CHOOSE WISELY: EURO-NOIZE SANDWICH SPREADS OF THE GODZ SMACKDOWN

what about marmite

Hmm... Marmite tastes like it might actually be healthy for you. I was thinking of the teeth rottingly sweet stuff.

Hmm... Marmite tastes like it might actually be healthy for you something spewed forth from the devil's ass. I was thinking of the teeth rottingly sweet stuff.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:54 PM (53 seconds ago) Bookmark

I don't mind Marmite at all, there are far more hideous foods out there!

I should like it - I love salty savory things but I just can't. It tastes like pure evil in spreadable form to me.

Nutella is great though.

I have no idea what the other thing is.

It's a Belgian sandwich spread that is made from a paste of crushed (?) butter cookies.

woah

I think I need that in my life.

oh man, so this bodega down the block had jars of speculoos and we were so excited, but then the guy who imported it for them apparently went out of business? so no more speculoos. but I am voting speculoos.

I loathe nutella but it's not particularly unhealthy. It's perfect for what it's advertzied as - a breakfast spread

trying to think of a SpecuLOOS aka the _______driver joke

voted nutella

WHAT happens when you take a classic cookie, give it the reality-TV treatment and market the result worldwide?

When Belgians did that, the results included a sugary, faintly cinnamon-flavored paste, two lawsuits and a debate over who should own the rights to a product tied to the traditions of rural Flanders.

The conflict began more than three years ago when a woman won a television contest for inventions with a spread made from speculoos, a caramelized cookie also known as biscoff or, thanks to its ubiquity on Delta Air Lines flights, the airline cookie.

One Belgian speculoos producer, Lotus Bakeries, went into business with the winner, but when two other competing companies produced their own spreads, Lotus sued, claiming it had obtained a patent that gave it the exclusive right to sell the paste. Last month a court in Ghent nullified the patent in a case in which one of the competitors argued that food could not be patented.

Lotus may yet appeal, but for now, it and the two competitors have been selling millions of pots of the sweet spread in Belgium, the Netherlands and France

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/dining/16cookies.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=speculoos&st=cse

Lotus is preparing to introduce the spread to the United States, where it will be marketed as a nut-free alternative to peanut butter. One of its smaller rivals, Biscuiterie Willems, says it also wants to take its version across the Atlantic, and is toying with the trade name “the airline cookie spread.”

I can totally see it becoming big in america

"do you like peanut butter but wish it were less healthy? and tasted like cookies?"

"the airline cookie spread": is not a good way to market a product imo

WAIT

A SPREAD MADE OUT OF THOSE AWESOME AIRPLANE COOOKIES??????????????

HOLY SHIT

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i like how a spread made out of cookies is regarded as an alternative to peanut butter

a "healthy" alternative!

even nutella!

hey if you're allergic to milk, try gatorade instead!

Hey you can buy essence of that stuff, too!

http://www.bienmanger.com/2F4960_Speculoos_Spice_Biscuit_Flavouring.html

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