Marmite, Bovril, Colman's Sold to US Firm McCormick

April Fool?

Sadly seems to be true.

Yep it will soon taste rubbish like Cadburys does. I used to love Cadburys but now it is chocolate flavoured not actual chocolate.
I buy ‘actual’ chocolate from Lidl or Aldi, I believe is German chocolate.

True, Unilever have been trying to sell their food division for some time.

You can buy Marmite equivalents - supermarkets have their own brands. There's also the Australian Vegemite.

how long before the shops will be stocking vanilla-flavoured Marmite with pistachio sprinkles?
😂

It's not funny, though.

Why have they sold out I wonder? Will this firm, like Kraft/Mondelez, promise not to shut down operations here then immediately do so? I hope not.

that's a shame, I love Marmite

They better not mess with my Marmite - or there will be war! Vegemite is not the same at all.

Jennerdysphoria

You can buy Marmite equivalents - supermarkets have their own brands. There's also the Australian Vegemite.

They don’t taste the same, though. We’ve tried a number of equivalents and none matches the peerless Marmite.

Booo

I want marmite, proper marmite

Does anyone remember the champagne marmite?

Anniebach

I want marmite, proper marmite

You and me both, Anniebach! I may have to stockpile

ViceVersa

Anniebach

I want marmite, proper marmite

You and me both, Anniebach! I may have to stockpile

I'll be a front line "KEEP MARMITE" protester with you.

Usually American take overs have been the stuff of profit rather than taste. They buy up a best selling product and look at what they can achieve by adding more sugar instead of usual ingredients. American sweets are rubbish for the same reason.

I use the Aldi equivalent, which is almost the same, mainly because of the price.

The Americans definitely wrecked Cadbury's chocolate, but they also ruined Heinz Baked beans. I'm not a fan of marmite, not actually a hater but I really have to be in the mood for it. I wonder what Americans will think of Colman's mustard compared to their own weak version. Let's hope some of our artisan food producers will continue and grow and build up our once great food industry to what it once was.

When was it decided that anything had to be available for sale to anybody in the world regardless of what they intended to do with it? Shareholders obviously don’t care they just want the best price they can get other people have an interest too.

I’ve never found a suitable substitute for Marmite. None of them taste the same. Vegemite is horrid! Regarding Bovril, Morrisons do a very good own brand product which I buy all the time.

Stockpile before it is changed! It lasts forever.

My great grandfather sold all of his land in Thorpe St Andrew , Norwich to Colmans for mustard growing.
Just saying.

Greyduster

I’ve never found a suitable substitute for Marmite. None of them taste the same. Vegemite is horrid! Regarding Bovril, Morrisons do a very good own brand product which I buy all the time.

Agree. I remember the Vegemite we used to buy in South Africa, round about the late 60's. It was comparable to the Fray Bentos spread. But . . . I recently bought some Vegemite from the Oz Shop here in Germany, it tasted awful!! Simply smelling the "stuff" upon opening the jar was enough to put me off. My parcel from the Oz Shop was delivered by our DHL driver, coincidentally an australian. She was so excited that I had bought from her favourite shop, declared that she buys loads of Vegemite. Love it or hate it. It is sad that so many companies alter the recipe to suit their "budget". The recent debacle with Milka and Cadbury's proves it. Both were bought out by Mondelez.

Allira

Does anyone remember the champagne marmite?

Yes. I bought some. Still have the jar (I tend to keep nice jars). It was horrible. The whole point of Marmite is it that it’s savoury, not sweet!

Fallingstar

Yep it will soon taste rubbish like Cadburys does. I used to love Cadburys but now it is chocolate flavoured not actual chocolate.
I buy ‘actual’ chocolate from Lidl or Aldi, I believe is German chocolate.

Yes, the Aldi Chocolate is from Stollwerck, which now belongs to a Belgian firm, the Baronie Group., The Lidl chocolate is also from a german company, Ludwig/Trumpf, now belongs to the Krüger Group.