5 hours later, I’m almost to the last of this 125g jar… must have more…
I’ve been eating it on and off all day. I’ll binge a bit and think no, I can’t possibly have anymore. Then sure enough, an hour later, my appetite’s returned and there’s still enough left for another binge. It’s kind of like when I discovered internet porn.
Can’t wait until tomorrow morning when I try it with my favorite breakfast, boiled eggs on toast with sriracha pepper sauce.
I just discovered Marmite has a 1 kilogram tub available!!
It’s not as good as my 2.5 kg vegemite tub, but it’s a start.
Kiwi marmite was definitely too sweet for me. English Marmite isn’t. But vegemite stays on the knife better.
Here’s my problem with vegemite/marmite/promite/dustmite: It smells like brewer’s yeast pills. And I’ve tasted brewer’s yeast pills. They’re … unpleasant. The only way I can take brewer’s yeast is in beer, where it belongs.
Here’s my problem with natto: This. If not marmite, then this is enough for me to question anyone’s gustatory credibility.
Oh no! Now I’m going to spend the next forever reading these. That was hilarious.
When Vegemite was first released, it attempted to compete with the then-well established dominant spread in the field, Marmite, by calling itself Pawill.
That’s Parwill! 
You can actually buy it around here in the supermarket gourmet British foods sections (usually about 5 inches tall by 3 inches wide almost like the leaflets on Jewish sports legends). I tried to learn to like Marmite for a while a mostly succeeded. I am not a picky eater, however but I even craved it once or twice during my stunt but it isn’t something I would ever pass off on unsuspecting friends of family members. You have to be mentally prepared for that stuff to know what you are getting into. A female friend and I once slipped a jar into a bar/restaurant’s condiments rack as a joke. I am not sure whatever became of that but I never saw anything about it on the news.
Has anyone tried Vegex?
I was going to dispute the ‘sweet’ label for NZ Marmite but, holy hidden numbers Batman - 0.6 grams of sugar per 5g serve. That’s over 10%!
Ignorance fought!
Legend has it that all the ‘mite’ products, Vegemite, Marmite and Promite originated as by-products of the beer-brewing industry.
Apparently (and I’ll let someone else find out if this is true or not) the factory workers in the breweries found the black, tar-like sludge and muck at the bottom of the barrels after fermentation quite tasty, AND found they suffered fewer hangovers and alcohol-related illnesses when great black gobs of the stuff were swallowed after a night on the piss. Full of all the B Complex vitamins and puts a rose in every cheek too! 
Of course, I’m an Aussie, so it’s only Vegemite for me. Marmite and Promite are far too sweet and cloying for my liking.
Just to clarify -
Marmite in the UK is a trademark of Unilever. Marmite in NZ is a trademark of Sanitarium, and produced with a different recipe.
When NZ Marmite is shipped overseas, to prevent trademark issues it is labelled Promite.
Got to love that Kiwi marmite. I keep looking for a classic marmite ad from NZ, where small marmite men crawl out of the jar and play rugby (All Black linkup) on the kitchen table, to the amusement of a little boy eating his marmite toast. Great ad.
Si
I’m not sure about the anecdote in the second paragraph, but yeast extract spreads are definitely a brewery by-product - arising out of late Victorian curiosity and experimentation with food ‘extracts’ - Bovril predates Marmite by a decade or two, but at around that time, I believe there were all sorts of different concentrated food products on offer.
Put a teaspoon in your next gravy (but don’t add any extra salt).
I find Promite disgustingly sweet. Vegemite is good but too salty.
In Malaysia, they make “Marmite crab”, an utterly delicious Marmite-based curry.
Over here we can buy crackers, bagel bites, and potato chips, all flavored with Marmite, the God-king of weird savory beer byproduct spreads.
It makes a pretty awesome glaze for roast chicken too - thin some down with the tiniest drop of water, then brush it all over the skin.
Go away, you horrible people. You all smell.
Hater.
Damn right.
mmmm Bovril. Nothing like a nice steaming mug of bovril when the brass monkeys are ball-less.
Good god, man! I loooove Marmite, but the standard tiny jar lasts me half a year at least! Consuming that much salt in such a short time can’t be good for anyone.
In keeping with the Dope’s credo it must be pointed out that the discussed products won’t be found at the bottom -or top- of any brewer’s tuns,though autolysed yeast is a main ingredient .