BS: marmite and the gaza strip

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Little Robyn
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 08:06 PM

I used to make my own 'marmite' - you need flaked edible yeast which is a byproduct from brewing beer. Most health food shops will have it and some supermarkets as well. NOT brewer's yeast or breadmaker's yeast!!!! Flaked yeast - the edible variety.
Then mix in some soy sauce until it's a consistency that you want - maybe very thick or it can be runny. The taste also depends on the type of soy sauce you use - dark soy, light soy or mushroom soy. The latter is my choice. Vegemite is supposed to be the same but I can taste a difference and don't like it. Also, English Marmite is more salty than NZ/Aussie Marmite. But right now the Marmite factory in Christchurch is damaged after the Canterbury earthquake last year and you just can't get NZ Marmite in any of the shops. You can get a similar product called Promite, which is made in Australia and this is my favourite now.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:32 PM

קן גרישה. טודה

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:18 PM

You guessed who the GUEST was.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:16 PM

מיכאל, you might have missed my point. Vegemite and Marmite compare similarly as Pepsi and Coke. Down Under, friendships and marriages are at risk, no matter how high the content of zinc.

Opium may serve the purpose better - or not.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 01:07 PM

Michael, wasn't it a woman called Jillie Goolies or something who used to taste and comment on fine wine?

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 11:38 AM

LoL right back 2U Eliza ~~ exactly the sort of jargon I meant!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 09:03 AM

LOL Michael, "A cheeky little spread; I'm getting yeast...and..yes,vegetables...and a full-flavoured salty undertone...a good year, I feel for Chateau Marmite."

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: gnu
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 07:22 AM

Thanks. I hope that clears it up for Dan... meaty, yeasty, salty Jell-O.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Nov 12 - 03:48 AM

So, what the heck does it taste like?

The Japanese use the term 'Umami'. Probably the closest we get is super-savoury.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 11:46 PM

Thanks, Don ~~ yeast, of course. Don't know where I got malt from. The flavour is savoury rather than sweet [hence the malapropicity of the jell-o suggestions]; somewhat salty and yeasty. As Don sez, that is about as far as one can go in describing a flavour, without going into the sort of silly jargon that wine correspondents tend to use.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 05:48 PM

And NO!

Neither infectious nor contagious. Just nice or nasty depending on what tastes you happen to like.

Me?......I like the stuff.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 05:46 PM

How to describe a flavour Gnu?

It is slightly meaty flavoured with a high salt content, definitely what you would call savoury.

People like/hate it in roughly equal numbers, and a recent TV documentary suggested that some people may be genetically pre-disposed to like, or hate, certain groups of flavours.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: gnu
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 05:43 PM

Is it infectious?

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 05:41 PM

""It's a vegetable malt extract sp.read, can also be used in cooking""

Close Mike.

It's actually a yeast and vegetable extract.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: gnu
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 04:42 PM

So, what the heck does it taste like? Can anyone describe it so Dan knows what to do if it's offered? This is a serious situation. Dan is a highly trained US Military officer who has trained others in survival, including eating stuff that most would not and in how to kill a man 50 different ways... are there 51 ways? Well, 52 if you include lime jello.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 04:23 PM

Grish ~~ Well, only going by what Oz friends have told me about Vegemite; no direct experience. Anyhow, Arabic & Hebrew have many strong resemblances FTM ~

Salaam שלם

2U!

מיכאל

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 04:11 PM

I Canada, (at least where I am from) the terms jelly and jam differs.
Jam has full berries/fruit. Jelly is a strained and clear fruit mixture.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 03:37 PM

I can't imagine anything more ghastly than Marmite jelly

Ah, don't forget, Eliza, that jelly in US terms is Jam. Marmite and Strawberry Jam Butties. Mmmmmmm :-)

I am not sure about the opening sentiments though. Pretty sure that Marmte could be used as an offensive weapon. Particularly Marmite Gold (Look it up yourself!)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 03:07 PM

MtheGM, saying M****** is like Vegemite is as if you were suggesting that Arab resembles Hebrew. Wars have been fought over weaker feelings.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Ed T
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 06:56 AM

The good news. You don't have to eat marmite to smell of it anymore. Perfume anyone?

marmite perfume


A related concoction story.

Fruitcake toss for the homeless

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: gnomad
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 04:36 AM

I would agree re flippancy, Eliza, it is certainly a nasty business.

That said the proposal was at least a semi-serious one, making the point that an intractable problem may require a radically different approach if a solution is to be found.

This contemporary article gives more background.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 23 Nov 12 - 04:25 AM

LOL olddude, you and jelly! I can't imagine anything more ghastly than Marmite jelly. UGH! I adore Marmite, but only about once every six months; I get a sudden craving and have it on toast for two or three days. Then I don't want any more. It's the same with peanut butter. It seems to me there are indeed certain vitamins or minerals in these two products which the body needs to top up from time to time. By the way, I do feel the terrible situation in the Gaza strip is not one to be treated flippantly. My heart aches for the poor civilians caught up in the conflict, and for the families of the dead. Let's hope the ceasefire will hold.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 11:05 PM

No, dude, nothing like jell-o. More like the Oz Vegemite. It's a vegetable malt extract sp.read, can also be used in cooking Don't know what US equiv is but there must be one?

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: olddude
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 09:51 PM

does it come with a pole pdq?

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: pdq
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 09:45 PM

See Little Egypt do her new dance: "The Gaza Strip".

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 09:08 PM

I bet it tastes like jell-o

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 08:19 PM

Nice stuff because there's 'no sweat' where it's involved.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:47 PM

Is marmite related to gelignite?

Yeah, but not as tasty.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:35 AM

The believe the only kosher marmite is produced in South Africa, and some countries do not recognize it as kosher (possibly Israel, as it is hard to find there). So, there was a danger that it could be used as a offensive weapon, Hamas shooting jars of it over to Tel Aviv, disrupting the Kosher diet? Hardly anything the west would condone.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:13 AM

Trouble with Marmite, as we all know and they admit in their own advertising, you either love it or you hate it*. Wonder which side would do which?

~M~

*I, personally, can quite easily take it or leave it alone for that matter; but then I was never the typical advertiser's Mr Average dreambody.

Subject: RE: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 07:01 AM

Is marmite related to gelignite?

Subject: BS: marmite and the gaza strip
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Nov 12 - 03:37 AM

The British Foreign and commonwealth office decided in 1999 tro launch an inititiave to solve the israel palestine crisis. They consulted mr de bono, who sugested sending them lots of marmite, apparently the middle eastern diet lacks zinc,zinc counteracts irritability.
perhaps the idea should be tried again, a kind of 21 century version of marie antoinettes "let em eat cake", more humane than selling them guns, anyway.