Marmite

[Huxley]

So how many of you foreign types have tried the wonders of this stuff, personally i can't get enough of it and now there's extra strong im in heaven.

Vegemite is similar but not as strong.

Anyone else love it?

[mook]

yep its why i believe there may just be a god.

[jeltz]

mmmmmm love it :thumbup1:

[Pumpkin]

Love it! :thumbup: (although I'm not one of the "foreign types" :lol:)

Converted the wife too....she'd never even tried it before we met...she eats more than I do now :001_smile

[Rughi]

I keep one each on hand of:

Vegemite (Aussie)
Marmite (English)
Bovril (Irish)

Bovril is the only one that oozes. I prefer Vegemite of the group.
I wonder if any other former colonies of Britannia have a version of this great brewery-waste product.



Roger

[galopede]

I keep one each on hand of:

Vegemite (Aussie)
Marmite (English)
Bovril (Irish)

Bovril is the only one that oozes. I prefer Vegemite of the group.
I wonder if any other former colonies of Britannia have a version of this great brewery-waste product.



Roger

If anything, Bovril is Scottish. Invented by the Scot John Lawson Johnston and called Johnston's Fluid Beef in 1871, renamed as Bovril in 1886. It is a beef extract, though does contain yeast extract. No Irish in its history.

Also I love Marmite but also prefer the Australian Vegemite.

Gareth

[Leche]

I quite enjoy it.

[holiday]

I love marmite, once I start eating it on toast with butter I can't stop

[djh]

I grew up eating Vegemite and still love it. It is one of the first things on my shopping list when I head back to Australia.

[CitizenDan]

Love it! Especially on toasted english muffin with melted cheese :001_tt1:

[dannywonderful]

If anything, Bovril is Scottish. Invented by the Scot John Lawson Johnston and called Johnston's Fluid Beef in 1871, renamed as Bovril in 1886. It is a beef extract, though does contain yeast extract. No Irish in its history.

Also I love Marmite but also prefer the Australian Vegemite.

Gareth

What about this one? :wink2:

http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp77/dannywonderful/marmiteGuinness.jpg

[SHarris]

Hate it

love it

hate it

love it

hate it

love it

[Rughi]

If anything, Bovril is Scottish. Invented by the Scot John Lawson Johnston and called Johnston's Fluid Beef in 1871, renamed as Bovril in 1886. It is a beef extract, though does contain yeast extract. No Irish in its history.

Also I love Marmite but also prefer the Australian Vegemite.

Gareth

Well, I don't want to step on your national pride.

The jar I have lists Dublin, Ireland and Crawley UK. You came on so strong I looked it up in wikipedia and read that it was a vegan product between 2004 and 2006. Maybe my jar was from that era.

Roger

[Silk]

Here in South Africa, we have Marmite (great stuff, I have to admit) and Bovril (Eeeeeh… not so much). We also used to have another similar black sticky stuff called Fray-Bentos, which I used to have a serious love-hate relationship with (haven't seen it for years though).


I keep one each on hand of:

Vegemite (Aussie)
Marmite (English)
Bovril (Irish)

Bovril is the only one that oozes. I prefer Vegemite of the group.
I wonder if any other former colonies of Britannia have a version of this great brewery-waste product.



Roger

[Unknownsoldier]

Marmite, is totally different to Bovril and yewuch Vege-junk.... neither will even get a look in my cupboards....

There is:

Marmite - original,
Double matured,
Guinness,
Champagne :D

We also get marmite ricew cakes, breadsticks cheesy crackers and others :D I prefer it straight from the jar with a spoon or in hot water, great when fishing, carp and barbel love it too if you roll your boilies in it.....

[Rughi]

...There is:

Marmite - original,
Double matured,
Guinness,
Champagne :D

We also get marmite ricew cakes, breadsticks cheesy crackers and others :D I prefer it straight from the jar with a spoon or in hot water, great when fishing, carp and barbel love it too if you roll your boilies in it.....

Brilliant! I don't know what all that means, and I fear for my boilies, but Brilliant nevertheless!

Roger

[Tony_B]

Marmite on toast :drool:

[Unknownsoldier]

Brilliant! I don't know what all that means, and I fear for my boilies, but Brilliant nevertheless!

Roger

LOL :D

Tom

[rm71]

Vegemite wins hands down!

[Mr. Imperial]

After living in Australia for a year and a half, I determined that Vegemite was merely an excuse for Aussies to eat more butter :lol: :lol: :lol:

[OldSaw]

I was checking this out at the grocery store just a little while ago, mostly to show my wife that it was yeast extract, which she seemed not to believe. I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I put it back on the shelf.

They only had Marmite, no Vegemite.

[Unknownsoldier]

I was checking this out at the grocery store just a little while ago, mostly to show my wife that it was yeast extract, which she seemed not to believe. I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I put it back on the shelf.

They only had Marmite, no Vegemite.

Toast - butter - Marmite

Jar - spoon - mouth

Vegemite, yeuchhhhhh, sorry, never gonna win :D

Tom

[Luc]

Tried it and can't eat the stuff... Then I got @#$@# from the co-workers as I was told I didn't know how to do it like a real Aussie... Meh... MAPLE SYRUP!! :biggrin:

[rm71]

Tried it and can't eat the stuff... Then I got @#$@# from the co-workers as I was told I didn't know how to do it like a real Aussie... Meh... MAPLE SYRUP!! :biggrin:

Darn, forgot to tell Luc that eating spoonfulls of Vegemite is part of the initiation ceremony for the GSL group:lol:

[Luc]

Darn, forgot to tell Luc that eating spoonfulls of Vegemite is part of the initiation ceremony for the GSL group:lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'll do it if we do a drinking contest with maple syrup!

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t127/anthonyjh63/SuperTroopers.jpg?t=1268638395

[Huxley]

Well i know what im having for brekkie this morning. :tongue_sm

Edit: Now having some marmite extra strong on a nice chunky bit of white, damn this is lovely stuff with butter underneath i should have tried it sooner. :001_tt1:

Herbie our african grey loves the stuff too. :lol:

[galopede]

Well, I don't want to step on your national pride.

The jar I have lists Dublin, Ireland and Crawley UK. You came on so strong I looked it up in wikipedia and read that it was a vegan product between 2004 and 2006. Maybe my jar was from that era.

Roger

Sorry if it sounded coming on strong. Wasn't meant to. (I'm not much of a smiley user!:001_smile)

It went to totally yeast extract when the BSE scare was at it's height. I think it has a bit of beef extract in it again these days.

The marmite with Guinness was quite tasty, as was the one with champagne, though my jury is still out on the champers one!

[DFrancis]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I'll do it if we do a drinking contest with maple syrup!

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t127/anthonyjh63/SuperTroopers.jpg?t=1268638395

Didn't the Canadian ski jumpers loose a bet and have to each drink a bottle of maple syrup? I could think of worst things to have to do.

[Luc]

Didn't the Canadian ski jumpers loose a bet and have to each drink a bottle of maple syrup? I could think of worst things to have to do.

Maybe, I don't know... It's not so bad but the first time you drink one... You run down the street and it's nothing! :tongue_sm

[thunderball]

Like em both thinly spread on toast with butter. Yum. :thumbup1:

[mdunn]

Vegemite wins hands down!

too right!

I have it VERY thick

[The Nid Hog]

The jar I have lists Dublin, Ireland and Crawley UK.

Crawley? So the same town gives us a notable yeast extract and The Cure?

[Lynchmeister]

So...what's the stuff taste like?

[Unknownsoldier]

So...what's the stuff taste like?

Heaven!


Seriously, I wonder if it ciuld be called umami?

Tom

[Luc]

So...what's the stuff taste like?

To my un-refined palate, it's like very salty and thick molasse... It's not that exactly but it should give you an idea... I can send you a jar if you want to but I'm not responsible is you puke!:001_rolle

[Rughi]

So...what's the stuff taste like?

Have you ever tasted the sediment that sometimes is at the bottom of a beer bottle - notably a hefeweizen, a bottle-conditioned Belgian or a homebrew? That powerful but delicious sludge is the essence of what Marmite/Vegemite/Bovril are. I've been told that in Germany pregnant women traditionally drank the beer sediment for its nutrients, but can't comment further on that.

Perhaps its most common usage really is as a vehicle for increased butter usage on toast. It's certainly delicious that way.

Roger

[DougK]

So...what's the stuff taste like?
I'd have to go with "nasty and non-food" if it's anything like Vegemite. I ate it once and will never do it again.

[Carlin]

had a jar of marmite in the fridge, tried it with butter and toast, and uhh....

[Lynchmeister]

To my un-refined palate, it's like very salty and thick molasse... It's not that exactly but it should give you an idea... I can send you a jar if you want to but I'm not responsible is you puke!:001_rolle

:laugh: I'll save you the postage. I'm able to find it locally, so if curiosity get's the best of me...


Heaven!


Seriously, I wonder if it ciuld be called umami?

Tom


I'd have to go with "nasty and non-food" if it's anything like Vegemite. I ate it once and will never do it again.

One of the great, polarizing food stuffs! :lol:


Have you ever tasted the sediment that sometimes is at the bottom of a beer bottle - notably a hefeweizen, a bottle-conditioned Belgian or a homebrew? That powerful but delicious sludge is the essence of what Marmite/Vegemite/Bovril are. I've been told that in Germany pregnant women traditionally drank the beer sediment for its nutrients, but can't comment further on that.

Perhaps its most common usage really is as a vehicle for increased butter usage on toast. It's certainly delicious that way.

Roger

Interesting! Hefeweizen happens to be my favorite style of beer, so I'm familiar with the yeast sediment. Something tells me that Marmite/Vegamite may be a bit more...in your face?

:lol:

I may just have to drop the $4 and pick up a jar. Who knows, I may love the stuff.

[misterrachel]

Love vegemite, but can't seem to find it here in the US most of the time...but, I love marmite too, so it's all good.

[Mr Nozzle]

if you pat the marmite it turns white, honestly :001_tt1:

[Unknownsoldier]

I enjoy the marmite cereal bars, basically muesli and marmite YAY!!!!! I love the stuff, it is a total staple of my diet, the GF even has a Marmite Cookbook!!!!!! I could never date a Girl who didn't like it, it's that serious..... he says sitting wearing a Guinness hat and sucking on a pipe... :D

Tom

Famous Quote; Watson Bring me my 12 Bore Meerschaum!

[Rughi]

...Interesting! Hefeweizen happens to be my favorite style of beer, so I'm familiar with the yeast sediment. Something tells me that Marmite/Vegamite may be a bit more...[I]in your face?

If you try Marmite or one of the others on buttered toast, spread it as thinly as you possibly can. Think of it as a salt spread, not a jam, to get the right proportion.

My mom, who had a bit of mischievous little girl in her throughout her life, had an eye opening introduction to Vegemite. I had come back from living in Italy with a stash of the hazelnut spread/dessert Nutella. She found she loved, loved, loved the Nutella on toast, in a pbj, and even on its own. One day she spied what to her looked like another brand of Nutella in my kitchen and gleefully grabbed it with an expectation of sweet, nutty goodness. I cried out "Mom, Noooooooo" but with a schoolgirl's giggle popped a heaping fingerful into her mouth. Her sense of conquest quickly turned with her smirk into a pucker of disgust and her eyes slitted into an accusation of utter betrayal of what I had done to her. She lost a little trust in my kitchen that day...

Roger

[OldSaw]

So...what's the stuff taste like?

My youngest one's latest response to this question is"A$$". She even said something my wife put in the refrigerator made the whole thing smell like A$$. I quickly said to my wife, "Why'd you put Alex in there?". Alex is daughters boyfriend and if looks could kill...