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Cheese and Marmite Toastie

Toastie! Cheese! Marmite! Yes? No?

  • YES !

    Votes: 44 83.0%

  • NO !

    Votes: 9 17.0%
  • Total voters
    53
I don't often have Marmite with cheddar but I regularly have it with cream cheese
In fact, I rarely have cream cheese without Marmite.
 
Wookey said:
Funny you should say that Farmer. A couple or three years ago, they did a wide-ranging large-scale consumer behavioural study (basically from a humanistic psychological viewpoint of happiness and self-actualisation) and this study was looking into what character differences might be attributable to people who really like Marmite, and those who actively despise it. It seems common that ambivalence, that is to say neither liking it or hating it, is a rare trait. This meant that finding a dichotomous cohort of both lovers and haters was easy - and the findings extraordinary.

Those who self-reported as being lovers of Marmite were statistically considerably more likely to have a far higher corresponding co-occurrence of self-defined social empathy, wit, personal style and, interestingly, a more open-minded approach to life and it's experiences, that led to far higher life satisfaction levels.

Concomitantly, it was found that those who expressed a deep aversion to Marmite (what they would define as "hate", on a sliding scale of emotional responses presented to them) were found on average to be far less happy, less funny, were dressed like errant scarecrows and, interestingly, had a more closed-minded approach to life and it's experiences, that led to lower satisfaction levels, and a lower sense of personal achievement in life.

So, what can be drawn from these studies?

Well, loving Marmite is clearly either a precursor OR a product of you being happy, contented, witty, stylish, basically living your best life with your arms open - lovers of Marmite are far more likely to carry a personal sense of social and emotional balance, what some might term the essential modern success.

Conversely, it's clear that hating Marmite to the point of frothing at one's yeastless maw about just how much one hates it when the subject arises, is either the cause OR the effect of that soul-less, empty, disconnected, gloomy, shabbily-attired dullard kind of feeling, that is one's existence without Marmite (and which one is still somehow, valiantly, admirably able to pass off as a life!)

The jury is out on cause and effect, that was outwith this study's remit. But science. Oh, and there was a very small cross-section of what we might as well call the "maladjusted haters", who recorded a scatological reference when giving their open-ended emotional responses to Marmite. These outliers were deemed by the psychologists to be classifiable WrongUns, and not worth trying to save with pointless empathy, life coaching or behavioural therapies, for example, but rather dealt with by judicial branding, shackling and putting on an island.

Which is strong for the scientific community, but who are we to argue?
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That's an incredibly long and crafted post, in which to basically point out farmerbarleymow is wrong'un, I take my hat off to you, sir. :D

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Wookey said:
it was found that those who expressed a deep aversion to Marmite (what they would define as "hate", on a sliding scale of emotional responses presented to them) were found on average to be far less happy, less funny, were dressed like errant scarecrows and, interestingly, had a more closed-minded approach to life and it's experiences, that led to lower satisfaction levels, and a lower sense of personal hygiene
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They could try using Marmite Lynx!

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bcuster said:
I appreciate that advice. My marmite is being delivered in two days
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It will take you ages to get through even a small jar even if you love it, but it's worth bearing in mind that the stuff doesn't go off, the worst that will happen to it is some salt crystals might form in it after a year or two.
I hope you like it, and I can't wait to hear what you think :)
 
cupid_stunt said:
That's an incredibly long and crafted post, in which to basically point out farmerbarleymow is wrong'un, I take my hat off to you, sir. :D

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Murky buckets, I really just started off with the known and popularly accepted destination (Farmerbarleymow being an unashamed but still scientifically distingushable WrongUn*) and then inexorably worked my way towards that in terms of structure and fictive device.

* see boards for the last quarter century of evidence to support this finding.👌
 
existentialist said:
Neither will I, though I like it. Unilever, innit? Still trying to find an available substitute, but it looks like Lidl stock Marmite rather than their own, and I haven't found it yet in Aldi.
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I've not got the real Marmite here, but Aldi's 'Mighty Yeast Extract', a lot cheaper and I can't tell any difference in taste, much like most of Aldi's own piss-taking rip-offs of major brands.

Current price comparison on the Aldi site -

1729022132246.pngMarmite Classic Yeast Extract Spread 250g - £2.99 - £1.20 per 100g

1729022250465.pngGrandessa Mighty Yeast Extract 240g - £1.89 - £0.79 per 100g
 
bcuster said:
I bought the top one 👆
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That's the original and major brand.

Aldi, and Lidl, are German discount supermarkets, that launched into the UK and have expanded rapidly, much of their offering is own brand rip-offs of leading brands, that are so close to the originals it's hard to tell the difference in most cases, but they are so much cheaper than the big brands and big UK supermarket chains.

Many people thought they were aiming at people on tight budgets, so there was, and perhaps still is with some, snobbery towards them, but the thing is, richer people like bargains too, and there's no shortage of top of the range BMWs and Audis in their car-parks around here.
 
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cupid_stunt said:
That's the original and major brand.

Aldi, and Lidl, are German discount supermarkets, that launched into the UK and have expanded rapidly, much of their offering is own brand rip-offs of leading brands, that are so close to the originals it's hard to tell the difference in most cases, but they are so much cheaper than the big brands and big UK supermarket chains.
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Aldi and Lidl is very probably the originals with different labels, or occasionally with slightly different ingredients, do you really think they have their own factories? I used to work at Premier Brands back in the day and I can assure you the only difference between Hartley and supermarkets one stuff was the sodding label, cos I worked on the label machine :)

All those caterpillar cakes?? Same factory :D

I am really miffed that Lidl has become so popular, I liked it more before everyone in the town with cafes/B&B, etc started using it as a cash and carry. It's rarely quiet now :(
 
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