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you get Marmite in Canada????

We get it here in the US too.. I see it lurking on the shelf near the yeast and other such things. I've never quite learned to like the stuff though..

We have a number of folks who served with the RAF, then the RCAF, before retiring here. I easily found Vegamite among our local spreads, but really had to hunt for Marmite. In our common grocer's, it's tucked in with the baking products. I guess someone saw "yeast" on the label and assumed ...

And I like it very much, simply on toast, with a mild'ish cheese, and now even with peanut butter. (Thanks to Tsarina for that one )

There are three jars of vegemite on our store shelf, been there for a while. I have not encountered marmite, though.

I might suggest that is because the Marmite is the good stuff, and the vegamite a very coarse and poor cousin of it.

maybe I should send you some Evangeline although I must say it is an aquired taste

And definitely something to be savoured sparingly.

I'm not sure I'm willing to put in the effort to acquire that taste but maybe others will..

I just nearly posted something in the lighthouse bar thinking it was my journal

The closest local stuff I can compare it to is beef Bovril. Take about 12 ounces of the liquid form, and condense it down to about 3 ounces. A very thick 'tar' and very intensely beef flavoured.

I'm quite a fan of beef jerky, so perhaps I was already 'inclined'.

*takes the greeh away from Cal* no more for you, dear...

I'm a big fan of beef jerky and kippered beef as well, but that didn't seem to help..

kippered beef isn't a kipper a fish?

It's a type of beef that's not quite as tough as jerky but darn close..

I think it's thoroughly saturated with seasonings and flavours before it's dehydrated. SO that it never truly becomes dry or tough. I'm choosy and like to make my own jerky anyway.

Marmite is available here too.

Can't say I care for it at all.

*bigeyes* Ooooh! I've never made it..

but kipper is a fish!!!!

maybe it's a cow with scales and gills?

And apparently it's a very TIRED fish! see below from dictionary.com..


kip·per
A male salmon or seatrout during or shortly after the spawning season.

see a fish so it can't be beef