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!
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.
What’s it called? Do you have a recipe? A fusion of marmite, peanut butter, and scotch bonnet peppers sounds just the thing! 
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.
Never having read Lovecraft, I thought it was a Poe parody. Well done!
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.
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…
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).
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 
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.
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…
I am starting to see a pattern here…
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.
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.
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.
Yes good title, with supporting alien roles to the megamite army by conceptual artist Jason Hackenwerth.
I have never tried the stuff but I think I would be all over that spreadable horror! 
“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.
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.
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…