BS: pickled onion. marmite

Subject: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:51 PM

We had a big party on December 24th, and somebody snuck into the kitchen and abandoned a jar of pickled onions and a jar of Marmite.

What do I do with these things?

{We don't drink cocktails, so don't suggest making Gibsons.)

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:55 PM

Eat the onions and fart lots. When you run out of farts from the onions, then eat the Marmite and continue where ya left off.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 09:57 PM

Pardon me: Men fart; ladies, uh, well, uh--HEY, JOE, CAN YOU ERASE THAT LAST POST OF MINE?

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:01 PM

The onions are too small to have that much impact. Any other ideas?

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:15 PM

If they are the little sweet pickled onions, they make me far--ahem, generate wind like WHOOSH!

OK. Go with this: Put the pickles and Marmite in a blender with some grape juice and cloves. At the last instant of blending as the blade is slowing down, add just a dab of sour cream. Use as a dip with chips (crisps) for those people who drop by unannounced.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:36 PM

Would you care to tell us just what it is about yourself that is despicable enough to have made someone leave pickled onions and Marmite at your house in the first place?

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Peace
Date: 04 Jan 06 - 10:37 PM

It was the spatulas. I don't know that for fact, but I suspect it was the spatulas.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:29 AM

You could "donate" (leave them under the bar) them to a pal who enjoys whipping up cocktails at their home. Come to think of it, if you reflect upon who was at your party & whom amongst your guests has a stocked bar at their home, you may be able to figure out who the culprit was & leave it on their doorstep.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:45 AM

I suspect two culprits. I know it's unlikely to find two people at the same place surruptitiously unloading unwanted gastronomic delights, but not as unlikely, methinks, as a single such person bringing those two particular items to unload.

If I was you, I'd take a long hard look at the kind of people I was letting into my house. I know it was Christmas and all, but look at the state of your kitchen.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Terry K
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:28 AM

Then again, if they really had something against you they would have left Vegemite instead.....

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:31 AM

Are they opened? Do they have long term expiry dates on them? Donate them to a harvest festival in September if they don't run out til 2007..... there is NOTHING you can do with pickled onions and/or marmite that wouldn't seriously jepoardise your chances of ever kissing anyone ever again (unless they like eating pickled onions and/or marmite, in which case, why would you want to kiss them?).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: open mike
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:46 AM

for the pickled onions see the viengar thread//
i think jacqui likes 'em--or try them in shish kebab
and marmite...well you either love it or hate it..
and a little dab will do you. i am one of those who
like it on toast....esp. sour dough toast
with butter on it too.

best keep your doors locked before other things
get brought IN to your house. i once knew some
one who did not lock their car and came to find
8 puppies put in there..jsut think how lucky you are,
it could have been 8 puppies that someone left..

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: mandotim
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 04:53 AM

Recipe;
Take the marmite, add two tablespoons of red wine (Burgundy works best). Add chopped shallots, garlic and a few rosemary leaves. Place in a heavy pan and simmer until the liquid is reduced by half. Add slices pickled onions and simmer until tender. Blend to a smooth paste. Make a bread crouton by dipping a slice of focaccia bread in extra virgin olive oil, and roasting gently until golden brown. Spread the marmite/onion paste on the crouton, and then



























Throw the whole mess away!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:19 AM

As for the marmite, all you have to is gift-wrap it, attach relevant postage and post to:

Muppett
Yorkshire
UK

I'm sure he'll appreciate it!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:57 AM

Add a couple of slices of crusty bread well buttered and a hunk of 'bite yer bum' strong cheddar. Spread said Marmite on the bread, add a bit of the aforementioned cheese, eat resulting gastronic delight, interspersed with pickled onions delicately speared with a cocktail stick (a good game on its own!)
Wash this down with a tankard or two of best scrumpy, and you will have achieved nirvana.
Sleep alone for the next couple of nights.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 07:22 AM

Spread a slice of bread with a thin layer of marmite, then a thicker layer of cream cheese; spread another slice of bread with crunchy peanut butter and sprinkle with chopped celery; sandwich the two slices together.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 08:13 AM

If you don't like Marmite as a spread you can add some to gravy to give it some spice. Beware! A little Marmite goes a long way

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 08:57 AM

Mandotim
Two tablespoons of red wine and 'the marmite' - what, ALL of it?

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: mandotim
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 09:06 AM

Guest Topsie; If you have to ask, you're not a true marmite aficionado! Seriously; my wife works in the brewing industry (rotten job, but someone has to do it! When she brings work home, I feel strangly compelled to help her with it...)She reckons that no-one in the brewery eats marmite, because it's made from the waste yeast produced in the brewing process. It sort of disappears down a chute into a skip, where it is picked up by mysterious and strange smelling lorries...
Tim from Bit on the Side

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 10:56 AM

Yes this is a known thing to me and makes marmite all the more special... :)

Marmite and sliced tomatoes on malt bread, scrummy!

Alternatively you can send it to me! actually you can the onions to me as well as I think we're nearly out of them in the bar.....

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:35 PM

That's right about keeping the doors locked and being careful who comes to parties. If marmite appears, can a didgeridoo be far behind?

I don't believe I know anybody with a bar. In keeping with general trends, our gang drinks less and less all the time. When we do drink, it's beer or wine. I'm happy to say that traffic deaths are significantly down (since the 1980's) because of this trend.

(Not that I'm particularly virtuous - I just never cared for the taste of the stuff.)
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What's the difference between Marmite and Veg-e-mite?

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 12:55 PM

Marmite is a UK brand, while Vegemite is Australian. Fans of either deprecate the other. For myself I find that Marmite has more bite while Vegemite is a little bland but no doubt Australians will say that Marmite is much too coarse.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,Big Down-Under
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:05 PM

That's like saying the Brits are bland, and Australians are coarse!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: AggieD
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:07 PM

I use a teaspoonfull stirred into the likes of meat when cooking a cottage pie, (or veggie alternative with soya), or casseroles/soups etc. It gives an extra bit of taste without being too strong, but then I love Marmite & can eat it straight off the spoon!! Come to that a nice piece of cheese & some good wholemeal bread would go well with either item. Yummmmmm

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:12 PM

I think someone was saying

BAH HUMBUG

they forgot the mustard-curried fish

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:19 PM

"That's like saying the Brits are bland, and Australians are coarse! "

I don't follow that reasoning at all! I was comparing products not people.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:57 PM

Marmite (as has been explained before) is made from left over beer makings (yeast, malt and such) whilst Veg-e-mite is made from boiled down vegetables and herbs - kinda like a bouillion, but with muscles.....

I find Veg-e-mite to be the blander of the two, but that may be because it doesn't have the same artery hardening level of salt in it.......

Yes Parker and I have a fully stocked bar. It gives Parker a hobby and keeps us off the streets. We make sure that there are no drink driving accidents in our street by not being able to drive in the first place...... :)

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:01 PM

I would have them if they're proper UK ones. The ones I've found in Maine just ain't the same. Soft and squashy and not the right taste!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: lady penelope
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:15 PM

What exactly are you refering to Jacqui.c?

(My mind is quietly boggling here....)

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:21 PM

Use one part marmite to two parts honey as a glaze when roasting pork or gammon. Tastes great.
Also if you are a fan of roasted vegetables, get the pickled onions in there too. Roasting seems to kill the vinegar but brings out the natural sugars. They taste great just as they begin to caramelize

LL

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: cptsnapper
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 02:24 PM

Tryi the marmite with mayonnaise on toast!!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:26 PM

Re "Use one part marmite to two parts honey as a glaze when roasting pork or gammon. Tastes great."

Is this for real, LL, or are you just teasing? I have some pork in the freezer and could try it.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 03:29 PM

?? jacqui - maybe you got an off jar? The pickeled onions I can get locally (and as things go I'm not that far from Maine) are crisp and crunchy.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 05:11 PM

You could offer the marmite to Pete White of 'suitcase circus fame'.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:04 PM

Mmario - I'm not going to take any more chances - I imported the real thing when I came back from the UK this time. Luckily, no-one else seems to like them so they're all MINE!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 06:15 PM

Give it to someone who has the good sense to appreciate these culinary delights. Or leartn to enjoy them. Every kitchen needs a a jar of Marmite and a jar of pickled eyeballs.

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Vegemite and Marmite. Maybe it's that people in England are inclined to be a bit too bland in the first place, so they need the extra oomph in Marmite, whereas for the Australians it's the other way round, and the relatively bland Vegemite is nature's way of balancing things up...

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Lancashire Lad
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 01:12 PM

Dear Leeneia
Yes I'm deadly serious. Perhaps if you are a little wary of marmite you could try three parts honey to one of the "dark stuff". Honestly, it tastes wonderfull and gives a lovely added taste to the meat juices too (if you use these to make gravy)

Cheers
LL

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 08 Jan 06 - 11:16 PM

Thanks, LL. I'm going to try it.

By the way, I thought that the cocktail called A Gibson used a pickled onion, so I tried looking up the formula for Gibsons. Didn't find it, but I did learn that a Gibson or Gipsen is a person from mountain areas of Virginia,Kentucky and Tennessee of mixed white, African and Indian blood.

I think I will start a rumor that "Black is the color of my true love's hair" was an ancient pagan Gibson tune.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,Dazbo
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 08:06 AM

Throw them both away: Pickled onions should be big, brown and vinegary, not small, translucent and sweet. Marmite should be exported to Australia to show them that Vegimite does have competition as the worst 'food' ever invented!

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Jan 06 - 12:47 PM

All the above may have been in vain!

On the Marmite jar it says:

11/04 4EC 12:50

Below that line is tiny print that says "best before end" and an arrow. The arrow points at the "2".

Apparently the Marmite should be eaten before 12:50. am or pm?

Or does this mean that the jar expired in November, 2004?

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The pickled onions don't even have an expiration date. Perhaps they are virtually immutable and should be shot into outer space in an attempt to show other life forms what earth is like.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 10 Jan 06 - 05:30 AM

The pickling is to preserve them so that they don't go off. However, they will soften, over the years.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 06 - 06:53 AM

The marmite jar label may have expired but I imagine that something containing as much salt as marmite will not decay in a hurry.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jan 06 - 07:50 AM

it would decay very quickly in rouge towers.

Bin there binned that.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 06:53 PM

There was a report in The Times in April 2004 saying that if you eat marmite you will give off a smell that deters mosquitos. Could be useful in areas where there is a risk of malaria.

Subject: RE: BS: pickled onion. marmite
From: Folkiedave
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 07:59 AM

There was a report in The Times in April 2004 saying that if you eat marmite you will give off a smell that deters mosquitos. Could be useful in areas where there is a risk of malaria.

Frankly it is a load of large spherical objects. I eat loads of marmite and in mosquito areas (Hungary, S. Spain) I still get bit. (Non-malarial mosquitoes of course).

Maybe it might work in conjunction with pickled onions. I just don't fancy trying it.

Dave