Therefore, I'm wondering how Marmite can claim to be 100% Vegetarian.
Aren't we eating a product made from our own distant ancestors?
What could be LESS Veggie than that!
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I just had to check the label on the salty Australian rival, Vegemite, and it makes no such hippy claims. I also noted that it is once again Australian-owned, having rather contentiously fallen into the hands of an American Big Food company for a few years where they actually attempted to fiddle with the ingredients - sacré bleu! - to get it to go “off” sooner in order that customers buy more of it more often. As eny fule kno, these things have a half-life of around a generation...Good to see the world is as it should be again, vegetarian or not.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to look again to see if there's an 'eat by' date on Marmite. I quite like Vegemite, but much prefer Marmite.
DeleteCows are vegetarian. I eat cow so I am vegetarian.
ReplyDeleteVery true!
DeleteAnd then there is Bovril, all dark and gooey. I put a half spoon of marmite in my gravy along with other goodies and people love it. Always called it a vegetarian gravy, not sure we are eating our ancestors, after all we are close to the intelligent pig/boar as well.
ReplyDeleteAs a child I loved Bovril soup when I was ill. It always seemed to make me better.
DeleteLove it or hate it? I'm on the fence.
ReplyDeleteI fall on the 'love' side. Always have done.
DeleteI'm stuck on the DNA similarity. Yeast and humans? What the hell were our origins. A speck of alien astro dust. And we ended up eating ourselves!
ReplyDeleteMeant where did we ALL come from, Adam and Eve, monkeys, yeast.....all sentient beings?
DeleteI have it on authority that we are distant relations of Yeast. Occasionally I can even see my resemblance!
Deletesome people are pure fungus
DeleteOr Bogeymen.
Delete'In the event of my death, tuck in.' (David Mitchell).
ReplyDeleteI'd rather feed the worms.
DeleteDisgusting muck and terribly inferior to our Vegemite. I thought my early ancestors were slime.
ReplyDeleteIn Oz's case; slime = Vegemite!
DeleteDon't care what's in it - nobody shall separate me from my marmite toast for breakfast and my bovril gravy.
ReplyDeleteMe too; me and Marmite are like twins!
DeleteI've never eaten it.
ReplyDeleteAbout time you did; but beware, it's addictive.
DeleteWe were a Bovril family.
DeleteWe were both. One of my favourite childhood foods was Toast with really good Beef dripping, and Bovril. Even thinking about it makes me hungry.
DeleteI loved beef dripping. One of the delights of a Monday was the beef dripping from the Sunday joint. I do miss it.
DeleteYou now have to be very rich to afford the sort of Beef joints we had every Sunday.
DeleteI tasted Marmite once.
ReplyDeleteEnough said. No everyone likes it.
DeleteIn my youth when I cooked for myself I used to prepare and actually eat sliced bread (brown) smeared with Marmite and topped with those skinless plum tomatoes that come in a can. It wasn't too bad actually.
ReplyDeleteEach element individually is fine, it's the combination I find a bit 'unusual'.
DeleteI've never had the opportunity to taste Marmite. I wonder if I'd like it!
ReplyDeleteProbably not Jennifer, it might come as a bit of a shock. You need to be brought up with it. It's VERY salty.
DeleteThe relationship with yeast might explain my tendency to blow up occasionally.
ReplyDeleteOr to ferment?
DeleteGood point. We are star dust, and we are yeast.
ReplyDeleteAnd partly Amoeba.
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