Marmite is the most British thing in the cupboard, and the invention behind it is not British at all. The discovery that brewer's yeast could be turned into an edible savoury extract was made by a German chemist, Justus von Liebig. Britain did not invent Marmite. It commercialised someone else's idea, brilliantly, in 1902.
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