OT - Marmite

I don't dislike them but I am pretty omnivorous, except where PB is concerned, I like the peanuts better.

Uh - wrong. The United States gave the world "grits". Sharon is new New Brunswick (Canada).

MargW

It might be the only way to make grits palatable, but why waste perfectly good Marmite? It would be better to put the gross peanut butter on the equally blah grits!!

Not he correct swirl, sniff and sip?? Just a gulp?

I do not like Marmite. I have never liked Marmite. Not even as gravy browning (nor do I like Bovril or Oxo. They all taste fake to me). Just as an aside, I once bought some Marmite for an American guest who wanted to try it. He didn't like it either, so it got pushed to the back of the pantry shelf. About five years later, I came across it. Unchanged. Not mouldy, not changed in texture, just exactly the same after five (or more) years sitting on the shelf.

OTOH, I do like peanut butter provided it is all-natural. The one easiest to find is by Smuckers, although when I lived in the North I was able to find a few other brands of all-natural. However, in this house we do not normally eat it with jelly. DH having first tasted it during WWII in a care package, but knowing nothing about it, his family ate it with a sprinkle of salt. Peanuts get salted, right? So, that is what he taught me after we came to this country. Peanut butter, stirred thoroughly upon first opening, then stored in the fridge to keep the oil well distributed, then spread on home-made whole wheat bread with a sprinkle of table salt. Delicious.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Lord, and t think came over here in 1961 to educate the colonials, as my younger brother put it!!!

Twiglets, dear Lucille are not now as tasty as they were. They really do look like little twigs, but the brown spots on them are Marmite. They accompany wine, booze or whatever is your evil. Here in the US we have all the pretzels and other filling, bland non-tasty stuff..but a twiglet or two, nibbled carefully gets that palate ready to appreciate whatever liquid you choose to imbibe!

A connoisseurs choice.

Gillian

I think I would rather eat salted pretzel sticks. Is Marmite like Bovril. If so, it's truly ich,ach,ptui? At least to my very American taste buds.

"LOLOLOL! I LOVE it - but, as the advert says - you either love it or hate it. It`s very similar to Australia`s Vegemite, but their`s is only for wusses - it`s not as strong as ours! It`s vary good for you though!

Pat

That's because vegemite is made from vegetable matter (god knows what to get the resultant black stuff) and Marmite is meat based. No Australian breakfast is really complete without toast and vegemite, but only a thin smear of it, not a slather like jam. That said my American born and living nephew will eat vegemite from a spoon, something that can only be described as an acquired taste.

Joanne (confirmed vegemite eater)

Email me...remember I will be a Newfie in reincarnation!

I must protest your slur against Sharon. They may do some strange things in New Brunswick, but grits are not among the sins that originate there. You need to point the finger considerably south for that. Once my brother was going to Nashville, and to make conversation with my elderly mum about that, I suggested he was likely having grits for breakfast. She said to me with great indignation "He will NOT---he stays in classy places when he travels."

Dawne

Smart girl cuz if you really want to barf up a lung .... Marmite is the answer.

Sharon (N.B.)

I tasted it on the tip of a knife and it was ghastly ... I don't even want to see it from a distance. Grits you say??? Isn't that a southern U.S. thingie? I've never had them.

Sharon (N.B.)

No - and no again. Man oh man, what do you do to get rid of the taste

- swallow Lysol?

Sharon (N.B.)

It would lift the lining off your stomach Girl!!

Sharon (N.B.)

Canada gave the world grits?

Elizabeth

Canada gave the world grits?

Elizabeth

Possibly long ago we snuck over the longest undefended border and hurled them as far away as we possibly could. Maybe Evangeline smuggled them south, or maybe the cow was just a decoy and Laura Secord dropped them off in an American camp. Good riddance, anyway.

Dawne

I tasted it on the tip of a knife and it was ghastly ... I don't even want to see it from a distance. Grits you say??? Isn't that a southern U.S. thingie? I've never had them.

Sharon (N.B.)

Grits are simply a tasteless plate of cornmeal cereal. It's white, it's often lumpy, it's very bland (read blech) and I don't like it. It definitely is a southern thing and I never tasted it till I moved to Florida. They often serve it with a white gravy that has chopped up sausage. It looks dreadful and it tastes worse.

I guess the closest taste would be farina, which I don't think has much of a taste either.

All of you who actually like Marmite, twigs and odd organ meats, plus all the other peculiar foods that have been mentioned here in the last few days, have the right to eat all those strange things, and you don't have to like yucky grits that come from the deep south, but you had better just keep your hands off my peanut butter.

There's nothing better as a snack then a peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich on toasted white bread. Ask any kid and they'll agree with me.

Lucille

"lucille" wrote

Whole wheat toast with peanut butter and some lovely clear honey is pretty great though. Dawne