100 years of love/hate

Whilst still on the storyline of food related, I received a freebee through the post the other day which I received for completing a customer survey ages ago which I had forgotten all about. When I picked it up off the hall floor, it was obvious which Company had sent it from the logo’s etc. on the box, but what it contained was beyond belief!

You love it or you hate it, yes that old favourite Marmite! My self I fall into the love it camp, whilst my better half Dawn hates even the smell of it. Receiving this freebee got me to thinking about Marmite so I decided to ‘Google’ it so to speak and found out allsorts about this wonderful product. In fact to start with, I will link it to last nights blog for one of the meals I used to have when living on Bingley involved Marmite.

Ingredients:

12 slices of very thick white bread

Enough butter to butter the bread

Approx a 2 pounds of mature cheddar cheese

Two/three large onions

A good knob of butter

Black pepper & salt to taste

A jar of Marmite.

Prepare by peeling the onions and slicing into rings.

Grate the cheese.

Spread one side of each of the twelve slices of bread with butter and a thin layer of Marmite.

Using the cast iron casserole pot, place a good knob of butter in the bottom along with roughly a third of the onions and place on top of the range to melt the butter whilst stirring the onions. When the butter has melted and coated the onions evenly, take the pot off the heat. Evenly spread the layer of onions across the base of the pot then add a layer of four slices of buttered/marmited bread facing up, followed by a layer of a third of the cheese. Repeat the process with a second and finally a third layer of onions, bread, cheese. Put the lid on and put into your hot oven for about 45/60 minutes. For the last ten minutes take the lid off to brown the top layer of cheese. Mmmm Mmmm delicious.

As most of you know, Marmite is a yeast extract and is made from the by product of brewing beer It’s Original factory is in Burton on Trent close to Shobnall on the Trent & Mersey canal and you can fill your lungs with the exquisite aroma if the wind is right as you pass through. I was amazed as to how many differing products and types of Marmite were available, here’s just a few.

The original traditional Marmite

Marmite with Champagne

Marmite with Guinness

Marmite with Marston's Pedigree Bitter

A variety made for Australia

And then there's other 'Marmite' products

Marmite flavoured Cheddar Cheese

Rice Cakes

The ever favourite, Twiglets

The latest promotional Walkers Marmite crisps

The original Walkers Marmite crisps

Marmite flavoured Fudge!

Marmite's own branded crisps

Breakfast cereal bars

Marmite Breadsticks

Cashew Nuts

Mini Cheddars

And yes Marmite flavoured chocolates

Marmite sausages

Marmite cheese spread

And then there's other products

set of mugs

A set of egg cups

Marmite sandwich box

Marmite gift boxes

Personalised sterling silver jar lids

Waste bins for chewing gum!

4 London Taxi's

Sports shirts

Bomber Jackets

And of course now Paddington Bear no longer eats Marmalade sandwiches but has been converted to Marmite!

And finally, if you have made it to the end, what this blog all started off with - the freebee I received and here's the box it came in, and honest it is the actual product, I even gagged at the thought of brushing my teeth with Marmite flavoured tooth paste. What I would like readers to do is post a comment as to whether they love it or hate it, and those who love it would they use Marmite toothpaste.!

Just click on these images to get a larger view and read for yourselves!

Blossom