Marmite
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Topic: Marmite
Posted By: Phil
Subject: Marmite
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 08:49
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I feel inspired to make this silly poll after watching my 2 year old devour another slice of toast with Marmite; so then love it or hate it? There's no "it's OK" option - it's got to be one or the other.
ps - does anyone outside the UK know what Marmite is?
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 08:52
| Love it...My mate..............Marmite!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:15
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Love it!
Vegemite's good too. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:38
Noooooooooooooo......don't like Vegemite.   ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:40
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what is that? ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 09:49
No.  |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:15
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I've never tried it, although I would like to someday. But I'm a little scared of it...
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Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:16
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^ why didnt u just explain it to us?? ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg">
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:28
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It's a word in french and I know what it means but it doesn't help me to understand this poll
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:35
| Marmite is a yeast extract spread, similar to Vegimite or Bovril (but nicer), dark brown, savoury, very salty. Usually spread thinly on toast or wholemeal (whole grain) bread. It's one of those things you either love or hate. Unless you've never tried it of course, in which case, well, you won't know what you've missed. |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 10:38
Then I just won't vote  If you're wondering, this word means Cooking pot in french.  -------------
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 12:34
| ^Ah! maybe explains the distinctive glass jar in which it comes. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 13:06
Surely Bovril is some kind of beef extract? Anyway, my sister-in-law once did me Marmite on toast for breakfast. She spread loads of it on really thickly, like jam, and then couldn't understand why I wouldn't eat it. (Perhaps I should say that I like Marmite, but you can't eat it like that!) |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 14:05
| I know the stuff, on cheese it's yummy !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 14:18
In English also. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 17:45
Anyhow looks like chopper,Snowy and me are true Marmite fans. Great stuff, nothing like (even though my lad's Mum is having kittens about his salt intake given the amount he stuffs away!)
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:49
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Well, I never knew that about Bovril (don't buy the stuff). Perhaps it was Foot and Mouth that did for it. So what do Birmingham City fans drink at football matches then? (Jasper Carrot related joke). |
Posted By: Wilcey
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:56
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Gotta love Marmite!!! It's GORGEOUS STUFF!!!
Marmite soldiers when you are feeling poorly, marmite toast for supper, chesse'n'marmite sarnies! You can geet these GREAT marmite biscuits now made by a company called "Fudges handmade biscuits" from Devon...........the biscuits are AMAZING, when my sister was working abroard a couple of years ago I used to send boxes of these out to her! yum yum yum yum yum!!! P-C |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:20
I hate it and always will - it's just so salty! -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:30
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I tried Marmite when I went to England as a kid. No thanks! It tasted as if it was made from stones. A cross between marble and granite.
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:44
 Yes Kiwis and Aussies have it and maybe Sth Africans. I hate the stuff, my Mum used to feed me that poison when I was a baby, until one day I realised I was eating sh*&. When I went to school girls used to have that crap in their sandwitches, from what I've seen it seems to be a largely feminine spread; my sisters love that detestable crap. Marmite is evil it is what satan spreads on his sandwitches, its so replusive and must be eradicated. Yes I hate Marmite!!!!!!------------- |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 07:50
| There was quite a clever advertising campaign about Marmite some while back, they realised people either loved or hated it and based the ads around that idea (e.g. lifeguard gives kiss of life, victim stands up and splutters as lifeguard has been eating Marmite...) |
Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 14:04
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I've never heard of this stuff before this poll. But from the imagery in my head I'm seeing as I've read some of the posts explaining it, I don't think I want to try it. I'm wondering- can it be worse than brussels sprouts? ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: June 12 2006 at 23:22
 It could be... but I love both brussel sprouts and marmite - not together though! If given a choice I would take brussel sprouts over marmite any time. BTW vegemite is much easier on the palate than marmite - imho!!------------- 
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 12:36
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Yes, Marmite is scrumcious, lovely with toast. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 12:54
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For the edification on non-UK members, a "marmite" is a baby marmot (see below), an inoffensive little mountain-climbing critter, and marmite (the "food") is a popular, traditional meat spread in the UK.
(It is made by grinding up boiled marmites, which are much more tender than adult marmots.)
 As with foxhunting, where drunken in-bred nobility terrorise and have their dogs rip to shreds that benighted island's largest native carnivore, there are those enlightened souls who are seeking to ban this lamentably popular "food," but the pro-marmite lobby is large, rich and powerful.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 13:19
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The facts about vegemite (which has been mentioned here) are even more disturbing:
Vegemite is a popular, traditional Australian meat spread, which is made from the ground-up, boiled flesh of baby vegetarians. (It supposedly has a markedly "nutty" flavour.)
Illegal since the Sydney olympics (it was feared that visiting, more "sensitive" non-Australians -- as with the East-Asian penchant for devouring dog meat -- might look askance at this "delicacy"), it is now mainly smuggled in from neighbouring New Guinea (many anthropologists are vegetarians).
  Caveat emptor -- think twice before you accept a taste of this "food."  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 14:11
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Love it!! ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 15:52
And then there is "dynamite" (also known as "dy-no-mite"), which is a popular American meat spread made from ground-up Jimmy Walkers....
 "Dy-No-Mite!"Yes, Ruth is stranger than Richard, my friends!
Pass the pate, SVP....  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |