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Sounds good, JB


I occasionally have reason to trundle past the Worcestershire sauce factory in Midland road, and when they are brewing up a batch the aroma is wonderful.

Hi pongeroon,
You could tell your scary friend,Sue,that it is "Vegemite" a lookalike product from the Antipodes
Is it the taste that your friend doesn"t like? Marmite is 100% vegetarian.

It is the taste she doesn't like Snooky (but only when she can detect it ).
I wouldn't try to sneak in non-vegetarian stuff into veggie food, that's just wrong.Not a veggie myself, but understand and applaud the reasons behind it.

Many years ago (in pre-Glasnost Soviet Union) we developed a contact there and learning that they were very short of food, sent a number of food parcels. We included some typical British favourites such as Marmite and Bovril. The food was raptuously received but when we visited them some years later the jars of Bovril and Marmite were still untouched apart from tiny little scratch marks around the surface where various people had obviously checked it out very suspiciously. Everbody had been utterly bewildered by it as they had nothing like it there, so had no idea what to do with it!

Well, well, well! Turns out it might have its uses after all.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/215 ... is-Marmite

snooky wrote:...MARMITE is made from the leftover yeast after the beer is produced.

I heard a news story that inmates in one prison were being banned from using Marmite as a few of them had been using it as a source of yeast to brew illicit hooch.

I find this hard to believe, as I understood the yeast used in Marmite had been heavily boiled as part of the production process. You wouldn't have thought there'd be any active yeast left after this???

Unless the warders were just taking the chance to be extraordinarily cruel