Dear Fred:
I woke up this morning, put on my slippers and headed upstairs to make my first cup of morning coffee.
I decided to make some toast to go with it. On the toast, I spread a very (wafer) thin layer of Marmite.
I took a bite and tasted it.
I then tossed the piece of toast with Marmite into the garbage and made a new piece of toast. On that piece of toast, I spread butter and then drizzled some honey on it.
I ate the whole thing.
Thus ends the Marmite era of my existance.
Thank you -
Lisa
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12:35 pm on November 10th, 2004
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
I guess it tasted so good that you couldn’t face another bite so you had to replace it with bland old honey…..:smile:
Oh well I guess Chris will be pleased he doesn’t have to share, I have to hide my “British” food.
2:29 pm on November 10th, 2004
Oh yes, Chris has no worries about having to share his Marmite lol
2:43 pm on November 10th, 2004
perhaps you will like the black pudding better, what’s you address?
2:55 pm on November 10th, 2004
Aww, for a minute there, Fred, I thought you were talking about blood pudding.
I love my Irish breakfasts.
3:10 pm on November 10th, 2004
Read the ingredients Gary! I’ve offered Haggis,and Black Pudding. If all else fails I have a 5 year old Christmas pud
3:21 pm on November 10th, 2004
mmmmm. Marmite is good.
4:18 pm on November 10th, 2004
Lisa,
That stuff is just plain vile.
No wonder they practically give it away…
;-D
4:51 pm on November 10th, 2004
Good. Get back to the marmalade.
7:46 pm on November 10th, 2004
all this attention over a little bread spread…
me, i prefer ‘all fruit.’
HI!
8:40 pm on November 10th, 2004
My first thought: you wasteful idiot! didn’t it occur to you to taste the bloody marmite before you smeared it all over perfectly good toast?
9:50 pm on November 10th, 2004
Well, Thinker, if it was your hard earned money that bought the bread - I’d agree with ya.
10:47 pm on November 10th, 2004
Marmite is just an internation practical joke. No one really likes it. It’s still the best they can do to get back at us for 1776.
11:00 pm on November 10th, 2004
I could have told you that stuff was trash worthy !!
1:06 am on November 11th, 2004
apparently many cats really enjoy marmite…
4:17 am on November 11th, 2004
Marmite = very icky!
Vegemite = even more icky!
7:14 am on November 11th, 2004
Marmite is the greatest food (if indeed it is food) source on the planet [looking mournfully at his empty pot, sob]
Oh and Marmite is not our revenge for 1776, that would be Benny hill and the teletubbies.
7:46 am on November 11th, 2004
You’re very funny, Lisa!
2:36 pm on November 11th, 2004
International practical joke?
That’s guiness… not vegemite
6:36 pm on November 11th, 2004
Next time put some good ol’ sugar and cinnamon on that thing!
6:51 pm on November 11th, 2004
Marmite…..Yuck!
Vegemite…Mmmmmmmmmm…now that you can really spread
11:36 pm on November 11th, 2004
Teletubbies … grrrrrrrrrr!! My youngest was SO into that! (eh oh) (groans)
1:25 am on November 12th, 2004
No offense meant, Chris and Fred (and anyone else from the “Old Country,” but the British (and the Scots, now that I think of it) aren’t exactly known for their exciting culinary delights.
Ick! Ick! Ick! I am of Scots/Irish descent. Haggis was used to freak out the English. I still won’t EAT IT. *snort*
I do miss digestives, though. McVitties rocks!
1:50 am on November 12th, 2004
I’ve explained to Gary that it will be a cold day i hell before I make Blood Pudding. He can go home and mommy can make it for him. Damn Leprechauns.
6:31 am on November 12th, 2004
Err that would be Mummy not Mommy
Don’t dis the Guiness. It’s a lovely day for a guiness.
Digestives are nice, Milk chocolate ones rock.
and Marmite is the best
6:58 am on November 12th, 2004
Now I have to try it.
9:32 am on November 12th, 2004
Since we’re correcting spelling here, RedSaid, it’s Guinness, not Guiness.
9:33 am on November 12th, 2004
And I might wanna look at the ID before I mistake it for the author of a blog I read . .
So embarrassing.
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9:54 am on November 12th, 2004
I loved Benny Hill! Whatever happened to him, Fred?
10:25 am on November 12th, 2004
Well I will admit my spelling is horrible, I was diagnosed as being partially dyslexic at school but no amount of practice or schooling seemed to help me out. Normally I try to run it through a spellchecker before I post, you wouldn’t believe the words I can’t spell. I actually had a problem last week while helping my Kindergardener with her homework and I had to ask my wife how to spell Quarter.my favorite is ‘meny’ or ‘many’ or whatever the hell it is. I often have to change what i’m writing because my spelling is so bad I can’t get it close enough for the spellchecker to guess, So my apologies for that post and this one and the next one too!
Don’t worry about the name either… it’s not my real name! its just easy to type! well with one finger at least.
As for Benny Hill i’m not certain but I think he is dead, probably (SP?) due to running around at fast forward speeds all the time…. hilarious…. yeah right. Like I said he is much bigger over here than he ever was back home, and just because I’m British doesn’t mean I am an official on all things Benny hill a point lost on just about every American I’ve met! I’m not even much of a Monty python fan either, give me Blackadder, the Young Ones and Red Dwarf any day of the week.
10:29 am on November 12th, 2004
the young ones were awesome. when i was little, i used to watch benny hill and i’d laugh so hard i peed in my pants.
maybe i should be british - but i have good teeth.
10:33 am on November 12th, 2004
I have perfect teeth…. unlike the straw chewing hayseeds from round these here parts….
10:35 am on November 12th, 2004
BTW “the young ones” is on BBC America each week, still as funny as ever….
10:43 am on November 12th, 2004
“Yes, Minister” is my favorite comedy from across the pond.
10:48 am on November 12th, 2004
good one, two words for you though… Fawlty Towers…… ’nuff said
10:48 am on November 12th, 2004
Didn’t Young Ones start out on MTV over here??? It’s been a while. I’ll check it out on BBC America, thanks.
10:51 am on November 12th, 2004
I have no idea… while your at BBC America, check out Coupling.
12:33 pm on November 12th, 2004
Yep, Benny Hill is dead. He died as if he was in poverty, but left behind a fortune apparantely.
8:03 pm on November 12th, 2004
I’ve got some yuks from BBC America with “The Worst Week of My Life” here recently.
And I’ve had black pudding, white pudding, and haggis when I visited Scotland, but never Marmite. I liked haggis but not either pudding.
It’s almost impossible to have haggis here in the States because it’s illegal to sell lung meat. I guess you could slaughter your own sheep, but… you know.
10:44 pm on November 12th, 2004
Marmite is better than Haggis or black / white Pudding, and a good deal more, Like I said Marmite is the best! Lisa must have prepared it wrong….
10:20 pm on November 13th, 2004
OK RedFred. I’ma find/order some Marmite® and try it out. I like my own homebrew, and all things yeasty so I expect it to rule.
8:07 am on November 15th, 2004
It does, I replenished my supply this weekend, and immediatly chowed down on toast and Marmite. I also introduced it to my 3 year old, who loved it.