The Betoota Advocate, the Australian satirical paper, has published a piece called Why Marmite Is Better Than Vegemite But Not Better Than Easy Clicks On Your Website . The title is doing the entire job, but it is worth reading the rest because it is also funny.
Marmite Articles
Explore our collection of articles about Marmite, Britain's most divisive spread.
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A Marlborough boutique has painted itself in Marmite stripes
Isabella Wookey, who runs Willow & Wolf on the high street in Marlborough, Wiltshire, has painted the front of her shop in broad stripes. The stripes are a slightly pinker brown than the proper Marmite yellow-and-oxblood, but the reference is instant. Walk past it and you think, jar.
Marmite sausages: how a Shropshire butcher built an award-winning banger around the yeast extract
Morgan's Country Butchers, based at Waters Tump just outside Newport in Shropshire, have walked away from this year's National Craft Butchers Awards with two prizes for a Marmite-flavoured pork sausage. The awards were held at Harper Adams University in October.
A Marmite glaze for roast vegetables
A teaspoon of Marmite, a tablespoon of oil, a splash of just-boiled water to thin it. Whisk together until it is loose enough to pour. That is the base glaze. It will coat about a roasting tray's worth of vegetables for four people. Add the glaze at the end, not the start.
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.
Marmite went to war, and the B vitamins came with it
Marmite spent both World Wars in British army ration tins. Not as a luxury, as a piece of medicine.
Does Marmite turn white if you stir it? Almost, and the reason is pure physics
Most Marmite myths fall apart the moment you check them. This one does the opposite. Whip a blob of Marmite hard enough and it really does lighten dramatically, from near-black to a pale milky beige. Not, despite the legend, pure white, but startlingly pale. It is not a trick or a chemical reaction. It is physics, and you can do it on your own toast.
Why a teaspoon of Marmite makes everything taste better: the umami multiplier
There is a real reason a teaspoon of Marmite turns a flat stew into something with depth. It is umami synergy, discovered in 1957: glutamates and certain nucleotides multiply each other rather than add. Marmite is pure glutamate looking for a partner.
Remember when Marmite vanished from Tesco?
For about a week in October 2016, you could not buy a jar of Marmite in Tesco. There was a price tag where it should be, a gap on the shelf where it should be, and absolutely no jar. What was actually happening was a fight over a price rise.
Marmite is one of the longest-running memes on the internet
Bartle Bogle Hegarty wrote "Love it or hate it" for Marmite in 1996. Twenty-nine years later, half the internet is still using it. That is the kind of longevity ad agencies dream of and almost never achieve. The reason it travelled is that it does not actually sell Marmite.
