Marmite Misery

You know how to tease a guy. Sitting here in Rio Dulce, Guatemala looking at my last extra large jar of Marmite (cooking pot on label, marmite,french for large cooking pot) and realising it is nearly empty. Not a celluloid cat in hells chance of finding a replacement here. Might just find an ancient jar in Belize, ex Brit colony of British Honduras, tucked away on a shelf covered with dust. It would taste just as good as new. Have you tasted marmite from an opened jar that has not been used for a year. Still tastes good! You just get a craving for it sometime (and the Marmite)!!
Used to live near factory in Burton on Trent before sailing off.

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That's an American habit except they call it peanut butter and 'jelly', personally I prefer tomato ketchup to the jam!

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As Robin said; Marmite then Peanut Butter (can't spread the other way round) YES!!

Someone who reckoned he knew about these things once told me that Marmite promotes hormone growth and can make children obese. Also that it was used on undernourished kids in WW2 for that very reason. Purely anecdotal cos I know nothing about chemistry!

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We had an Aussie at work a while ago and this subject was debated hotly for some time!

In the end we researched it on the web and found that Marmite was an English product which was introduced in the late 19th century. Vegemite was introduced in Australia shortly after the First World war.

Our theory was that an Aussie discovered Marmite during the War and then returned home , made up his own recipe, and launched it as "Vegemite"

With globalisation as it is I think that they are both owned by Kraft now, but I haven't checked our jars....they are both on the boat!



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One thing to add to the above, The shape of the Marmite jar is also part of the marketing ploy in that it is supposed to represent the shape of a traditional French ‘Marmite pot’

Why do we retain such infomation?

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There are so many different hormones, that your friend would have to be more specific in which ones marmite is supposed to affect, but I know of no studies which show marmite will cause hormonal imbalance or obesity in normal healthy children. It is however a good source of B vitamins. It also contains a good deal of salt, so children should not eat it in huge quantities.

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We don't have classy containers in NZ with French marmite picture on the label here, just ordinary plastic "jar" like this-

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Same one is found in Australia. Made here by Sanitarium who will I am sure excuse me using their picture in return for exposure of their product to the international yachting community.

I have been told ours/Oz's tastes different to the UK one - any experts?

Also found the following from the leads given by others -

MARMITE is a Registered Trade Mark of CPC International Inc. and made in England CPC(UK) Ltd. Esher, Surrey, The MARMITE Company, Burton-on-Trent.

John

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One of my customers in around 1980 was the Guinness brewery at Park Royal and they told me (over a half pint of the product) that until recently a tanker had collected the spent yeast to go to make yeast extract. Years earlier, Guinness had apparently produced their own yeast extract called Guinness Yeast Extract, or GRE. I wonder if anyone here remembers it - I have googled but drawn a blank.

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My father-in-law is a farmer and swears by Marmite for curing all "ills" in his chickens. Any sick chickens get a "dose" of Marmite in their water and (God forbid) I have witnessed the cure, it works.

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I'm also a Marmite nut! As for Vegemite, an invention of our convict cousins<s>

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Spent the first 24 years of my life in the UK eating Marmite (now the wrong side of 30 in NZ). NZ marmite tastes like C**p and it taste exactly the same as Vegemite. Where as Our Mate as avilable in NZ and OZ is English marmite, the only difference being the name and that it doesn't have the marmite pot on the label (Yummy). I've even managed to convert My Kiwi girlfriend (now trying to convert her to sailing).
I too have had the usual arguments with our Antipodean cousins about various food stuffs and there origins, great fun and the internet is great for proving them wrong. HA, HA
If any Kiwi's out there who live near Wellington want to try Our Mate and see for themselves what they are missing by eating the other horrible stuff you can get a pot from Thorndon New world supermarket for about $5 (Can be bought else where if your lucky).
Also Our Mete is a registered trademark Of Unilever Bestfoods UK.


Craig

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Hi Craig

I am just up the way in Paraparaumu (that will get the "foreigner's" tongue tied /forums/images/icons/smile.gif), boat is in Wellington at Seaview - will see if any Our Mate around up here to give it a try, else will visit Thorndon to try the "real"stuff. Thanks.

John

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