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Marmite popcorn: the Joe & Seph's bag, what it tastes like, and how to make a better version at home

Marmite popcorn: the Joe & Seph's bag, what it tastes like, and how to make a better version at home

Joe & Seph's, the gourmet popcorn people based in north London, have done a deal with Unilever Food Solutions UK to produce the first officially licensed Marmite popcorn.

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Marmite toasties are on the autumn menu boards

Marmite toasties are on the autumn menu boards

According to the latest Bakery Info roundup, Caffè Nero, Costa, M&S Café, Pret and Starbucks are all running Marmite-based toasties this autumn. Not as a fringe special at one branch, but as proper autumn menu items printed on the boards.

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Marmite is doing a 50-year retrospective, which is weird because the jar is 123

Marmite is doing a 50-year retrospective, which is weird because the jar is 123

Marmite has published a 50-year anniversary interview this month, which is the sort of brand-PR exercise that I would normally skim and ignore, except that there is a small problem with the maths. Marmite was first sold in 1902. It is one hundred and twenty-three years old.

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The M&S Marmite pizza outsold the Margherita

The M&S Marmite pizza outsold the Margherita

In its first week on shelves, the new M&S three-cheese Marmite pizza outsold the standard M&S Margherita. The Margherita has been an M&S Food fixture for, what, twenty years? The Marmite pizza had been on sale for seven days. That is a properly good launch number.

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Marmite has made a popcorn slab

Marmite has made a popcorn slab

In late June, a limited-edition Marmite popcorn slab arrived on supermarket shelves. Imagine a flat bar, roughly the size of a thick chocolate slab, made of caramelised popcorn fused together with a Marmite glaze. You break a piece off and eat it as you would a flapjack. Stupid idea, on paper.

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Marmite Peanut Butter is back, nine months after Unilever killed it

Marmite Peanut Butter is back, nine months after Unilever killed it

Marmite Peanut Butter is back on shelves.

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When M&S was hacked, Tesco started delivering them Marmite

When M&S was hacked, Tesco started delivering them Marmite

In late April 2025, Marks & Spencer's IT systems were taken out by a ransomware attack. Online orders went down. Inventory management went down. The internal supply chain went down.

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Marmite roast potatoes, in a bag, on the snack aisle

Marmite roast potatoes, in a bag, on the snack aisle

Tesco are now stocking Marmite-glazed roast potatoes, as a snack, in a 350g bag, for £3.50. Whatever next.

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Marmite in the comfort-food repertoire, properly

Marmite in the comfort-food repertoire, properly

If you only eat Marmite on toast, you are using maybe a tenth of what the jar can do. The teaspoon trick is this: a small amount, stirred into something else, gives that other thing the long savoury back-note that a stock cube and a teaspoon of soy sauce together cannot quite manage.

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M&S have launched a proper Marmite-cheddar sandwich

M&S have launched a proper Marmite-cheddar sandwich

M&S have launched a pre-made sandwich in their food-to-go range that pairs Marmite cream cheese with British farmhouse cheddar, on vitamin-D enriched soft white bread. Around four quid.

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