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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 16:56:49 GMT
^ Well on the basis of "And have one for yourself..." yes, it is! What would 15-20p buy you in a theatre bar? One dry roasted nut. Possibly.
Tipping in a theatre bar...? No. Sorry. They charge enough as it is.
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Post by sherriebythesea on Jul 14, 2018 0:11:00 GMT
I don’t understand when someone refers to anything as a “Marmite”. I love a bit of Marmite on bread with cheese and wine so I’m trying to figure out how something being called “Marmite” can be bad?
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Post by CG on the loose on Jul 14, 2018 0:35:15 GMT
I don’t understand when someone refers to anything as a “Marmite”. I love a bit of Marmite on bread with cheese and wine so I’m trying to figure out how something being called “Marmite” can be bad? It's not necessarily a derogatory term - people tend to either love or loathe Marmite, so it's applied to a show (or anything else) that it's thought will strongly divide opinion
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Post by sherriebythesea on Jul 14, 2018 0:46:03 GMT
It's not necessarily a derogatory term - people tend to either love or loathe Marmite, so it's applied to a show (or anything else) that it's thought will strongly divide opinion Thank you. I get it now.
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Post by Jon on Jul 14, 2018 0:47:50 GMT
Is Marmite known in the US? I've always thought it was more of a British cuisine.
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Post by harrietcraig on Jul 14, 2018 1:29:30 GMT
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 14, 2018 1:51:41 GMT
Obscure Marmite/Theatre link. Justus von Liebig, who discovered that yeast could be concentrated, and who therefore made Marmite possible, was also the inspiration for the Doctor who conducts dietary experiments on the title character in the play Woyzeck.
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Post by d'James on Jul 14, 2018 7:49:53 GMT
Wasn’t Marmite banned somewhere? Canada maybe?
Anyway, I neither love nor hate the stuff. Sometimes I’ll want some so I buy a jar but then it sits in the cupboard for two years after the first slice of toast.
(Marmite Cashews are perfection.)
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 14, 2018 8:16:37 GMT
Marmite Cashews are perfection. No. Has to be melting off hot toast. Like what I'm having right now.
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Post by tonyloco on Jul 14, 2018 8:39:13 GMT
Aussies prefer their own local version called Vegemite. It is available in Waitrose!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 9:34:26 GMT
Aussies prefer their own local version called Vegemite. It is available in Waitrose! When I was in NY an Australian man brought down a HUGE tub of Vegemite to breakfast. I wanted to applaud his commitment to cultural stereotypes (and that as an Australian, travel-sized wasn't an option everything's bigger Down under right?!)
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Post by mistressjojo on Jul 14, 2018 9:41:19 GMT
Aussies prefer their own local version called Vegemite. It is available in Waitrose! When I was in NY an Australian man brought down a HUGE tub of Vegemite to breakfast. I wanted to applaud his commitment to cultural stereotypes (and that as an Australian, travel-sized wasn't an option everything's bigger Down under right?!) Actually, there are travel sized tubes of Vegemite readily available. Maybe he just had size issues.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 9:43:39 GMT
When I was in NY an Australian man brought down a HUGE tub of Vegemite to breakfast. I wanted to applaud his commitment to cultural stereotypes (and that as an Australian, travel-sized wasn't an option everything's bigger Down under right?!) Actually, there are travel sized tubes of Vegemite readily available. Maybe he just had size issues. "I'll show those Yanks what we're made of"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 9:54:23 GMT
Ha! I love that. Could HHP even be any more British?
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Post by d'James on Jul 14, 2018 11:44:02 GMT
Aussies prefer their own local version called Vegemite. It is available in Waitrose! I did a scientific test and Marmite is better. Vegemite tastes too chemically.
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Post by sherriebythesea on Jul 14, 2018 17:05:33 GMT
Is Marmite known in the US? I've always thought it was more of a British cuisine. I live in small town in Rhode Island and they carry it in the little British Foods section that our local grocery store has. It's where I get my Ginger Nuts biscuits and Heinz beans also. And I think that all the responses I've gotten does indeed show "The Marmite Effect"
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Post by tonyloco on Jul 14, 2018 17:55:51 GMT
I did a scientific test and Marmite is better. Vegemite tastes too chemically. You may well be right but after 81 years of eating Vegemite I don't intend to change the habits of a lifetime, especially as I have several jars of Vegemite in the stock cupboard which may well see me out anyway! But thanks for the information.
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Post by d'James on Jul 14, 2018 17:59:22 GMT
I did a scientific test and Marmite is better. Vegemite tastes too chemically. You may well be right but after 81 years of eating Vegemite I don't intend to change the habits of a lifetime, especially as I have several jars of Vegemite in the stock cupboard which may well see me out anyway! But thanks for the information. Haha. We like what we like. Also as I said I don’t eat it very often so my opinion isn’t worth much.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 14, 2018 19:30:45 GMT
Walkers now sell Marmite crisps but you can no longer get Bovril ones. This is a travesty, we need both!
Long gone are the days of Oxo crisps and (a vague memory this) of Baked Bean Flavour in the seventies. The king of crazy crisp manufacturers has to have been Tudor who created chocolate crisps (just wrong) and kipper (smelly) amongst other mad flights of fancy.
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Post by jaqs on Jul 14, 2018 19:42:38 GMT
We want to be Smiiiiths crisps, I loved their bovril crisps. Vegimite needs butter but marmite I can eat directly on toast or crumpet.
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Post by d'James on Jul 14, 2018 20:55:08 GMT
Did anyone ever try Wooshtershooshtershooshter Sauce Twiglets? (I’m sure there was a snack thread haha.)
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Post by sherriebythesea on Jul 14, 2018 21:08:39 GMT
I’m going to market in the morning for some cashews. Found several recipes for marmite cashews and now HAVE to try them. I even found a marmite salted caramel cake frosting recipe that sounds so good also
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Post by tmesis on Jul 15, 2018 7:59:18 GMT
Walkers now sell Marmite crisps but you can no longer get Bovril ones. This is a travesty, we need both! Long gone are the days of Oxo crisps and (a vague memory this) of Baked Bean Flavour in the seventies. The king of crazy crisp manufacturers has to have been Tudor who created chocolate crisps (just wrong) and kipper (smelly) amongst other mad flights of fancy. I have reason to remember Oxo crisps very well. As a child of 4 or 5 in the late 1950s my parents kept a pub on the Derbys/Notts border, an area that would now be called D.H.Lawrence Country. Picture if you will young tmesis sat on his favourite improvised stool, an inverted Smiths Crisp tin. Yes unbelievable then the individual packets of crisps did not come in a cardboard box but a very pleasingly decorated tin made by Metalbox. The pub was called The Greyhound Inn and I have extremely vivid and fond memories of my childhood there. There I would be sat on my tin, packet of salted Smiths crisps in one hand and a bottle of Vimto, with straw (even though I lived in the same village as Dennis Skinner we had standards then and it was considered vulgar to drink straight from the bottle.) The crisps would thrillingly have inside them a scrunched up bit of blue waxed paper containing the salt. I remember the brewery later on supplying us with a new type of crisp called Golden Wonder which had much more garish packaging and, how cutting edge, came in cardboard box. They pioneered the exotic flavours including Oxo. Later on, when I started school, I would come home with my friend Peter and, the pub being closed, we would enjoy a game of darts or dominoes in the tap-room. This we would accompany with a naughty 1/4 pint of mild (we enjoyed the sweetness of mild more than bitter.) All you CAMRA fans might like to know that this was obviously real ale since that was all there was; people knew no other as vile keg beer was still a few years away.
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Post by ellie1981 on Jul 15, 2018 17:21:59 GMT
Did anyone ever try Wooshtershooshtershooshter Sauce Twiglets? (I’m sure there was a snack thread haha.) I could live off Worcestershire Sauce. Seriously I buy a new bottle every couple of weeks. Even have friends who go to Costco and grab me the double pack of 500ml bottles to tide me over for a while. I’ve even tried it (as a joke) by adding it to chocolate cake, but still found it delicious. The Worcester Sauce Twiglets were a bit of a letdown. I had to manually add more sauce.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 18:06:49 GMT
I remember during a Primary School "Creative Writing" lesson we had to write about favourite foods. And I wrote about Worcestershire Sauce. Thinking back that was probably a very odd thing for the teacher to read a like 10 year old loving but hey ho.
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Post by hulmeman on Jul 15, 2018 18:24:27 GMT
I’m going to market in the morning for some cashews. Found several recipes for marmite cashews and now HAVE to try them. I even found a marmite salted caramel cake frosting recipe that sounds so good also No sherriebythesea marmite salted caramel cake frosting is just wrong. It will not end well. You'll be proposing pancakes, bacon and syrup next.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Jul 15, 2018 20:27:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2018 21:22:43 GMT
Does this thread need re-titling to Condiment Conversations?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2018 8:09:52 GMT
I used to love the crisps with the little packet of salt in the bag. Sometimes you’d find two bags of salt- it was almost like finding that extra sticker in your Batman stickers packet! Walkers still make these crisps. They’re called Salt’n’Shake.
But better than these were Burtons Ready Salted Potato Puffs. Heaven! You could get them in the bakers after school. I can remember my mum buying me a bag to take to school next morning for my tuck. You had to put your tuck on the teacher’s desk after she had written your name on it with her Magic Marker.
I don’t know what I loved best: the potato puffs or the smell of her Magic Marker...
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Post by firefingers on Jul 16, 2018 12:04:37 GMT
Wrong thread.
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