BS: Marmite

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 08:00 AM

If you read the other threads you found that I came to these two products through Mudcat and I'm happy to say I love them both for their differences and keep a supply of Marmite and Vegemite on hand at all times!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST,guest m
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 09:14 AM

marmite is like cucumber ,its true flavour only comes out when thinly applied

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: muppett
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 10:06 AM

Well said Guest m I agree, plus it makes the jar last longer.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 10:37 AM

last longer! Blimey yuk!

I try and put back the jar of Marmite back onto the shelves in the supermarket as we go around the supermarket. My other half keeps trying to put it in the trolley and he always seems to notice me trying to put it back - does marmite give you eyes in the back of your head?

He hasn't noticed I've hidden the jar at home yet...

I agree with the cat crap smell comment KB. Though Flossie my feline friend also turns her nose up at Marmite! But she loves Marsh mallows - we caught her pinching one of those. Surprisingly (not) she's not fussed by Marmite...

Marmite, Bovril, Vegitmite = just as bad as cucumbers - they not nice either!

Ella

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST,Ella sans cookie!
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 10:39 AM

That last one was me (as if you didn't guess) off to sort me cookies ;-)

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: muppett
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 11:48 AM

So they won't be Marmite flavoured cookies then Ella?

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 06:03 PM

When friends urged me to visit them in Alaska it turned out that they were using the invitation as opportunity to re-stock with Marmite. It's simply not available in the back country (nor anywhere in the States, for all I know). I duly packed 12 of the largest-size jars, and set forth.

TIP: If anyone else tries this, it would be advisable to remove a large spoonful of the precious sludge from each jar before checking your bags. I didn't, with the result that all 12 jars exploded during the flight (cargo holds being unpressurised). At least I discovered that the entire contents of a backpack are rendered unserviceable by this kind of incident.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 11:02 AM

Don't get Bonox muddled up with Botox: could have a paralysing effect!
And does the Bovril barge collect its waste underneath the Oxo tower? with the London Eye looking on disapprovingly??

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: AliUK
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 02:41 PM

Fionn,
that´s why you should always carry the marmite in the hand luggage. A friend of mine also found this out the hard way.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 02:46 PM

You can buy both in thestates now.....maybe not Alaska, but there are a number of "International Groceries" selling it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Oct 03 - 03:48 PM

As has been mentioned in this thread by Rapaire , Marmite can be used as an explosive, with the right sort of detonator. So I suppose you could get into trouble at customs, with it in your hand luggage - it could well be on a list of forbidden substances somewhere...

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 05:27 AM

Fly this plane into the Houses of Parliament, or I will detonate this marmite sandwich. . . . . . hmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Oct 03 - 05:36 AM

Lengthy sounds effects, then plaintive voice: "I've been deaded!"

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Oct 03 - 07:43 PM

And watch out for the Oxo tower on the way!!

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Oct 03 - 05:28 PM

All this talk of Marmite - it leaves a nasty taste in my mouth........

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 30 Oct 03 - 04:43 AM

Mr Red - what do you put on your bread - Tomato Sauce ? - It would fit in with your colour co-ordination.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 03:07 AM

Spaw, where do you get your Marmite? Do others in the US have local suppliers? I was surprised to find it at my local Raley's supermarket in Auburn, California - but it was $3 for the smallest jar you can imagine.
I haven't splurged and bought a bottle yet - but I will. Maybe I'll ask for it as a Christmas present....
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 07:08 AM

If you spread it very thinly on your toast, which is in my opinion the best way to use it, even a small jar will last for a long time.

BTW Joe, didn't you get treated to any on your last trip to the UK ?

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Little Robyn
Date: 31 Oct 03 - 07:31 PM

Joe, if you follow my recipe (above) you can fill a big jar for only about $3.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Nov 03 - 01:56 PM

Hi, Robyn - Maybe I should try that. I'll keep my eyes open for flaked yeast. Dave, I started my Marmite "habit" on my trip to England last year. I also got addicted to that hot yellow English mustard - Coleman's, I think. I think I'll pick up a jar of Marmite at the supermarket tomorrow, even though it may be expensive. It got cold here, and Marmite on toast would be wonderful just now.
Hmmm. maybe some mustard, too - my market has that, also.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 11:57 AM

Dave Bryant

Bread? Bread? We Staffordshiremen prefer Staffordshire Oatcakes - bit like a cross between a damp chapptti and a pancake but made with oats.

Treacle. (treacle is black, syrup is golden) I hope this clears-up the query.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST,Marmite
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 01:50 PM

This sounds like a case for Secret Santa!

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 02:10 PM

perhaps some Marmite on Durian Fruit would be JUST the thing! (to clear the premises quickly)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Nov 03 - 07:24 PM

MUSTARD? and that's another thing........
Joe, please one horror at a time

I am told (never got near enough to prove it) that Durian fruit are tasty, it is just the smell that people can't take. Marmite is doubly obnoxious.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 03:49 AM

A week away in germand and France and You are still on about it...

Shudder!

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Helen
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 05:51 AM

My computer-geek hubby says: "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

There is also a new type of savoury biscuit/cracker in Oz which are flavoured with Vegemite. The surprising thing is not that it is available, but that no-one thought of it sooner.

For me there are only two ways to eat Vegemite.   On hot buttered toast, fairly thickly spread. And on semi-sweet biscuits like Arnott's Milk Arrowroot or Morning Coffee biscuits with a good spreading of butter. Those bikkies go well with butter and cheese too.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 06:32 AM

Sorry Mr Red, I always assumed that you adopted a crimson diet as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:42 AM

Helen
thoise are two of my favourite ways of bikkies & Vegemite, - don;t forget SAO bikkies - there is a song about
"Can you fit a Sao,
all in your mouth in one go?"

Aussies have had prepak Snack Packs with bikkies and Vegemite for some time now...

Amother good type of bikkie for Vege and butter is those rye crispbread ones - the one with all the tiny holes - the filling squishes out them when you bite it - there was even a TV ad showing that.

Also a favourite of mine from childhood - Weetbix/Vitabix breakfast thingies - vegemite and LOADS of soft butter - Ah, those were the days...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 10:11 AM

Robin, those were Vita Weat. My kids used to like squeezing them to make vegemite "worms" come out of the holes.

Some time back, you could get vegemite flavoured cheese slices, but I haven't seen them for a while, so maybe they didn't sell too well.

I find if I'm recovering from any kind of stomach upset, the first thing I feel like having is vegemite toast - with a nice hot cup of tea, of course.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Little Robyn
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 01:51 PM

When we were ill as kids, we were given beef tea, made using Marmite (or OXO or Bovril or Bovo or Vegemite..... any of the above). A nice lite savoury hot drink, especially good when you can't face anything sweet.
These days I always start the day with a concoction made from 1/2 teaspoon Teaco Beef Tea (Bovril is OK but 3x the price), 1/2 teaspoon plain gelatine and when that's dissolved in 3/4 cup of hot water, throw in about 1 dessertspoonful of flaked yeast.
It keeps my old bones lubricated, gives me lots of B vitamins and sets me up for the day!

Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 03:02 PM

Dave Bryant -
I like tomato soup. Does that muddy the waters?

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Helen
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 12:56 AM

I'm trying to think of the brand name for the Vegemite flavoured bikkies - One type is by Lane's and the other is Arnotts and they look similar, in similar sized packs with different background colours according to flavour. Obviously the main box colour for the Vegemite ones is yellow with black and red writing.

Oh yes: Arnotts Shapes, but I think it is the other brand.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 01:59 AM

I didn't try them, but I would suspect that having the vegemite IN the cheese would be different to having next to or on the cheese...

Oh, No, My jar is almost empty! Have to buy a new one....

Ribin

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 07:01 AM

Twiglets are a bit like Marmite flavoured biscuits.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 05 Nov 03 - 07:33 AM

Oh gawd Dave - you just reminded me how much I hate Twiglets too!

yeuchhhhhhhh

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: mouldy
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 02:53 AM

I'd like to think that it was the cheese & marmite sandwich we gave Joe that was responsible for his developing the taste, but I bet he'd already tried it.

When I am getting my appetite back after a migraine, my first food is usually toast and marmite. When I was pregnant the first time, the only thing I could fancy in the evening during the early months was marmite sandwiches and a couple of pickled onions, washed down with a drink of milk. My son hates both.

I never tried marmite until I started going out with my husband. I was reared on Bovril butties. Funny, I have only ever eaten marmite since we got married.

As for twiglets...a few years ago I hosted a French student for a couple of weeks. He couldn't even stand the thought of marmite. Funny though, once he'd eaten a twiglet he couldn't get enough of them. He wouldn't believe me when I told him what they tasted of, and he still refused to try marmite!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 03 - 05:11 AM

Ah, yes, Mouldy, that was a lovely sandwich, and lovely company - but it was marmite on toast that really got me hooked! Thanks again for your hospitality.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Nov 03 - 01:07 PM

On the News in Oz -

Pauline Hansen, after being released from goal, had for breakfast on her first day home, toast and Vegemite.... and they tried to claim she wasn;t a real aussie... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Little Robyn
Date: 07 Nov 03 - 08:05 PM

My aunty Emma (b.1889,d.1988) taught me how to eat marmite on toast - put the marmite on first! Then the butter on top. Much easier than trying to smear the stuff over melting butter!
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: rock chick
Date: 08 Nov 03 - 06:24 PM

Wish I had never entered this thread, cos I keep coming back to it and evertime I do I HAVE to have some marmite on toast with cheese, at this rate i am going to get really FAT...........back in a mow need my marmite fix, again.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Nov 03 - 10:19 PM

Robyn

interesting way of applying it, but I like to put soft real butter on very hot toast, let it be absorbed, THEN put the Mar/Veg-Mite on. If it doesn't absorb fully cause it's not soft enough, then I get a blend of the two which I cream together and smear everywhere - mostly on the toast!

Robin
P.S. you should join the Round-Robin-Ring.... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST,guest--open mike
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 12:14 AM

does any one know of a way to find out how marmite is made?
I have grown quite fond of it after having gotten some from
myu secret santa. There is a brewery near here, and I hear
that some Marmite factories are right across the streen form
breweries as the by-products of beer making are the ingredients
for Marmite. I have requested Sorcha to search out the recipe
on her UK adventure tour. Is it possible to locate the recipe?
I understand most of what it contains is yeast from beer vats.
I have a dream of manufacturing it here! If it is lo-carb it
might get popular by all the atkins diet people..

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 02:18 AM

Interesting question, Mike.

I'm sorry to say that I have no idea. Neither, would it seem, does the Marmite FAQ

Apologies for being less than helpful.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: mouldy
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 02:30 AM

I've mentioned it before, and I don't know if it's still in print, but there is a Marmite cookery book called "My Mate Marmite In The Kitchen" - By Rosemary Moon, published 1992 by Good Books. ISBN 0 946555 24 9 (softback) and 0 946555 25 7 (hardback). It was a charity fundraiser for the NSPCC.

It also says for more information on Marmite Yeast Extract, contact CPC (UK) Ltd, Esher, Surrey KT10 9PN.

I am full of cold at the moment, and one thing that will jig my cotton-woolly mouth is a nice piece of toast and Marmite.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 02:49 AM

I don't eat Vegemite any more cause it is owned by a foreign company (US) - I only eat "MightyMite" - cheaper, Aussie made and owned, and John Williamson sings the advert! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Little Robyn
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:39 AM

If you read the beginning of this thread you'll find I've given the recipe - on 21 Oct last year!
You use flaked yeast - the edible stuff, not the brewer's stuff or the breadmaker's type. And mix it with soy sauce. And that's all - no preservatives, no caramelisers or artificial additives. Only whatever is in yeast and soy sauce.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Bobjack
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:42 AM

Marmite is shite without spam!

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Sooz
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:46 AM

If you want to know how it is made, you should read the Lost Continent by Terry Pratchett. This tells the story of the accidental invention of Vegemite by Rincewind the wizard.

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Bobjack
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:52 AM

99

Subject: RE: BS: Marmite
From: Bobjack
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:53 AM

Post number 100. I thank you. You have made an old guinea pig very happy!