# Brit-speak translation, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 10, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-speak-translation-please/937652 "2021-03-10T22:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-speak-translation-please/937652/6 "2021-03-10T23:58:01Z")
This old Pit thread, from about 10+ years ago, tells the essence of Marmite: > [@The Marmite Horror](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627): > > If it appears that I write these words in haste, I beg your forgiveness - but my time is brief, for I cannot know how long my sanity will endure. For I have tasted of That Which Must Not Be Named - that which its acolytes, in foul ceremonies of ancient Pagan faiths, call “Marmite” - and I fear my mind cannot long endure the memory of that hideous flavour. My G-d, my G-d, my G-d - No. G-d help me, no! I will finish this, my last and greatest duty in this life. For the sake of my soul, that it mi… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-speak-translation-please/937652)._