Re: Love It or Hate It?
Marmite is proof positive that "good" and "good for you" are two completely different things. Literally, the name means "kettle" or "cauldron", and the stuff originates from starving people scraping the bottom of the kettle after the beer's open fermentation was done (and the precious liquid casked) -- the hope being that some of the grainy goodness of the barley would be still be there -- and predates deliberate manufacture by some centuries. Yes, it does contain B vitamins and some proteins (and still provides the "flavour" in multivitamin tablets), but it's no longer the only source. What remains today is a wartime habit.
I suppose that Marmite does have one redeeming quality in the modern world, that being that it is not Vegemite. As near as I can figure it, Vegemite arose out of Australian colonial defiance -- a way of telling the Poms that they couldn't be frightened, oppressed or controlled by the threat of forced Marmite imports as they were already willing to voluntarily consume something even worse.
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Originally Posted by carl6969
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