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Marmite!
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Apparently you either love it or loathe it.
Anyone here got any strong feelings about it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I wouln't eat M until I got married. My ex requested it be included in the shopping. I tried it a few times and was quickly converted to M on toast and Ryvita. I had to lay off yeast a couple of years back, but I eat it again occasionally, spread sparingly. Is it on sale in foreign parts, I wonder, not just for ex-pats but do other nations take to it?
Years ago (in the Cold War age) we sent a jar of Marmite, amongst other food products to a Russian contact living in Moscow who has since become a good frien when food was in short supply there.. We were trying to introduce him to some of the quintessentially aspects of British life. He and his family were absolutely bemused by it. They weren't sure whether they were supposed to eat it or whether it was some kind of glue (since sellotape was unotainable in the Soviet Union at the time !), . I don't think they ever found the courage to try it and when he subsequently visited us in England and actually saw it on our breakfast table, only then did he truly believe that it was a "real" food and that we hadn't been trying to poison them all ! We have often laughed about it since. Peanut butter was another product that they also found totally mystifying.