Shortages & Controversies

Marmite supply issues, controversies, and debates: Marmitegate in New Zealand, Brexit shortages, and viral incidents.

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Watchdogs hate Marmite – Official

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that six terrified parents claimed that their two- and three-year-olds had been "terrified" by the latest Marmite commercials. We aren't sure if it's the children terrified of the advert or the parents terrified their children might eat Marmite.

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Prisoners turn to Marmite moonshine

You search the web time and again, but still you miss the most amazing things. In 2002, the centennial year of Marmite, it was discovered that inmates at a jail near Wolverhampton in England, were brewing their own "hooch" using Marmite.

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