Marmite, do you love it or hate it

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:26

I am totally addicted! and have been since I was tiny! just watching it spread on my toast makes me go weak at the knees. I take it on holiday and even took it on my honeymoon! even if it wasn't good for me (vitB) I would still eat it! My son got a limited edition Marmite with Champagne!!!!!! for when I was last in the UK "heaven" mmmm x

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:27

Had this posting a while back and yes i love it

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:30

Hate it - but i bet the mozzie's leave you alone Everon!

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:35

yes they do! my husband gets bitten!!! he doesn't like marmite!!

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:46

it's all that Vit B you see!

elkiton



Joined: 15/03/2009
Posts: 514

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 10:52

Love it, on soldiers for breakfast every day. Friend brought back a 1/2Kilo pot from UK....sigh.... makes a lovely kitchen ornament.....Wife hates the taste and smell, she says it makes a good contraceptive lol

TonyE

Whistler


Joined: 28/07/2008
Posts: 1332

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 11:57

Love it. Like you have been eating marmite every day since a toddler (long time) However, I do get bitten but maybe not quite so badly as I would without the marmite.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:03

I hate it only tasted it once and can even recall the smell. Also hate Bovril or anything like that.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:15

Love it - add it to stews and mince as well as on toast with cheddar melted on top.



I remember tasting Vegemite - I believe; the Australian version - it was like eating melted candles - revolting.......

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:29

"Marmite, do you love it or hate it".

1: This fascinating question, so strongly related to (Northern) Cyprus, has been thoroughly discussed on bulletin boards 5, 4, 3 and 2 years ago. 2 : I find it hard to believe that someone bothered to start up the computer to write this question! Just my opinion of course...

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:35

Kiwis prefer their own brand - 'Vegemite'!



Available @ New Zealand House in the Haymarket - taste the difference, then bin yer 'Marmite'!

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 12:38

Do twiglets taste of Marmite?

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:02

Yes Stgeorge1, they do

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:09

Now i like twiglets - but i don't like marmite!!! ;o)

simbas



Joined: 16/07/2007
Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:43

That is really strange !

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:54

my sister worked in the twiglet zone, at Jacobs factory, so I got loads of cheap marmite fixes, straight from the factory mmmmmmmmmm x

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 13:57

hate, hate, hate, hate...yukky stuff

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 19:53

Tenakoutou, I have tried vegemite, its ok, but not half as good as marmite xx

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 20:31

Love it....................but don't like Twiglets. Hubby likes Twiglets but hates Marmite.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 20:38

I hate avocados, but i love guacamole....weird!





DD

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 20:46

The final words in this thread (I don't think so): I love tulip bulbs, which I had to eat when I was two years of age (1945). Do you love 'em or hate 'em?

measey


Joined: 07/02/2009
Posts: 1037

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:22

hate it . hooked on olives.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:25

measey - hate olives.



Hans - never tried them. I have read many books about WW2 with this fact - I'm assuming it's correct then?



PS I'm not being flippant



J

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:31

1945,wasn't that the year the British liberated Holland?

Tulip bulbs indeed.You should have had Farleys rusks like other 2 year olds did.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 21:39

Hate Marmite. Grandchildren love it though! Yuk!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 22:01

RE msg 23: (...) Hans - never tried them. I have read many books about WW2 with this fact - I'm assuming it's correct then? (...)

=> It is, Jeannie. During the last weeks of the Second World War the western part of my native country was starving (after the disastrous error the Allied Command, Eisenhower, made: listening to Field Marshall Montgomery, who hadn't done his home work. Result: thousands of British, American, Polish and Dutch casualties around Arnhem and elsewhere). Thousands of dead people in the streets of all cities in Holland. No coffins anymore. Etc. The last possibility: eat what could be eaten (and get sick after a couple of days). And then the Allied bombers came to Holland, after the surrender of the Germans, to bomb the country with Swedish white bread. My parents never stopped talking about the Canadian forces liberating Amsterdam.

laptagal


Joined: 28/05/2008
Posts: 549

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 22:35

Love, love love it. Also was diagnosed as having a B12 deficiency so now have a perfect excuse to have it every day, for medicinal purposes. Husband can't stand the stuff - opposites attract, so they say.

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
08/12/2009 22:39

Sorry, Marmite def. Yuk!



DC it must have been awful to be so hungry that eating flower bulbs was the only option. Thankfully you have survived to tell the tale.

Aussie


Joined: 17/06/2007
Posts: 657

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 01:45

Its Ok but Vegemite is much better and massively outsells it in Australia where you can get both in most supermarkets etc.



Aussie

taraspring


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 571

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 02:00

I lovvvvvvvvvvvvvve marmite.

And now for that other huge debate on love/hate foods

Do you like or dislike stilton?

Tx

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 02:03

Message 26 - Thank you, Hans



J

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 02:39

Message 30 - both of us absolutlely love it.



Try it in mushrooms, with some bacon (cooked, of course, lovey).



J

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
09/12/2009 08:39

I am with ST George love twiglets hate marmite ............ now we know what went wrong with dutch !!!

carollynne


Joined: 19/11/2009
Posts: 128

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 16:16

Always loved marmite, especially now there's a squeezy jar available



Carollynne

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 16:31

How about Rademaker's Echte Haagsche Hopjes?

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 16:40

That one has stunned them all into silence Hans.

baldeagle


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 354

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 17:28

Haagsche Hopjes are hard coffee flavored candies with the taste of coffee. Yummie!!



I bought some of these a few years ago in Rotterdam and got hooked on them so i took home as many as i could carry but have to say not had them for a long time. lol

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 17:43

RE msg 37, baldeagle: NEVER EVER mention the word Rotterdam to someone from Amsterdam (a first basic lesson for immigrants in Holland)...

P.S. Indeed I was born in Amsterdam.

P.P.S. You have a very good taste for top-sweets - your only problem is that a tin with Haagsche Hopjes is standing next to my computer right now.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 17:49

Baldeagle: If you visit the Lambousa market (Lapta) this Saturday you can collect a couple of Haagsche Hopjes at our stall (Medieval Cyprus Fellowship). Ask my wife Trix for them. And bring your passport to ID yourself, because I don't trust the British on this board...

Poppy2010


Joined: 15/11/2009
Posts: 31

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 18:02

Marmite, vegemite, twiglets, olives, stilton, Haagsche Hopjes .... now it's Christmas!!! Add a teaspoon of marmite to the meat juices and you have the most fabulous gravy or 'jus' in seconds! ... go on, be daring, you know you just have to try it!

baldeagle


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 354

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 18:16

Hans Thank you very much i shall take my passport as im sure somewhere it says baldeagle in it ha ha

I have also been to Amsterdam and had a wonderful weekend sightseeing a truly beautiful city and i keep promising to take my missus, perhaps another one on the list for next year.



They are also selling stollen cake in Tempo which is another of my favourites.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 18:32

RE msg 41, baldeagle: (...) They are also selling stollen cake in Tempo which is another of my favourites. (...)

=> Ha! I'm sorry to hear that you found them also! We've bought some already and enjoyed them. They are not as good as the Dutch variety but they are not bad, considering the fact that the maker, Lidl, is Germany based...

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 18:43

This is such a nice thread - after someone diverted the subject from Marmite to Haagsche Hopjes...

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 20:27

Love Marmite especially on hot, buttered toast. But disagree with Carolynne (msg 34) about the squeezy bottle. Bought one once and it was a complete disaster. The bottle gets all distorted and after a while you have to wrestle the marmite out with a knife. A lovely big glass jar is much much better

carollynne


Joined: 19/11/2009
Posts: 128

Message Posted:
10/12/2009 23:05

Noooooo its so cool, no messy knives and no crumbs left in the marmite jar lol ;-)



Carollynne

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
11/12/2009 00:40

Glad to hear that Hans admits Holland was liberated by other Nations, in his case the Canadians. Will the Dutch ever be able to defend it's own borders without relying on other Countries to prop up it's terrority? I suppose Indonesia was easy pickings for them!



Richard

nannycyprus


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
11/12/2009 09:00

I hate Marmite completely!!!! Although, I have 3 daughters who all LOVE IT and so do my 4 Grandchildren!