marmite

Trivet, have I told you how much I like your family? :-)

I'm with c_b, though, on at least one of her abominations. Marshmallow is fit only as ammunition in an Arsenal for Civil Defunse.

Well if we're talking weird sandwich fillings:
My best friends parents told me that when they were courting (in wartime), one time he arrived with a steak-and-kidney pudding sandwich.
Me, I like avocado and bacon, or just avocado on its own; cheese is magical though - not usually available in China though, so when I'm back in UK for the summer, I usually od on cheese. Also bread in all its forms. And chocolate!

Well slap me down with a bunch of rocket!

Oh, no! You see, the sandwich gods brought them together for the sole purpose of redistributing previously mis-matched sandwich fixings (with some lettuce they found along the way...) Voila! Two new sandwiches were born: peanut butter and jam (raspberry only, thank-you-very-much) and cheese, lettuce and mayonnaise. *angels singing*

I admire the person you have become, trivet, given that you were brought up in a den of sandwich crime.

Bilby, the peanut butter and pickle combination has a certain je ne sais quoi. But then, my parents are odd about sandwiches.

My mother was sent to school every day with a cheddar cheese and jam sandwich in her Dale Evans lunch box. My father's contained peanut butter and mayonnaise.

You'll have to see the Abominations list. I'm surprised CPS isn't already there putting handcuffs on you.

(hint: bananas and marshmallow. How could you let those... those... substances touch the food of the gods?!)

c_b et al: What possible problem can you have with PBF??? It's sweet and fatty and salty and I was never allowed to eat it as a child, which always makes things taste better. (c_b, clarification would help. Which two combinations are worthy of a call to cps?)

Cb, I'm with you all the way. I like a smooth peanut butter in my satay sauce, but with some chopped peanuts sprinkled on top.

And jenn, I love my pb with honey, but I find it difficult to eat without getting goo everywhere, so it can only be eaten when I'm alone.

PS: I'm also really not fond of Nigella Lawson. Sorry.

I agree cruchy pb for sammies, creamy for satay. Sorry to have to admit that I like creamy on toasted rye (with seeds) with sliced bananas on top...I know... I'm not suggesting that anyone try it. I think it's MY thing. I don't have an excuse.

@jennarenn: Peanut butter and fluff?! I'm glad we don't have navels.
@trivet: What planet is he from?
@chained_bear: Satay sauce is better with crunchy. It's just a crunchy world and that's all there is to it.

In any case, peanut butter is redundant before the power of Marmite. As Nigella Lawson demonstrates:
"Whisk soft unsalted butter with some Marmite and then spread the peanut-butter coloured mix on to sliced white bread. 100g butter is enough to sandwich the slices of one loaf, the quantity of Marmite depends on whether you want a mild-tasting, buff-coloured cream or a salty-strong, sunbed-tan glaze."

There are in fact two different Marmites. They were originally one and the same, but the New Zealand one has evolved along different lines from the British one, which is also made in South Africa. Look out! Marmite soldiers have you surrounded!

Crunchy pb. Always.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some peanut butter to consume.

Jennarenn. You have listed two bona-fide abominations on your list of items to eat with peanut butter. I have already placed a call to Child Protective Services. You should expect a knock at the door shortly.

My father's favorite is peanut butter and pickle. That's not to sweet for you, bilby, is it?

jmp: You feed that junk to *children*? I think I may have to call Child Protectivce Services on the lot of you.

Peanut butter is a pretty amazing food item. Have you ever had:

Peanut butter and fluff?
Peanut butter and honey?
Peanut butter and banana?

c_b: Amen. Crunchy all the way.

Dontcry: Creamy is for weenies, or for making satay sauce or a nice Chinese noodle dish. Crunchy all the way.

Bilby: To the death.

Have you not considered the peanutty gooeyness is perfectly matched by the sugary fruitiness?

c_b, good point about the Raid!

Are Aussie hangovers worse than other hangovers because they're upside-down?

I'll pass on the natto I'm out of the wordie food challenge business. My marriage depends on it!

Ditto on PB&J! Crunchy or creamy?

Peanut butter and jam ... but ... why? Enough sugar to stop clock and enough sticky-goo to cement it to the difficult-to-reach parts of your mouth for a week. It's enough to make my inner Righteous Dentist positively bristle.

I like Promite and Vegemite, never got into Marmite.

Dontcry, I think in your description of how Marmite tastes, you left out "add a teaspoon of Raid bug killer."

Also, DC, when you get hangovers like Aussies get, you'll learn to love Vegemite. You can feel like the scum on the floor of a restroom in a sleazy bar, eat some Vegemite, and half an hour later you'll be turning cartwheels. I have done this.

Also, I challenge you, if you really think Marmite's the most disgusting thing you've ever put in your mouth, to try some natto. Natto wins hands down. I dare you. I double-dog dare you.

I will defend peanut butter and jelly (which is not what antipodeans and UK-ites call jelly and Americans call Jell-O; it is what antipodeans and UK-ites would call jam) to the death. And I have done this.

Gravy by gangerh. In defence of Marmite. Quantities to taste.
Stock,meat juices,vegetable water,mustard,cornflour,honey,herbs de provence,sherry or port or wine or whisky,MARMITE or Bovril,etc, etc.
Never the same twice but always smells intoxicating.
Add specifics like sweet chilli sauce relative to dish.

peanut butter + anything = barf! Peanut butter itself is pretty barf too, except as a base for making satay sauce.

Peanut butter and jam = yum.
Vegmite = delicious.

I will defend the above until death.

Marmite on toast is delicious, elthough it does have to be spread very thinly. Babies love it on toast fingers and they go num-num. UK babies that is.

But peanut butter and jelly? Yuk! Who could think of such an abomination?

I don't care that Australians don't have navels. And their little pouches are kind of endearing. But that song is deeply disturbing, as is the entire spreadable mite phenomenon.

That song is a musical masterpiece. I don't think I know an Australian who can't sing it on command, haha. I tried to find the original ad with the cute little children who are even more persuasive, but it evaded me.

And I totally agree that marmite is festy, but I maintain that vegemite is fantabulous.

I have to go to bed, but before I do, I beg those of you who have not tried the "mite" products: DO NOT EAT IT. THEY ARE DISGUSTING.

My God! It's an abomination! You people seriously need to crawl up and eat some real food stuff.

Plethora -- Really? THAT song was supposed to change my mind about what has to be the most vile substance I ever have placed into my mouth? Seriously? Are you kidding?

Yes, dc, but you only had Marmite. Vegemite is delicious. And it even has a song!

Hilarious description dontcry, please send that to the Marmite people!

Overseas I continually meet streams of Australian travellers toting a jar of vegemite, terrified that they may run out of the magic potion in their hour of need.

So, we've decided that this vegemite/marmite/promite crap is just a huge "downunder" joke, right? None of you actually eat this crap. I've got to give it to you -- very funny!

Here's what it tastes like: if you left the coffee pot on the burner with just a tablespoon of coffee in it and that coffee got burned and reduced to a teaspoon of sticky paste, then you added about a tablespoon of salt to it, then you set it on fire and put the fire out with salt....that's what it taste like.

Yes! Come over here and stand next to me, dontcry! And your husband too!

So, my husband was mixing the meat for burgers when I popped the marmite into his mouth. At first he got a curious look on his face, then the curiosity turned to horror. He looked left and right, trying to figure out what had just happened to him. I could see he wanted to pull out the garbage pail and spit, but he was up to his wrists in ground turkey. His eyes narrowed into a glare as he looked at me and swallowed.

Things went downhill from there...

jmp - that's the best reason yet to visit China.

marmite art

Excellent on hot buttered crumpets, as is honey. But not in combination!

Just had my lunch - cheese & marmite sandwiches, also corned beef and branston pickle

Delicious. Can't get that in China! In fact can hardly even get bread.

I am literally on tenterhooks!

You'll have to do better than that! I have to sleep next to him tonight... Good-night. I'll check back in the (US East Coast) morning! BTW: I tried it too and I'll give my honest review in the morning.

Pro -- you'd better be sound asleep, mr. bunny! (What did you have for dinner last night? Spare no details...).

Aww... see, now I feel bad (not!).

I popped a piece of freshly baked and fabulously toasted and buttery croissant, "thinly spread" with marmite into my beloved's mouth moments ago.

You'll have to beg me for the results. (Hint: it will be worth it!).

It was the corn chip. Marmite on corn chips is just plain sinful.

*snort* I got my daughter's boyfriend to try a bit on a corn chip. He obliged, trying (always trying...) to ingratiate himself to me. He had to spit it out hork it into the garbage pail. If I liked him (or her) better, I'd have given him a bit of croissant to try it on instead...yes, I have an evil side.

My next victim, my husband, who is due any moment now. He won't be as easily fooled. I'm going to try to pass it off as a homemade black olive tapanade. Shhhh. (hee, hee!)

Slowly! Appreciation of the Distilled Essence of Marm should not be rushed.

Okay, skip, I'll give it a sniff -- but bilby's got me all worked up about my kidneys, and yarb's just being a dick (sory, yarb, I plead scorpioptic).

Here goes...it smells like burnt something. Coffee? Chocolate? Mar?

I'm not eating it -- not yet anyway. I need some witnesses.

I may change my mind on Marmite before it deteriorates completely:

"In a study lasting three years, Jane Durga, of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and her colleagues found that people taking such supplements did better on measures of memory, information-processing speed and verbal fluency. That, plus evidence that folate deficiency is associated with clinical depression, suggests eating spinach, orange juice and Marmite, which are all rich in folic acid."
-Economist.com

THAT was NOT helpful, yarb! I have excellent taste and now I fear I'll never open that teeny, tiny, expensive jar of...whatever-the-hell-it-is!

It looks like molasses from the outside...

People either love Marmite, or they have good taste. Which are you, dontcry?

Okay, so I'm at the grocery store today and my curiosity got the best of me...and I purchased a jar of marmite. It looks just like the picture here! I wanted to get vegemite, but this was all they had in the tiny little "English/Irish" food section.

Anyhoo, now I'm afraid to try it...I'm even afraid to open it and give it a sniff...

Courage, please...

Yes dear.

....ohhh...that does sound delicious...to DEER!

Oh, you want to slather it on. It's just that the high salt content will give your kidneys a dose of the howling fantods if you do.

It warns you right on the label to "spread thinly." How good can it be if you don't want to slather it on?

Babies also love rice flakes mixed with breast milk...

Marmite is delicious. Babies love it. Love it? Hate It?

*hork*

It's what you use for making marmotatouille.

Marmite and Promite are abominations.

It's French for stockpot.
- look at the picture on the label

Are these weirdnet definitions which identify marmite as a kind of pot legit?