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Why is Marmite called Marmite? The French pot on the label

Why is Marmite called Marmite? The French pot on the label

Marmite is named after the picture on its own label. A marmite is a French cooking pot, and the spread was first sold in little earthenware versions of one in 1902. The pot stayed on the jar long after the jar stopped being a pot. And the French word itself has a much stranger past: it once meant a hypocrite.

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