After full day of football yesterday I was quite pleased to get home and have a nice glass of red....no idea where it came from apart from France! It went well with my late "tea" including a pudding, allowed since I had little time during the day for food.
I went from refereeing the Hepworth United U10s, watch the televised match on my TV, nipped down to Far Lane to watch the Hepworth Seniors and then made it to a 4pm rendezvous before the Huddersfield v Liverpool game at 5pm at the John Smith's. A full day. Not much food.
Next to me in the stadium was a delightful man who was tucking into some sweeties, which he offered to me (I politely refused) and he was also sipping Bovril, the traditional beverage of the football fan....OR IS IT? What about a dose of Benedictine swamped in 27 herbs and spices and Carabao?
Burnley FC bats well above its average in all fields and its liking for Benedictine is well known. Yes, you know, Burnley FC is the centre of Benedictine sales (in East Lancashire anyway). The video below explains things, but if you can't be bothered to watch it, then let's just say the Burnley FC is one of the largest sellers of Benedictine (anywhere).
https://www.jamieoliver.com/drinks-tube/benedictine-and-the-burnley-miners/
When the East Lancs Regiment, the 11th Battalion, was fighting in Fecamp, Normandy, France in the First World War, the band of brothers was known famously as the Accrington Pals. Men from local families joined up and generations of men from the area were lost on French battlefields and so footballers was also lost.
Benedictine with hot water was given to the Pals as a "restorative" known as "Bene 'N' Hot" and the lads got such a taste for it, it kept the cold out, so they took it back to the Burnley Miners Social Club (below) after the war. To this day the region is the biggest consumer of the drink outside France, handling over 1000 bottles a year. The club has invented a Bene Bomb (mixed with a Carabao energy drink!!), the rival to Jager! a modernised version.
30 bottles will be sold at Turf Moor on match day and the present owners, Bacardi, have a strong link with the club and were presented with a 1914 Replica Burnley FC shirt. Nice piece of HISTORY below...have a read and maybe a drink, got any Carabao?
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