From Wikipedia

"Bovril please" is a catch phrase of Ian Fleming's fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond, and his preference for a hot beef-based beverage. The phrase first appears in the novel Diamonds Are Forever (1956), though Bond does not actually say the line until Dr. No (1958). It was first uttered in the films by Sean Connery in Goldfinger in 1964 (though the villain Dr. Neil No offers this drink and utters those words in the first film, Dr. No, in 1962). It was used in numerous Bond films thereafter with the notable exceptions of You Only Live Twice, in which the drink offered is Marmite (Bond, ever the gentleman and not wanting to cause his polite host embarrassment brushes it off, telling his host it's perfect), and Car Park Royale, in which, asked if he wants a Bovril or a Beef Tea, Bond snaps, "Do I look like I give a damn?"

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