User talk:2A00:23C4:1132:7B00:1C47:14CD:51B2:3FE1

If someone with access to the OED Online would care to check the noun 2 & adj entry for Marmite, you will find that the earliest references they have to the “love-hate” sense of the word are from 1994-95. Therefore the statement in the Marketing section of this article, “Marmite began a "Love it or Hate it" campaign during October 1996, and this resulted in the inventing of the phrase "Marmite effect" or "Marmite reaction" for anything which provoked controversy.” is entirely incorrect. Marmite obviously picked up on the existing usage & based their campaign on it. It may have popularised it, but certainly didn't create it. The section needs amending.

Regards,

2A00:23C4:1132:7B00:1C47:14CD:51B2:3FE1 (talk) 10:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC) Rædwulf

Hmmm... OK, so my "talk page" is attached to my current IP address, and not the actual article I'm talking about. That... Wasn't obvious! :) My previous comment was obviously in reference to your Marmite article. This is about your Bovril article.

The first para of the History section of your Bovril article is seriously at odds with your article on the inventor, John Lawson Johnston. "In 1870, in the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III ordered one million cans of beef to feed his troops. The task of providing this went to John Lawson Johnston, a Scotsman living in Canada." But your Johnston article quite clearly states that emigrated only in 1871, almost certainly after the F-P War had ended (Jan 1871), and wasn't given a contract by the French until 1874, by which time Napoleon III was not only dethroned, but dead!

I suggest the first para of the Bovril History needs a serious re-write to bring it in line with the facts you give for Johnston (because, given the sources, I presume they are correct).

Regards,

2A00:23C4:1132:7B00:1C47:14CD:51B2:3FE1 (talk) 11:24, 26 October 2021 (UTC) Raedwulf