Marmite

I use Tesco yeast extract, which is the closest that I’ve found to Marmite and it’s gluten free.

FannyCornforth

Callistemon
The lad here has really quick results, it happens almost immediately. It must be because it’s the end of the jar and has oxygenated (or something 🤔)

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I was waiting for the plate to smash!

We all love Marmite. I’ve just lugged some over to the USA for my son. I always wonder what they look like in my luggage on their X-rays - small bombs? 👀

We could only get Vegemite when we lived in Indonesia. It’s vile, I’d rather go without.

SueDonim - your comment about the bombs made me laugh, because it reminded me of the time my dad was asked to take a haggis down to London for a work colleague. My mum had wrapped it up securely in foil for him to put in his case - but this was at the height of the IRA bomb campaigns in London, so you can imagine the commotion it caused when his bag was searched on arrival at the station in London! Fortunately the haggis survived...

. Blondiescot!

You’ve reminded me that I also once took Christmas pudding to the US. That was rather bomb-like, too. I got hauled out of line to explain what exactly a Christmas pudding was to a ten-foot tall & broad security guard who had a rusty knife poised ready to plunge into my lovingly homemade pudding! 😱 After a grilling, I was finally allowed in.

FannyCornforth

I’ve got some truffle marmite at the moment and it’s absolutely delicious.
Like Aldom, I haven’t noticed any change. I’ve been eating it since the 80s.

Something I’ve just remembered.
Did you know that if, with a teaspoon, you repeatedly hit a smear of marmite on a plate, it turns white?
It’s absolutely true!
It takes a while, but it does

What’s on earth are you doing to discover that? I’ll have to try it .

paddyann54

I've never had Marmite but I've eaten Vegemite for 3 decades or more .Its Ausralian, a vegetarian product and I use it a lot on toast and in beef gravies for a bit of body .Worth a try if your Marmite is failing you .

We've not had either Marmite or Vegemite.

Vegemite sounds interesting. Thank you.

Molly I read something years and years ago about something called The Marmite Tappers Club. Someone like Willy Rushton was involved. Long before the internet.
Incredibly intrigued I had to try it! 🥄

Vegemite is lovely, it’s not as strong as Marmite, so you can have more of it! 😋
I haven’t tried tapping it though, now there’s a thought…

I can never really decide whether I like Marmite or not.
It’s a bit Marmite

Try the truffle marmite Foxy, it’s richer and not so salty.

I always put a spoonful in shepherd’s pie etc. My son was an avid marmite eater so grandma always kept a jar in for when we visited. One day grandad decided to try it and spread it very thickly on his toast ……………………. I will say no more!

I do that too, 25Avalon - in fact, I've just been making mince and tatties and put some Marmite in it because I didn't have any Bovril.

Oh dear - the irony seems to have been lost

Foxygloves

Oh dear - the irony seems to have been lost

Was that to me? I don’t usually lose irony

Apologies FannyC -my SOH can be a bit Marmite too.

That’s ok 🦊y, thank you for getting back to me (and the truffle marmite is really very nice ) x

I love Marmite with peanut butter on toast, so buy the large sizes. Do try it! I keep both tubs on a high shelf as they spread easier if they're warm.

Hetty58, have you ever tried the Marmite peanut butter?

I have a young relative who lived in Paris. He loves Marmite, but could not get it there. (This was a few years ago, so correct me if things have changed) After a visit to me I sent him home with two of the very large jars of Marmite. Customs confiscated it because it was classed as 'liquid'.
Later in the year, a friend who was crossing to France by ferry took the replacement Marmite over.

Avalon25’s experience of Marmite spread thickly reminds me of Mother in Law and the peanut butter. She gazed at it in disgust and said it was nothing like butter! Father in Law tasted it and agreed. It didn’t taste a bit like butter!

It’s def changed it’s consistency and doesn’t now spread well at all.We eat loads of it but now only spread it on hot toast, the only way not to get great blobs of it which are unspreadable.
The taste seems the same.It’s thicker so something’s changed.

Foxygloves

I can never really decide whether I like Marmite or not.
It’s a bit Marmite

😂

SueDonim

. Blondiescot!

You’ve reminded me that I also once took Christmas pudding to the US. That was rather bomb-like, too. I got hauled out of line to explain what exactly a Christmas pudding was to a ten-foot tall & broad security guard who had a rusty knife poised ready to plunge into my lovingly homemade pudding! 😱 After a grilling, I was finally allowed in.

I used to take Marmite to a sister in the US, and once had trouble explaining it what it was to the immigration chap. ‘Something you spread on toast.’

But he still looked bemused. ‘Like jam?’ (Not their usual word - AFAIK American jam is ‘jelly’.
‘Yes, a bit like jam,’ I said, thinking ‘Does it matter?’
He waved us through.

A different matter when ages ago, same sister and her bloke had a small, summer-season gift shop in Provincetown, a very touristy town in Cape Cod. At the time we were living in Oman, so she asked whether there was anything typically Omani we could bring for them to sell.

So I took a biggish bag of frankincense, which comes from a tree in the S of Oman, and which they sold by the kilo in the souk.
I declared it at immigration - wouldn’t have dared not to - the poor chap had no idea what to make of it. Despite the Wise Men associations, I don’t think he’d ever heard of frankincense. It looks a bit like large crystals of the brown coffee sugar you used to see sometimes.

I did explain as well as poss, but I swear he was wondering whether it was freeze-dried crack or something, but his eyes glazed over and eventually he waved us through - presumably for the sake of a quiet life!

Same here with Morrisons own brand

I’ve noticed it’s got very hard spread on buttered toast. I sometimes soften it in the microwave, which makes it easier to spread.