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31 Dec 03 - 05:25 AM (#1083006) Subject: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: harlowpoet 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? |
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31 Dec 03 - 05:43 AM (#1083013) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Sandra in Sydney 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 |
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31 Dec 03 - 05:44 AM (#1083014) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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31 Dec 03 - 06:48 AM (#1083027) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Dave Hanson If I was in charge I'd sell. eric |
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31 Dec 03 - 07:43 AM (#1083049) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: artbrooks 1.25 trillion jar of Marmite. eh? Surely the UK has some intrinsic value? |
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31 Dec 03 - 08:01 AM (#1083056) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,Sttaw Legend Where is all the bread coming from ? |
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31 Dec 03 - 09:12 AM (#1083097) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Rapparee Where are all the *jars* coming from? |
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31 Dec 03 - 10:07 AM (#1083140) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: The Fooles Troupe From The Plain of Jars in Korea! |
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31 Dec 03 - 12:07 PM (#1083235) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Amos 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 |
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31 Dec 03 - 08:19 PM (#1083566) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Peace This looks like a job for the Marminator. |
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31 Dec 03 - 09:20 PM (#1083600) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Rapparee I thought the Plain of Jars was in Laos...or Cambodia. Somewhere around there anyway. |
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01 Jan 04 - 12:20 AM (#1083680) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,Albert McSwiggins, reinstated gardener 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 |
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01 Jan 04 - 01:26 AM (#1083707) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: The Fooles Troupe 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? |
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01 Jan 04 - 01:30 AM (#1083708) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: artbrooks Because 'Fancy of Jars' sounds dumb. |
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01 Jan 04 - 04:41 AM (#1083740) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: harlowpoet I started this as a serious thread, and thought it would be treated as such. It was the very yeast I expected |
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01 Jan 04 - 06:28 AM (#1083773) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: freda underhill 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 |
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01 Jan 04 - 08:57 AM (#1083820) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Herga Kitty 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 |
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01 Jan 04 - 09:09 AM (#1083822) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,Van 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. |
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01 Jan 04 - 09:30 AM (#1083832) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,Seaking According to my last Barclaycard statement 1.25 Trillion jars is now well out of date.. |
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01 Jan 04 - 10:39 AM (#1083854) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Rapparee 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? |
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01 Jan 04 - 11:03 AM (#1083863) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: artbrooks Ah, how soon we forget...Mermite, Rapaire, mon ami!! |
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01 Jan 04 - 12:06 PM (#1083910) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Bill D 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! |
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01 Jan 04 - 02:30 PM (#1084035) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,Van 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. |
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01 Jan 04 - 03:08 PM (#1084058) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Little Hawk 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. |
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01 Jan 04 - 05:47 PM (#1084165) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: The Fooles Troupe 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. :-) |
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01 Jan 04 - 07:44 PM (#1084242) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Rapparee 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.... |
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01 Jan 04 - 07:49 PM (#1084248) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: The Fooles Troupe Marmite never used to be put in can, but glass bottles. It probably WAS roofing tar - or TarMite... :-) |
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01 Jan 04 - 09:07 PM (#1084291) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: GUEST,si For marmite read ear wax, tell the world the truth. |
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02 Jan 04 - 09:05 AM (#1084505) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: The Fooles Troupe ... might have been axle grease - that used to be in cans when I was younger ... |
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04 Jan 04 - 09:03 AM (#1085763) Subject: RE: BS: UK worth 1.25 trillion jars of Marmite From: Herga Kitty 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. |