Foodstuffs which individually are fine, but should never be paired

[barakta]

Kim and I both detest marmite 

[jsabine]

Kim and I both detest marmite 

I'd always had you down as people of taste and discernment, and this merely confirms it.

The stuff's vile.

[hellymedic]

I can tolerate Marmite but I don't like it.

[citoyen]

Marmite is a bit like marmite - you either love it or hate it or you don't mind it.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Did someone mention Marmite?


Can I remind all that the thread title included the words which individually are fine...

Marmite does not fulfil that definition 

I think people only pretend to like Marmite, just to seem hard. It's like pretending to like drinking until you are sick or something. Actually I think I'd rather do that than eat marmite (and I really, really really hate being sick).

[ian]

I don't immediately die if I eat marmite. But I don't see why I'd want to eat it. It's just salty meh. Or as a friend of mine once loudly announced: 'it tastes like cum' before realising what she'd just said to a tableful of people she barely knew. Wedding receptions, eh. Could have been worse, it might have been a bar mitzvah.

[Legs]

Could have been worse, it might have been a bar mitzvah.

It might have been her bat mitzvah 

[citoyen]

Can I remind all that the thread title included the words which individually are fine...

Marmite does not fulfil that definition 

It's just salty meh. Or as a friend of mine once loudly announced: 'it tastes like cum' before realising what she'd just said to a tableful of people she barely knew.

To be fair, I don't think Marmite is meant to be eaten individually - unlike peanut butter, which is at its best consumed straight from the jar with a spoon. The saltiness is the very raison d'etre of Marmite - it's more of a seasoning than a main ingredient, akin to Worcestershire sauce. Poached eggs on toast, for example, are immeasurably improved by a thin smear of Marmite on the toast, but layer it on too thick and you render the whole dish inedible.

Cum may well taste the same as Marmite but it has a very different consistency and would just make the toast soggy. Which might be acceptable in British public schools but not on my breakfast table, thank you.

[pcolbeck]

Your right the thing with Marmite is to spread it very thinly. One of the funniest things I ever saw was a German couple in a hotel at breakfast. The lady had picked up several of those individual portions of Marmite examined them curiously then spread it about a 1/4 an inch thick on bread and gave it to her husband to eat. I think she thought it was an English version of Nutella. His face was a picture when he bit into the bread. the whole thing was like watching a slow motion car crash.

[Tim Hall]

Broccoli with anything.

Or on its own.

A mutant vegetable, according to The Boy.

[ian]

All vegetables are horrific mutants to everyone but the anti-GM brigade, who seem to think they're natural, unadulterated expressions of mother nature's bounty.

[Mr Larrington]

To be fair, I don't think Marmite is meant to be eaten individually - unlike peanut butter, which is at its best consumed straight from the jar with a spoon.

ISTR those wacky japesters at Park Tool made one of their sturdy offerings with a handle specifically designed for the transfer of peanut butter from jar to gob of oily spanner-monkey.

[Jurek]

@citoyen & @pcolbeck:
Marmite.
Thin. Yes. (in a Don Logan kind of way).
Poached eggs on toast are a regular treat in my local greasy spoon at the weekend.
Usually with lashings of ketchup.
I'll give the thin Marmite thing a go.
I confess to preferring Vegemite.
Marmite makes an awful, and difficult-to-clean-off mess, if you smear it on the windscreen of a car.
DAHIKT.

[Legs]

I confess to preferring Vegemite.

That is wrong.  You are wrong.  Vegemite is an abomination. 
Bovril is where it's at. 

[caerau]

Awesome I've derailed this into a marmite hate-fest - 


as you were.

[barakta]

 

[ElyDave]

I confess to preferring Vegemite.

That is wrong.  You are wrong.  Vegemite is an abomination. 
Bovril is where it's at. 

but only in a mug (and no, I don't mean the person drinking it)

[Jurek]

I confess to preferring Vegemite.

That is wrong.  You are wrong.  Vegemite is an abomination. 
Bovril is where it's at. 

but only in a mug (and no, I don't mean the person drinking it)

One step away from an oxo cube....
And Linda Bellingham...

[ian]

Well, if someone wants to do a taste test between marmite, vegemite, bovril and male bodily fluids, they should go ahead and report back. Sounds like a 1950's public school Wednesday night.

[L CC]

Well, if someone wants to do a taste test between marmite, vegemite, bovril and male bodily fluids, they should go ahead and report back. Sounds like a 1950's public school Wednesday night.

Been there, done that.

It wasn't a blind taste test, mind.

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[Jurek]

Well, if someone wants to do a taste test between marmite, vegemite, bovril and male bodily fluids, they should go ahead and report back. Sounds like a 1950's public school Wednesday night.

Been there, done that.

It wasn't a blind taste test, mind.

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'Shoptastic! 

[L CC]

Not at all. No 'shopping involved. A gift from No1Daughter.

[Jurek]

Not at all. No 'shopping involved. A gift from No1Daughter.

Kudos! To No 1 dot. 

[ian]

It is marmite in the jars isn't it? When I see a person's name on the jar and the words 'yeast extract' I do so worry. Though I suppose it might explain the taste.

[Karla]

Tea and coffee.