a child tried it the other day and still liked it.
 
I love it especially in the winter, they do oxo as a paste in a tube now, tastes just the same as the cube.
 
Hi All,

I was rather like Alberta and drank it regularly. This thread made me realise I had not had an OXO drink for ages. I wondered why and the only explanation I can come up with is that nowadays when I want a warming drink I have Cup A Soup. I think I will try an OXO cube next time. I am sure that I will enjoy it

Old Boy
 
Hi, I haven't seen oxo in a tube here in NZ would be easier than trying to get the foil off with wet hands.
 
We still drink OXO or Bovril in the wintertime; warming the 'cockles' of our hearts.

As a youngster my chum and I would often get an OXO cube from a grocery store to eat on the way home. I think they were half a penny (old coinage) each.

Warmer days would see is in the Milk Bar having a milk shake. My favourite flavour was pineapple. You can still get the syrup flavourings from wholesalers.
 
I was down the Blues a few years back when they kept changing caterers and a young girl gave me Bovril with milk
 
Radiorails said:
We still drink OXO or Bovril in the wintertime; warming the 'cockles' of our hearts.

As a youngster my chum and I would often get an OXO cube from a grocery store to eat on the way home. I think they were half a penny (old coinage) each.

Warmer days would see is in the Milk Bar having a milk shake. My favourite flavour was pineapple. You can still get the syrup flavourings from wholesalers.
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It can be done but it looks painful..
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The thing i remember about oxo as a kid in the 40/50s is when money was short we would have a cup of oxo with dry bread it did fill a hole in your tummy
Keith
 
Seem to remember when on our School trip to Kingstanding baths having a cup of oxo at the end of the lesson, bought it yourself of course.
 
I watched the video by Brumgum but he made the mistake of consuming all of the OXO cube in one fell swoop, no wonder he grimaced. The art is to nibble at the cube; then the full savoury/salty effect can then be realized. I can only guess that OXO cubes taste the same today as they did sixty years ago. It is likely that they do not - so many food items have been altered over the years. Readers of the HP sauce thread will know what I am referring to.

However most people today have a very (dangerously so in many cases) sweet tooth so the tastes and likes of one generation are more than likely not to be those of a subsequent one.
 
HI DEK
I entirely agree with you . and to me oxo is still the tops for me and my family for making the gravvy for lunch and yes i am like you i do make a drink of it in a cup add a little pepper and dunk my bread it it i have done that since i was a kid and i will never change my habbitt i ve tried the rest but i have stuck with the best ; where i was born on lichfield rd 5/92 lichfield rd right next door to ansells brewery and the hp sauce factory the smell was an horrendous as we all have heard or experience it whether it be living local or actualy in the school play ground of upper thomas street school but we have always brought up with good old oxo
when i was a little kid born in cromwell terrace next to ansells w lived in the terrace next to mandys grand fathers next to the widdows pub ; and then there was a grocer shop where we took our rations bok to buy our foods stuff and it was a lady called mrs oxhill from the posh harborne area when she moved into that shop
her big side of the shop garden was bare and then one day in the early fifties
she had bought some huge privvett to put around her garden which came into cromwell terrace her garden gate was the first one you had to pass as you turned into cromell but any way she had asked all the familys with us all kids to help plant thise huge privvetts which she had brough from some where thay was matured bushes and she was transfereing them into this garden
there was about twelve of us doing this for her and we had to water them for a week at the end of the week she came to the shop and finaly moved in
and each and every one of us was all given a orinional oxo tin each and they was filled with conkers was we chuffed we all went barmy playing each other with the conkers and one or two of them tried to soak them in vinegar some was baking them . but also she gave us a small box of oxos for our mothers when thing was tight her name was mrs oxhill but we renamed her as mrs oxo and i have never forgotten that name mrs oxo whom gave us all a oxo tin of oxo ,s
as you say they have been around for donkeys years and i would be shocked if they ever disapeared rom the shelfs or ceased trading best wishes Astonian
 
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