Marmite Closes M1 ...

[ahinton]

Burton on Trent is a major producer of Beer - marmite is just the dregs left over of the dead yeast whose taste is hidden by a totally unhealthy amount of salt - quite why it is thought good for kids defeats me.

I'd occasionally wondered why it's so repellent, so I'm grateful to you for your elucidation! That said, to my trio of solid foodstuffs that are the very opposite off Desert Island choices, I might well have added beer of all kinds as a liquid one (I simply cannotg abide the stuff) and, though I'm now given to wonder whether this may be due at least in part to the involvement of yeast therein, I'm not about to put that to the test...

[PatrickOD]

Intriguing. I'm not a gourmet by any means - plain and unadventurous to a fault - but I'm searching for a seasoning. I've tried many sauces, spices and flavours from everywhere. I've never tried Marmite. Could Marmite be my holy grail? Is it any good with fish?

[Serial_Apologist]

Intriguing. I'm not a gourmet by any means - plain and unadventurous to a fault - but I'm searching for a seasoning. I've tried many sauces, spices and flavours from everywhere. I've never tried Marmite. Could Marmite be my holy grail? Is it any good with fish?

Hmmm. I should have tried it with my sardines on toast this lunchtime.

[mercia]

a useful source of folic acid (if you're anaemic)

[Anna]

Relatively few foodstuffs are really utter anathema to me, but my total horrors comprises marmite/vegemite, goat's cheese (yes, even Welsh goat's cheese!) !

Amazing, how anyone can dismiss goat's cheese. OK, they are pretty stinky as animals and have eyes that have horizonatal pupils (mark of the Devil) but their cheese is so white, so pure, so, absolutely delicious. Yet, you will be happy to eat Camembert, matured in a farmyard dung heap?

[Serial_Apologist]

A friend of mine started rearing goats. "I want to sell the milk, and maybe make cheese", he told me; "what name do you think I should give the company?" "Unigoat?", I suggested. "No Butts" was his instant reply.

[Mary Chambers]

I love Marmite, and ate Marmite sandwiches just about every day when I was a teenager. I don't think anyone knew salt was bad for you then. What's it supposed to do? Is it something to do with blood pressure? My blood pressure's fine. (I know, a sample of one doesn't make for a scientific test.)

If it wasn't really Marmite that closed the motorway, I shall be very disappointed.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oh Mary Chambers the notion of the 'real' Marmite is troublesome ..... ownership and recipes have ..ahem altered over time .... so the substance on the M1 might be really Marmite or might not, but we could spend an eternity determining what the 'real' Marmite is or was or might be etc .....

[Serial_Apologist]

oh Mary Chambers the notion of the 'real' Marmite is troublesome ..... ownership and recipes have ..ahem altered over time .... so the substance on the M1 might be really Marmite or might not, but we could spend an eternity determining what the 'real' Marmite is or was or might be etc .....

...and still come to a sticky end...

[Anna]

I love Marmite, and ate Marmite sandwiches just about every day when I was a teenager. I don't think anyone knew salt was bad for you then. What's it supposed to do? Is it something to do with blood pressure?

Yes Mary. Salt raises blood presure. But, if, like me, you do not use salt at home and resist foods like crisps or salted nuts or processed (my BP is 120/70, gosh, how perfect) then you can have a scrape of Marmite on a daily basis without feeling guilty. So, Enjoy! Just steer (PUN!) clear of Bovril. It tastes horrible.

[ahinton]

Amazing, how anyone can dismiss goat's cheese. OK, they are pretty stinky as animals and have eyes that have horizonatal pupils (mark of the Devil) but their cheese is so white, so pure, so, absolutely delicious. Yet, you will be happy to eat Camembert, matured in a farmyard dung heap?

Oh, but I do not dismiss goat's cheese at all; I merely dislike it intensely! And, since you ask, I'm no great fan of camembert either, as it happens. Now, Devon Oke, Dorset blue vinny, Montgomery cheddar and many others are cheeses that I'd happily Gorwydd (sorry!).

[ahinton]

Yes Mary. Salt raises blood presure. But, if, like me, you do not use salt at home and resist foods like crisps or salted nuts or processed (my BP is 120/70, gosh, how perfect) then you can have a scrape of Marmite on a daily basis without feeling guilty. So, Enjoy! Just steer (PUN!) clear of Bovril. It tastes horrible.

Well, I do use salt at home (albeit with some care), I rarely eat crisps (unless they're the ubiquitous Tyrrell's!), never touch salted nuts and try to avoid processed most things, don't worry unduly about fatty foods from time to time as long as they're fresh rather than pre-prepared and packaged and my BP's usually not all that far from yours, but the fact that, as you suggests, this means that I could have a scrape of Marmite daily without feeling guilty cuts no ice whatsoever with me because I couldn't in any case have one without feeling sick!

Agreed with you about Bovril, though!

[Mary Chambers]

I don't use salt at home except with eggs.

Love crisps but very rarely eat them. Salted nuts, never.

I rarely eat cheese, which I imagine is usually very salty as well as being very fatty.

[PatrickOD]

I won't bother trying it then.

[Bryn]

Dissolved in hot water, salt makes an excellent [very salty] gargle for a sore throat. as well. Like Marmite it also makes a loathsome drink.