Dear Log,
Marmite is now a hundred years old. And as with anything that survives a century in good shape, I felt obliged to try it at least once. So I found a tiny little jar of it at the supahmarket, selling for about three times what it'd go for in the UK. I got it home, and spread it thinly on buttered toast. Mmmmm funky!
I get the impression it tastes different to everyone -- not surprising for a substance (industrially derived "yeast extract") that was not (not by a long shot!) on the menu of any of our primate/primitive hyoo-mon ancestors. Well, to me it tastes like beef gravy. People say "no, that's Bovril!". No, really, Marmite tastes to me like beef gravy.
In other news, the Guardian describes a real-life enactment of the play that would have been written if Beckett, Sartre, and Neil Simon had ever collaborated ... with the Taliban!
Beef gravy, eh? One time I had a cold and mistook a bowl of turkey gravy for a bowl of refried bean dip, eating about half the bowl along with a bag of chips.
Any comparisons between Marmite and Vegemite?
Re:Bizarre Foods
ziggy on 2002-01-08T14:07:14
Marmite, Promite and Vegemite are all roughly the same thing: a yeast extract (er, "brewery waste"). They're all rich in the B-vitamins (which makes them an excellent part of an effective hangover cure, along with copious amounts of water).Any comparisons between Marmite and Vegemite?I've got a jar of Marmite at home that I occasionally use. Truth be told, the three have a very similar taste, although Marmite is the least tasty of the three. I'd rank them as follows (mostly from memory):
That distinction may be moot, since all three have a taste similar to condensed solidified soy sauce.
- Vegemite
- Promite
- Marmite
:-) note to self: remember to take marmite and crackers next time you have a headache...
Re:Bizarre Foods
chaoticset on 2002-01-08T14:13:27
Great Chao, I'm just getting used to non-condensed *liquid* soy sauce...!I shall make sure to keep a one-hundred-foot distance between myself and any -mite substances, then.
