# The Marmite Horror **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627 "2009-10-05T02:20:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/81 "2009-10-06T11:56:56Z")
Here in the Dominican Rep. we have our own version of peanut butter. It is salty, a little chunky and sometimes spicy (Scotch bonnet peppers). It is the food of gods. Unfortunately it has been slowly disappearing, substituted by American-style PB. A shame really. I have tried Marmite, I think it was salty, salty is good to me. But for my money I absolutely prefer tapenade. Fishy, oily and stinky: that’s the stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/82 "2009-10-06T14:27:26Z")
> [@Bacon\_Salt](#): > > I’d say peanut butter is a really good contender for USA’s Vegemite equivalent. I don’t think that many Americans of my generation have had head cheese or Spam. > Other contenders: > Ranch dressing > Green bean casserole > Twinkies It’s funny what you think is normal - only a few years ago I found out that green bean casserole is only normal for white people. Two of the black ladies I work with cornered me when I was talking about the Great Thanksgiving Cookathon at my house to ask me, “Do white people REALLY eat that green bean casserole?” They had only seen it in commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/83 "2009-10-06T15:20:50Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Here in the Dominican Rep. we have our own version of peanut butter. It is salty, a little chunky and sometimes spicy (Scotch bonnet peppers). It is the food of gods. Unfortunately it has been slowly disappearing, substituted by American-style PB. A shame really. What’s it called? Do you have a recipe? A fusion of marmite, peanut butter, and scotch bonnet peppers sounds just the thing! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/84 "2009-10-06T15:49:37Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > BTW: what do you marmite lovers think of peanut butter? I’ve heard that they are supposed to be mutually exclusive tastes. I love peanut butter as well. Peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and banana (though this combination requires tools to get your mouth back open afterward), peanut butter straight from the jar. I don’t think I’m going to combine it with Marmite, though. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/85 "2009-10-06T16:14:56Z")
Never having read Lovecraft, I thought it was a Poe parody. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/86 "2009-10-06T16:31:39Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > What’s it called? Do you have a recipe? A fusion of marmite, peanut butter, and scotch bonnet peppers sounds just the thing! 🆒 Do you add marmite to everything? :eek: I used to have the recipe posted in my website. It was gone in the last upgrade. I’ll dig it up and let you know. ---
**Author:** ![MJinks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@MJinks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJinks)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/87 "2009-10-06T16:32:39Z")
Marmite is lovely, our local Morrisons stock a variety of Marmite flavoured snacks. Rice cakes, crackers and cheese. Only the Marmite flavoured cheese made me feel a little sick, maybe I shouldn’t have eaten all of it… Martmite and pretzels are nice, a bit like a rich man’s Twiglets (which are my favourite snack food). It’s a complete salt overload, I don’t want to get old anyway… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/88 "2009-10-06T16:50:08Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > But it tastes like peanuts. Unsalted peanuts, which are an abomination unto themselves but that shall be the subject of our sermon on another Sunday. Really? Most peanut butters I’ve had are quite salty. A 32g serving of Skippy has 150mg of sodium. A 28g serving of Planters salted peanuts has 115mg of sodium. (According to the info at [caloriecount.about.com](http://caloriecount.about.com)). ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/89 "2009-10-06T17:17:15Z")
> [@](#): > > I do not eat something that looks like semiliquid chocolate, when it is my wish to taste peanuts. Providing me with something that appears chocolatey and turns out to taste of peanuts truly is a most deceitful and unacceptable betrayal, comparable to that of Judas upon the Lord our God, it is! If peanut butter looks like chocolate over there then either you are doing peanut butter wrong, or chocolate wrong. Reese’s just came out with dark chocolate PB cups 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/90 "2009-10-06T17:46:54Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > It’s funny what you think is normal - only a few years ago I found out that green bean casserole is only normal for white people. I never thought I’d miss my mom’s green bean casserole, but I do. (Mom’s fine, she just doesn’t do casseroles anymore.) I think America’s size and diversity may make it impossible to find a truly national characteristic foodstuff. I saw a British show recently where one character mocked Americans as grit-eaters. I can find dozens of restaurants in a 30-mile radius that serve menudo or pho, but I can only think of one that _might_ offer grits. Heck, I’d have an easier time finding Cornish pasties. ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/91 "2009-10-06T17:54:02Z")
Pasties, mmmm. They don’t make 'em with Marmite, do they? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/92 "2009-10-06T17:57:28Z")
> [@Caractacus\_Pott](#): > > Pasties, mmmm. They don’t make 'em with Marmite, do they? I’ve put marmite on mine… seriously, nothing better than a fresh, hot youper pasty, slathered with butter, hot sauce, and marmite! The ones with parsnips are best… ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/93 "2009-10-06T18:01:53Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve put marmite on mine… > > seriously, nothing better than a fresh, hot youper pasty, slathered with butter, hot sauce, and marmite! The ones with parsnips are best… I am starting to see a pattern here… ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/94 "2009-10-06T18:11:48Z")
Marmite is indeed horrid, my English friends claim I ate it wrong because I didn’t put it on toast, but I cannot believe the taste of a crack whores asshole would be improved by toast. Just be glad you didn’t try Vegimite. I hear it’s worse. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/95 "2009-10-06T19:18:14Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I just wish that there was some way I could get a taste of things like Vegemite and Marmite without having to go to the trouble and expense of purchasing of it. That way if I don’t like it, I won’t have to feel guilty about tossing it out, or arranging to have it transported to the nearest hazardous waste disposal facility, or whatever. > > Hmm, my spellchecker recognizes Vegemite but not Marmite as a legitimate word. Cost Plus World Market used to sell Vegemite in wee round containers, maybe 2"x3" in size, so if you didn’t like it you didn’t feel bad about pitching the whole thing. However, it seems most of the Cost Pluses around here have been closed- not sure if you still have some open in your neck of the woods. Oh! And this American can’t stand peanut butter either. I haven’t touched it in years, and that’s a good thing. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/96 "2009-10-06T19:32:25Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Really? Most peanut butters I’ve had are quite salty. A 32g serving of Skippy has 150mg of sodium. A 28g serving of Planters salted peanuts has 115mg of sodium. (According to the info at [caloriecount.about.com](http://caloriecount.about.com)). The one they had at the cafeteria tasted like peanuts roasted in the shell with salt. That is, a lot less salty than what a Spaniard considers your “basic peanut taste” - and in any case, definitely not chocolatey. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/97 "2009-10-06T19:44:28Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > “The Marmite Horror” sounds like a good title for a Sci-Fi (excuse me, ScyFy) original movie. Does anyone know if Bruce Boxleitner is free? Yes good title, with supporting alien roles to the [megamite](http://www.hustlerofculture.com/me_we/2007/04/megamites.html) [army](http://www.jasonhackenwerth.com/) by conceptual artist Jason Hackenwerth. I have never tried the stuff but I think I would be all over that spreadable horror! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/98 "2009-10-06T19:57:41Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > “The Marmite Horror” sounds like a good title for a Sci-Fi (excuse me, ScyFy) original movie. Does anyone know if Bruce Boxleitner is free? “No-one would have believed, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably yeastier than ours regarded this earth with envious eyes; and slowly, and surely, they drew their gelatinous plans against us–” Oops. Sorry. Wrong story. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/99 "2009-10-06T20:11:03Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > What does it taste like? I have to trust you. i am not going to try it. When you roast a chicken, the juices often reduce in the pan to a sticky, salty gooey mixture. Marmite tastes quite a bit like that. Really, I don’t know why people make such a fuss - even if they hate the stuff, people should acknowledge that it’s not intrinsically any more weird than soy sauce. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627/100 "2009-10-06T20:19:24Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > Bovril Heh, this is like watching til the end credits have finished rolling on a horror film, and then getting the shot of the ‘dead’ monster suddenly twitch to life… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-marmite-horror/512627.md?page=6)