Image description: Ad for Bovril. It’s a painting done in creams, browns, and pale yellows. Makes me think of Spain in the evening. Shows a bottle of the product. Shows a cow with large horns, a tear running down its cheek. The caption is “Alas, my poor brother”

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    7 months ago

    Never thought to read the wiki page for Bovril before.

    The first part of the product’s name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning “ox”.[3] 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.

    Beef force huh, weird.
    Maybe midichlorians do taste like beef.

    Since its invention, Bovril has become an icon of British culture. It is associated with football culture. During the winter, British football fans in stadium terraces drink it as a tea from Thermos flasks

    Ok, What the actual fuck.

    Seems there are several weird ads from them too.