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Billy Bragg and Marmite: the Bard of Barking who put it in a song

Billy Bragg and Marmite: the Bard of Barking who put it in a song

Most people manage a sentence about Marmite. Billy Bragg put it in a song: the title track of 'England, Half English' pictures a breakfast of 'Marmite soldiers washed down with a cappuccino'. You don't reach for Marmite as shorthand for home unless you genuinely eat it.

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