Explain Marmite to me

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I don't get it.

Also explain the crisis of civilization that is Vegemite.

(filed under 'cuisine')

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Its boiled up old yeast. A byproduct of the brewing industry. Very good on buttered toast, but i think bovril (beef stock) or gentleman's relish (anchovy paste) have the edge as far as salty spreads go.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed, you're a man of exquisite opinion. Bovril will be the toast-coverer of choice long after the last cracked pot of marmite has sunk beneath the ever-burgeoning waste-dumps of humanity.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

it's disgusting, whatever it's made of.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Marmite > Vegemite is taste per cubic centimetre ratio. Hence Vegemite for wimps. However Vegemite speads slightly easier, a cold pot of marmite being not too far from tarmacadam on the speadability with knife front.

Bovril and gentlemans relish whilst fine in themselves are a whole different kettle of beef and fish to the brewing by-product which is Marmite. And if you whip marmite it turns white.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

marmite is good on toast, but rubbish on anything else

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 2 December 2002 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

they are all disgusting and inedible substances, and suzy and i have just declared the house a marmite free zone.

for fucks sake, i'd rather just have beer, thank you.

― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmm savoury spreads. I am a promiscuous foodie and like all of these, esp. No loyalty, that's me. Pete, why oh why would you want to whip Marmite? Trying to incorporate it into meringues? Yikes.

Gentlemen's Relish: they were stocking it in Safeways in their 'posh' Xmas foods section a couple of weeks ago, but now it's nowhere to be found. Aiee! Will I have to make a trip to Fortnum & Mason?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

esp. what, you ask? Not telling.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

all us yanks herein think this marmite/vegemite/gentleman's relish is shit. this must be the ultimate dividing line between us and them.

but what is the american marmite (the thing that we yanks love and brits think is inedibly disgusting)?

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You are subconsciously revealing your fundamental inability to commit to a single salty snack Liz. Vairy eenteresting.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that Vegemite (yuck) doesn't taste that much like Marmite (yum yum)?

At the moment I am using a special promotional jar of Marmite w/ Zippy from Rainbow on the front label. It's a keeper!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

but what is the american marmite

beef jerky?
sweet potatoes + marshmallows?
cheez whiz?

― minna (minna), Monday, 2 December 2002 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

BEEF JERKY!

*Madchen scurries away to the food cravings thread*

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

sweet potatoes + marshmallows?

together? that's disgusting, too. and it's news to me that this concotion is something yanks love.

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

this gentleman's relish sounds amazing!! i can't believe i've never heard of it. is it readily available (eg in supermarkets)?

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, and marmite on toast needs no explanation. just eat it and you will understand.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 2 December 2002 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone explain beef jerky to me, then? i've been wanting to know for many, many years. and 'turkey jerky' always makes me laugh. but what is it?

it always makes me think of eddie murphy in trading places on the train as the african student. "you want some beef jerky?"
hurhur.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Hershey bars are the american marmite. How anyone could call that inedible cardboard chocolate I don't know. Sweet potatoes and marshmallows sounds pretty bad though.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ed, you are SO WRONG. sweet potatoes and marshmallows = FOOD OF THE GODS. only thing me and my veggie housemate could eat at her family's thanksgiving gatherings. mmm, that and the pumpkin pie. mmmmm. why don't you ever go on baking sprees that involve the making of PIE, instead of nasty xmas cakee?

(I cannot believe that ed is sitting across the living room from me and we are talking to each other on ilx. tooooo sad.)

― kate, Monday, 2 December 2002 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

AHEM. marmite = food of the godZ. vegemite = unholy and unworthy imitator. root vegetables + marshmallows = WRONG. i have spoken.

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I have promised you non-fruit based cakes. Almond polenta cake is coming soon and if your very lucky you'll get chocolate marscapone tart. Find me a pumpkin pie recipe and you may get lucky but I want to buy a can of that lurid key lime pie mix suzy and I found in Harvey Nichols Food Hall (mwah dahling).

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

(all the recipes i have seen for pumpkin pie/bread feature TINNED PUMPKIN!?! i have never to my knowledge seen this in the UK! can you get it anywhere suzy and ed i am looking at YOU to supply me with the answer!)

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

come on, i've been a good boy this year, i promise. what's beef jerky?

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

YOu can get pureed pumpkin in a jar from Flaneur (Farringdon St), Villandry (Gt. Portland St), the aforementioned Harvey nichols food hall and many whole food shops (Beanies, Barber Rd, Sheffield for example)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

butter on toast, no icky "paste"

― ron (ron), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Beef jerky is like dog chews for people.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I just had 2 slices marmite on toast as a light lunch and it was heavenly. It's such a winter comfort food. Vegemite is horrible and whoever said it's nothing like Marmite is OTM. Bovril I know only as a drink. Bogus fish-egg caviar, taramasalata and pate are my other favourite toast coverings.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

thangyou ed! i now call upon Sarah to make a Flaneur excursion for tinned pumkin, Seasoned Pioneer spice mixes and seabrooks crisps!

― katie (katie), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Beef jerky is like dog chews for people.

thanks! you brightened my day. i'm not even joking. i smiled and everything!

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

When I lived in Melbourne a few years ago, there was some Vegemite promotion thing going on in the city centre one day. They invited people to do a blindfolded taste test, to see if anyone could tell the difference between Marmite and Vegemite. I got them right every time - it's easy. Vegemite is okay in the absence of any other yeast-based spreads, but it simply doesn't have the 'shove-off-the-cliff' that Marmite does.

― C J (C J), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, another enticingly salty snack is smashed black olives - sold for 75 of yr English pence for a masseev jar at the Turkish grocery shoppe just down from Tesco's on Stroud Green Road. Phwoargh. Grebt on 'rough' oatcakes.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 2 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the american marmite

Scrapple (except I've never met anyone of any nationality who enjoys it)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Scrapple (except I've never met anyone of any nationality who enjoys it)

Pennsylvanians like it!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

that was a serious answer, btw -- unless either Jess, Maura, Rockist Scientist or g say it isn't so!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The Swedish marmite is Djungel Vrål liquorice. It's coated in potassium chloride - fantastic stuff.

― Madchen (Madchen), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I just like the idea Pennsylvania is a sovereign country.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dr vick is half dutch and coming round to watch buffy on video so i shall quiz her on all the above and also the dutch marmite

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ask her also about the marmite mines in Cornwall

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the only times i ever saw ppl eating scrapple was when making visitors try it. i'm sure ppl enjoy it but i never met any of 'em. gawd, that stuff is horrible.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey you don't need to go all the way to Farringdon for tinned pumpkin! I have a tin myself which I got from Sainsburys on Victoria Street which isn't exactly huge so try yr Ilford Sains Ktee, you may be in luck!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Farringdon is only just down the road for me and going to Flaneur is always a pleasure.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ps geeta perfectly well knows the best way to serve and consume marmite, so don't let her fule u

gentleman's relish is nice on ladies' fingers arf

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Katie, I don't know about the seabrooks crisps. My mate and colleague dave raves about them, and a particular service station near Preston where you can get all possible flavours. I can't get wild about them, their salt and vinegar is not vinegary enough and they are reconstituted potatoes rather than cut potatoes. I'm a Jonathan Crisp's myself but there's no accounting for taste. Don't miss out on Flaneur it is a treasure trove.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

eek, why ruin perfectly good toast by spreading marmite on it? is there something i'm missing? i've tried marmite on toast and even when spread v. v. thin it's so horrifyingly salty i can't stand it. do you mix it with something? it's so creepy!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ps markite is pregnant again don't let him fule u

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Pennsylvanians like it!

A former coworker, who was from Pennsylvania, hated scrapple. But she was a vegetarian.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Andrew L re Vegemite - not that similar, and a thousandth as lovely.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 December 2002 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my college housemates liked scrapple. I'm sure you can guess what state he was from.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

what's scrapple? i've only ever heard the word as in the song title 'Scrapple from the Apple'

― michael (michael), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a game in which you make words from tiles randomly drawn. I'm a pit confused as to its connection with marmite.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

[groan]

― michael (michael), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm half Pennsylvanian, BTW.

La Casa de Scrapple

It's kind of like headcheese.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my god. A recipe for homemade scrapple. Oh my god.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

thread revival!!

my australian pal made me eat toast spread with vegemite, it was awful but did not have as much of an awful intense flavor as marmite! he claims that brits are actually more haRdCoRe than australians becuz they eat marmite, and do so deliberately

opinions please!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 17 January 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

la la la

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

haf just reminded dr vick re non-delivery of her report on the dutch marmite btw

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Marmite = Satan's spunk

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

zzz

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

is that good or bad dave b?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

ps my gentleman's relish joke upthread is hilarious

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

mousetraps are better than toad-in-the-hole => vegemite is the winner!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh now you tell me it was a joke. My okra and anchovy dip I made ended a dinner party I threw at the nibbles stage. People said they felt ill after dipping their crackers into my very salty, slimy dip.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark - Very Bad Thing.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Again I just had marmite on toast. I love the way it says "contains approximately 31 servings" on the jar.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Lids became plastic in 1984

)-:

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

N.? why are you standing on your head? Or are you in Australia?

― chris (chris), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I was sure that was the 'right' way around. I give up. I always have trouble knowing which way around to stamp the ringbinder holes in landscape documents too. Why is this obvious to all except me?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe you are alignment dyslexic?

― chris (chris), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no right way with landscape stuff in ringbinders. Its personal preference though I suppose one ought to be consistent throughout the folder.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

You put the holes in at the top. But I'm not sure why.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

vick says: " the Dutch do NOT have marmite or anything like it. They like sweet
stuff on bread (or cheese or horsemeat). You can buy English marmite, but my
brother says most dutch people would think it is for making soup stock.
There is something that looks exactly like marmite made of sweet and highly
concentrated apple called 'appelstroop'. Does this help your spooky research?"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

vick is otm!

appelstroop r00lz

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i haf made peace with it at last

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

For an interesting variation on marmite on toast try mixing with peanut butter (preferably Whole Earth chunky or the Sainsburys whole nut one not Sunpat smooth). Basically peanut butter/butter or margarine with a LITTLE Marmite so the Marmite doesn't overpower the other flavours.

― David (David), Friday, 17 January 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

pear and apple spread is the marmite of the fruit spread world and is god

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

David is OTM with the peanut butter thing. I thought that was just something I did!

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 18 January 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

mrs carsmile does this also. i prefer nutella-type products with my peanut butter though, or preferably sunpat swirly which has both in the same jar, numnum...

also has pete seen that thing about scrapple, it looks right up his alley :) mmmmm, offal

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 18 January 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s to dr vick: one last key question: does any dutch foodstuff occupy marmite's iconic position, though?

eg: gloopy in texture, ingredient-mysterious, divides punters into ABOLUTELY FANATICALLY PRO or CON with no in-between and simply baffles outlanders?

dr vick to mark s:
There are some odd things - like 'erte soep' pea soup so thick you could slice it which everyone has when it's frosty.

And wonderful things: like the milkman brings 'vla' (custard) and yoghurt as well as milk in big glass bottles

There is also 'cocos brot' - layers of thin coconut in lurid pink and white, which you lay on toast like bedsheets. My friends have exclaimed at that...

Then of course you have paling (eels) eaten from vans on the beach, where you hold them up by the end (one hesitates to us the word 'tail' for the end since the whole thing is either a nose or a tail) and you strip it of flesh with your teeth. Outsiders find that pretty gross.

But if Holland is divided, I think it's into those softies/foreigners who eat jonge goude (young gouda cheese) and zachte drop (sweet liquorice) and indigenous hard-liners who eat oude goude (which takes the roof of your mouth off in shards) and zoude drop (made entirely with salt). Proper drop baffles the non-dutch, as it is a sweet which so isn't.

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Marmite is for the uncool.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to live in the world of dr vick.

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm offal. And Eeels - I'm off toot sweet to Holland.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

From now on when someone says their life is tough I am going to say "OUDE GOUDE!"

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

marmite amirite?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Most people who don't like Vegemite don't eat it the right way! You NEVAR spread it thick. Toast, with lots of melty butter and then the finest, thinnest shmear of Vegemite. Hangover food of the GHODS. Nummy b vitamins.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Trayce you are a f***ing genius...Are there no other Australians on this damn bored...WHERE IS THE VEGEMITE LOVE??
You people make me sick. Marmite. Pfft.

― Very Bored (Bored), Monday, 25 September 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Or board...You still make me sick

― Very Bored (Bored), Monday, 25 September 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

I had a slice of buttered wholegrain toast for breakfast this morning, THICKLY SPREAD with a HUGE DOLLOP of marmite. God, it was lovely.

― C J (C J), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I will rep for the 'trayce method'.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

>> Most people who don't like Vegemite don't eat it the right way! You NEVAR spread it thick.

I'm not convinced. We KNOW not to spread it thick, cos of eating marmite, innit. It still tastes nasty.

I'm banned from eating marmite at home :( Stupid Americans :P

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

nasty? blasphemy. the trayce method is gold.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 25 September 2006 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

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― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 5 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

(nobody at the ad agency liked Marmite Squeezy, so they made this, I guess)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 5 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMMFGWTF get outta my head -- we were just discussing marmite @ work today!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

That Squeezy ad series picked all hatable things: not very persuasive. I have no idea where I'd even find vegemite/marmite in my neck of the woods! I am still looking for a place that sells curry paste.:(

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

What I mean is, marmite & vegemite are mythical things like durians & lutefisk that are heard about in bold,polarizing legends but never actually witnessed. I have no idea how I could ever try these things w/out the aid of plane tickets. That said, I just moved from a town with the world's largest annual rocky mountain oyser feed.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

you can buy marmite (and bovil) on amazon, for real! --> marmite and bovril.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love you Amazon, July 30, 2006
Reviewer: Susan J. Deaton (Mississippi USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
I just came back from England, visiting my family, and bought English Mustard a Marmite back with me.
NOW, Amazon can get it for me. I love you Amazon.
Please can you get more British food, then I will never shop anywhere else online for my GOOD old British stuff.
Keep up the good work.

!!!!!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

actually the marmite cinema/tv ad is hysterical: man with arm in plaster tries to get the last out of a glass jar of marmite using left arm, fails miserably, goes in a rage, accidentally smashes jar on floor, has a moment where he realises he could scoop up the marmite that has spilled onto the lino, leans toward floor with knife in hand then gets whacked on the head when his wife opens the kitchen door. for some reason her neck is in one of those big collars: that's the funny.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh damn i runined the end cos i couldn't find the ad online but here it is:

http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/creative/ad/article/25217/marmite-when-love-turns-hate-ddb-london/

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 5 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/images/marmite.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 6 October 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Trayce has nailed it - this misunderstanding usually lies behind the misguided reasoning of Marmite/Vegemite haterization.

Special tip: As many Australian Jews will know, Vegemite plus matzot is the greatest partnership in Jewish history since, erm, David and Solomon.

― rattusnorvegicus (ratty!!), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

vegemite is awesome. trayce/ratty otm. although i have it a bit thicker than most.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

trayce otm, and OMG, SQUEEZY??!!!?!?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

I had some vegemite for breakfast this morning after a long time without, it was quite good, although I broke my no butter rule for it. Vegemite on dry toast is a bit tough.

― I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in the city hall... (papa november), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Roxy, reppin the rare US love for the Veg! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 6 October 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

My jar of vegemite has a recipe on it for Shepherd's Pie with vegemite. I wonder if anyone has ever made this.

― Revivalist (Revivalist), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

I can see that working - you'd just add it into the meat gravy, same as you might worcestreshire sauce or something.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm about to run out of marmite and i can't bring myself to buy a squeezy bottle of it. it's just WRONG. but i must force myself to accept this brave new world, i suppose.

oh, and i must remember to get milk. and bog roll.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

Upload your squeezy artwork!

http://www.marmart.co.uk/gallery_intro.php

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 6 October 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

SHIT. i got milk and bog roll and forgot fucking marmite.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 6 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

No no, you're not supposed to f... (*groan*)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Marmite is the growing up spread you never grow out of.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

i drink marmite. everyone should try it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I like drinking Marmite but prefer drinking Bovril. I generally just drink Marmite to get rid of the last traces of Marcrud from the bottom of the jar before it goes in the recycling.

I have never subscribed to this "you either love it or you hate it" nonsense. It led to an innovative and unusual marketing campaign, but to my mind it's all about the marmite:butter ratio on yr slice of bread. If you get a marbled effect then you've got it right. However, if the slice is so thick with Marmite that it resembles an oil-slick - bleurgh!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 7 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

what charlie said.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Vegemite, as Trayce rightly put it, is not only amazing spread thin, but cures 96% of hangovers. The toast has to be hot, the butter at least semi-thick, and it's best with tea (rather than coffee).

It's also great for gravy: just add vegemite, pepper and flour to your drippings, whisk it up good, and it's done.

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 7 October 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

As a student I'm currently buying the "home brand" of a lot of products, but for some things I just have to buy the original out of complacency, ie, HP Sauce, Coca Cola or Heinz Baked Beans... and Marmite of course (most stores' "yeast spread" is just vile)

Marmite is just fantastic. Not just on toast but on jacket potatoes, crudites, kebabs etc. I heard that it's the best thing to give a child to encourage taste bud development... my parents certainly did... I used to like Marmite and CRESS sandwiches! I have better way to take it these days fortunately.

― JTS (JTS), Sunday, 8 October 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

NZer here who loves vegemite and disdains the marmite.
What is promite though? I mean, I've had it, but is it Australian?

One of the three or so packed lunches my mum made for me when I was little was vegemite + walnut sandwiches.

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

but to my mind it's all about the marmite:butter ratio on yr slice of bread

I disagree - if i use a knife with even a tiny molecule of marmite on it to butter bread then I will taste it and start to vom and go "bleargh!"

― Mark Co (Markco), Monday, 9 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Vegemite has just been banned from the US because it contains folate and only certain products are allowed to have added folate!

This will probably only affect Australian expatriates and tourists, but still it seems rather silly. There is even a website petition already: www.savevegemite.com.

Besides, Vegemite is owned and made by Kraft, which is an American company. Poor little lonely jar of saltiness :-(

― salexandra (salexander), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Marmite sounds an awful lot like dark miso, if miso were gooey instead of cakey.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

Vegemite. Total classic.

― Drooone, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

Suddenly 'getting' foodstuffs that previously were at best confusing, or at worst disgusting to your naive palate is one of the great rites of passage: Marmite, olives, anchovies, licorice, Guinness, mushy peas, salt fish, oysters etc. There are still loads of flavours that I haven't yet 'got', but I'm excited in the certain knowledge that I will, one day.

The most intense conversions I've had always happen on a comedown with a loved one - esp. Marmite, which I used to get angry about, but now just go all melty at the thought of.

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

i love vegemite but would only eat marmite in an extreme yeast extract emergency deficit situation.

― estela, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

If you want a challenge, Huey, go East. There's so much profoundly disgusting food in China/Japan that it boggles the mind of any round-eye. I have a 1/2 eaten jar of salty pickled plum stuff on my desk that I can't bring myself to finish. It sits right next to the jar of "yeast candy", which by all appearances is just a cruel trick to play on M-&-M lovers. (They're M-&-M-alikes: Hard candy shells that enclose unsweetened dry yeast nuggets.)

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose I should have said, "go north".

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder if the little dutch girl's almond-filled speculas are as tasty as they sound.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:07 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, salty pickled plums... *shudders*

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

That Guinness Marmite weren't up to much, was it? Just like Marmite but without so much of the tang.

― NickB, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Marmite and rocket sandwiches with granary bread are so damn good.

― NickB, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

I had marmite for breakfast because of this thread, but the only bread we had in the house had feta and sundried tomatoes in it (I know, luxury Marie-Antoinette-style problem.) I thought it would taste odd, but the marmite craving was too strong by then, but it was unexpectedly lovely.

― Anna, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

Marmite with lots and lots of Flora (so it all mixes together in a marbley brown gloop) is really good on Ryvita. Especially the ones that come in green packets.

― Hello Sunshine, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer my marmite with fauna, to be honest. In particular, I like marmot on my marmite.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Marmite on cheese on toast - yum. I should be cheap rubbery cheddar ideally.

― chap, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

WHERE DO I GET THIS

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3221/guinnessmarmitefe1.jpg

― roxymuzak, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

It was a limited edition for St Patrick's Day this year. As far as I know it was only made for a short time.
But I've never seen these:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Marmite_Sausages_label.png/180px-Marmite_Sausages_label.png

...pork sausages with Marmite!

― snoball, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago)

MMMMMMMM!

― roxymuzak, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

Do they sell the Cheese and Marmite panini in Starbucks outside the UK?

http://starbucks.co.uk/en-GB/_Food/Hot+Panini.htm

If you hate it, you will LOVE IT !
If you hate it, you will LOVE IT !
If you hate it, you will LOVE IT !

― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

I love Marmite. Pork sausages w/ Marmite is brilliant. The only place that I see Marmite anything is in the international aisle of the grocery store next door to me, which carries little jars of Marmite. I will probably die never having eaten a pork sausage with Marmite or a Marmite and cheese panini from Starbucks.

― Jenny, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

Cheese and marmite panini = grilled cheese sandwich with some marmite and on slightly fancier bread. You can make it yourself. It is very good.

― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

Can and will!

― Jenny, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

What kind of cheese do you recommend?

― Jenny, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

Strong cheddar does it for me and I think that's what they use at Starbucks, but that + Marmite is a pretty powerful sandwich. Definitely a cheddar-type cheese. American processed cheese would probably be pretty repulsive.

― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

Thank you! There is abundant strong cheddar to be had at my local markets. I am so going to have this for lunch tomorrow.

― Jenny, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MMH0ND6XL._SS500_.jpg

― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

xpost, rad! enjoy!

― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

― snoball, Saturday, 14 February 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

spray on cheese? really?
http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/cheese/cheese.html
oh dear, as Mr. Fry might say...

― snoball, Saturday, 14 February 2009 00:27 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

If it's good enough for Him...

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.brandrepublic.com/news/1031537/Marmite-cooks-Peculiar-chocolate-bar

So, so disgusting looking.

― Matt DC, Monday, 4 October 2010 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

strange, looks like chocolate to me

i'm kind of ambivalent about marmite tbh.

― ledge, Monday, 4 October 2010 15:28 (fifteen years ago)

Does marmite/vegemite ever expire? I know there is an expiry date, but it seems like it tastes the same.

― Yerac, Monday, 4 October 2010 15:42 (fifteen years ago)

I have to get a bar of that, just as long as it's real Marmite, not that terrible stuff Sainsbury's put in their Marmite and cheese sandwiches.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, 4 October 2010 16:23 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Its umami - its garum! ots good!

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:32 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.umamiinfo.com/2011/03/the-new-role-of-glutamate.php

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

six months pass...

my fam loves marmite and i am no exception. i tend to like things that taste strong/bad to other people. i think im the opposite of a "super taster" - sometimes i feel like i can barely taste things unless the flavor is really ramped up. might be because i have terrible allergies?

anyway my sister created the marmite subreddit. lol

― (♥___♥) (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago)

My mum gave me a 'cooking with marmite' cookbook years back and since then has given me tons of marmite merch (teapot, these cool pop-art style picnic plates etc). It's good but it has now REACHED THE POINT where any more would make me look like a crazy lady

― kinder, Sunday, 21 October 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago)

Bovril or GTFO.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 21 October 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago)

I love marmite but only with lots of butter on toasted bread, in cooking it just seems to add too much saltiness before you reach the point of adding satisfying savouriness as you would with soy sauce or meat juices

― Vasco da Gama, Monday, 22 October 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago)

Fun fact: the Swiss have a version of Marmite, called Cenovis.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 22 October 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago)

http://www.spurgeon.org/%7Ephil/images/marmite.jpg

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 22 October 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago)

Couple of months back I became strangely addicted to the stuff. Top tip: roast potatoes dipped in a little marmite - munch that sucker!

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 22 October 2012 07:40 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

― Vasco da Gama, Monday, October 22, 2012 12:04 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Disagree. marmite is the secret ingredient in my chili recipe.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 22:34 (twelve years ago)

that sounds like a good idea

― silly word combination (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:00 (twelve years ago)

often use it in chili or to add a bit of tang to bolognese, works just fine

― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:03 (twelve years ago)

it good

― purp (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 03:31 (twelve years ago)

Marmite is the best! But I've run out :-(

― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:48 (twelve years ago)

I was bought a marmite cookbook for Xmas, but all the recipes seem to be are 'make/cook something then eat it with toast and marmite'

― pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 March 2013 11:50 (twelve years ago)

nine months pass...

gonna have some marmite on toast brb

― ian, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:41 (eleven years ago)

timely - just opened the marmite chocolate from Christmas (leaving it til all the good stuff was gone, obv).
It is... not great.

― kinder, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:29 (eleven years ago)

When I had some I felt that the Marmite taste wasn't strong enough, and the chocolate was dark enough or high quality enough. It was like a milk chocolate Hershey's bar that someone had waved near an open jar of Marmite.

― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:47 (eleven years ago)

I really like Marmite, but this is too far...
http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/image-pool/scale/618/618/05de98c52c150619e3c479d6beb012dfb2b877d7.jpg

― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:48 (eleven years ago)

I meant the chocolate wasn't dark enough or high quality enough.

― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 22:50 (eleven years ago)

the only acceptable pairing of marmite and chocolate is: hot buttery marmite toast soldiers dipped in to a cup of milo.

― just1n3, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 01:59 (eleven years ago)

barf

― kinder, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:01 (eleven years ago)

marmite + supermarket grocery shelf

perfect pairing imo

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:06 (eleven years ago)

marmite + ~~supermarket grocery~~ my kitchen cupboard shelf

^^^ fixed

― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:08 (eleven years ago)

I eat homemade veggie soup nearly every day, and Marmite is easily the best way to pump up the umani of vegetable stock. Not much is required: 1 tbsp / 3 L will do, but I still go through a pound jar of the stuff every 6 months or so.

Vegemite works too, but requires more. Stateside, they're equally expensive at the international shop.

― Disco Ebionite (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:36 (eleven years ago)

Cannot believe I never tried Marmite with pasta when I was a student. Ran out of pesto in the week and used it as a substitute with vegetables and cheese and it's really good.

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:41 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Marmite, more popular than the Tories and UKIP...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-named-uks-most-hated-brand-followed-by-the-tories-and-marmite-10049886.html

― 0xFE Shades of Grey (snoball), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 21:12 (ten years ago)

five years pass...

Marmite humous is amazing and should be tried by everyone.

― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 15:50 (five years ago)

added to my next tesco delivery. just added a generous dollop of marmite to the beef stock for a quickie pressure cooker stew.

― calzino, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 16:08 (five years ago)

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