BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite

Subject: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: harlowpoet
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:25 AM

I was reading in the paper yesterday, that the UK's collective worth equates to 1.25 trillion large jars of marmite.

Don't mind it myself, but that's an awful lot of the black stuff to be getting on with. What does anyone else think on this one?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:43 AM

I wonder what Oz is worth - our national black yeasty stuff is Vegemite (saltier than Marmite) so we wouldn't count using your black yeasty stuff. I wonder what the US of A would use?

How much is a jar of Vegemite, what is our GDP - I'll ponder upon it & get back to you.

I've heard of an international price index using cost of Big Macs, maybe we can start something similar here.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 05:44 AM

Does that include all the jars of Marmite on shelves in peoples homes already? Is that a UK or US trillion? How are we measuring collective worth? Is it anything like a Wigglesworth?

C'mon, harlow poet! Don't give us scraps of information and then leave us in the lurch. We need facts! We need information! We need our heads testing...

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 06:48 AM

If I was in charge I'd sell.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: artbrooks
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 07:43 AM

1.25 trillion jar of Marmite. eh? Surely the UK has some intrinsic value?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,Sttaw Legend
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 08:01 AM

Where is all the bread coming from ?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 09:12 AM

Where are all the *jars* coming from?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 10:07 AM

From The Plain of Jars in Korea!

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 12:07 PM

I am placing a call to Roger over at the Neil Young Center to add a whole section -- to be known as the Marmite Wing -- for you lot.

A

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Peace
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 08:19 PM

This looks like a job for the Marminator.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 09:20 PM

I thought the Plain of Jars was in Laos...or Cambodia. Somewhere around there anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,Albert McSwiggins, reinstated gardener
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:20 AM

If those stupid gits in WWII 'ad 'ad the sense to drop even a few million jars of marmite on old Adolf, instead of using conventional bombs, we'd 'ave won the bleedin' war in '43 not '45, and we wouldn't 'ave even needed the Yanks to do it.

Albert McSwiggins

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 01:26 AM

Plain of Jars was mentioned during the Korean War, wasn't it? Or am I getting even more senile now. You do KNOW why it was called the Plain of Jars, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 01:30 AM

Because 'Fancy of Jars' sounds dumb.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: harlowpoet
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 04:41 AM

I started this as a serious thread, and thought it would be treated as such. It was the very yeast I expected

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 06:28 AM

harlowpoet

I know extractly how you feel..

but what should it gain a man if he inherits 1.25 trillion jars of marmite, yet loses his own toast?

fred

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:57 AM

According to the Guardian, the total is £4,983 billion, more than half of which is the value of people's homes. The total includes personal, commercial and public assets such as vehicles and machiney, financial assets and intangibles such as the value of patents. I'm not quite sure which category Marmite comes in - the article quotes a spokesman for the British Tourist Authority saying:

"We've also got fantastic towns and cities. London is renowned as a fashion capital, with some of the world's leading designers, and a lot of people come here for shopping, because of brand names such as Selfridges and even Marmite."

Instead of the Marmite we could get 2.516 billion pints of bitter (at £1.98 a pint) or 14.655 billion 4-finger Kit Kat bars at 34p each.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 09:09 AM

It's a sad reflection that we (or rather our gvt) put a monetary value on our country rather than the cultural, emotional,historical etc value the people would put on it. Imagine:- "what do you love about Britain?" " oh it's worth umption trillion quid". Rather than "the lake district, Kentish pubs, Edinburgh castle etc" - make your own list.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 09:30 AM

According to my last Barclaycard statement 1.25 Trillion jars is now well out of date..

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 10:39 AM

Long ago, when I was in the trenches fighting the Kaiser, our food was brought to us in "marmite containers." These were double-walled aluminum boxes with gasketed lids that kept the stew or whatever warm while it was transported; they help about 3 US gallons each.

The French also had some sort of cooking thingy called "marmite."

Was Marmite named for these containers because it was orginally delivered in them? Or because they were (are) ground up and used as ingredients?

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 11:03 AM

Ah, how soon we forget...Mermite, Rapaire, mon ami!!

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 12:06 PM

we don't get much Marmite over here in the colonies, but we do have a decent supply of Marmots ...is there a conversion factor? I expect the USA would be worth ...oh, maybe 67 or more!

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 02:30 PM

Rapaire - look on the lable - it's got a picture of a cooking pot - so chances are that's what it's named after. God knows why - why would you cook yeast - unless to get that delicious taste without which toast is worthless.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 03:08 PM

I believe the Plain of Jars is in Cambodia, not Korea. Despite this, marmite has never been a big seller in Cambodia for some reason.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 05:47 PM

The Marmite was a cooking pot for long slow simmering at the back of the (wood) stove - or over the open fire. Almost anything boiled for long enough turns into a sticky black mess. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:44 PM

Many years back, when I was young and we were poor, we found an unlabeled can in the street. We brought it home, and some days later Mom opened it to cook it for supper.

Inside was a black, malodorous mess. All these years we thought it was roofing tar, but now I've learned, right here in this thread, that it was probably Marmite and we should have eaten it on toast.

Well, Mom used it on some leaks in the garage roof and it worked well enough for that....

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 07:49 PM

Marmite never used to be put in can, but glass bottles. It probably WAS roofing tar - or TarMite... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: GUEST,si
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 09:07 PM

For marmite read ear wax, tell the world the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:05 AM

... might have been axle grease - that used to be in cans when I was younger ...

Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Jan 04 - 09:03 AM

I thought I heard a mention of Marmite on the Archers omnibus this morning (as in one of Greg's daughters packing a jar to take home to France). But perhaps it was just ear wax.