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Typical newsgroup Marmite conversation

By: Seamus Waldron Published: 28 July 2001

Barbara, run in the opposite direction!!!!  It is horrible brown yucky salty
stuff!!!

Lynda

----- Original Message -----
Subject: [stillwater-homestead] Marmite ....deep question....?


> Tim and Kevin,
> Guess I missed it somewhere along the line....so I must ask!..What the
> heck IS Marmite????
>                    Barbara

Update, June 2026: This love/hate split was playing out on the early internet years before the web. See The internet was arguing about Marmite in 1985.

Provenance: Originally published on ilovemarmite.com (the site's original domain, 2000–2016). Republished here on ilovemarmite.co.uk in 2025 after the .com domain was lost. Original publication date preserved above.

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Categories: Pop Culture References , Love It or Hate It Phenomenon

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