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| Thread ID: 81771 | 2007-08-06 21:15:00 | I've just gone off Peanut butter | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 577275 | 2007-08-13 10:25:00 | If the above but one isn't butch,tell me what is? | Cicero (40) | ||
| 577276 | 2007-08-13 10:47:00 | (And what were those chocolate-covered caramel/marshmallow bars we froze? Memory fails those...) I think they were buzz bars, Laura. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 577277 | 2007-08-14 01:43:00 | (And what were those chocolate-covered caramel/marshmallow bars we froze? Memory fails those...) I think they were buzz bars, Laura. Yes, those were the ones, Marnie. Thanks for the aide memoire. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 577278 | 2007-08-14 02:21:00 | i cant look at my peanut butter the same way anymore!...so...hungry...for...salty nuts in my mouth, peanuts that is! | Codex (3761) | ||
| 577279 | 2007-08-14 22:29:00 | John H: On Friday, you described Sanitarium as the maker of Marmite and other "iconic" southern hemispere foods. I waited for you to be torn apart - limb by limb - by antipodean baby-boomers who spent so much of their OE time arguing with Marmite-eating Pommie flatmates that Earls Court grocers were forced to import Vegemite ( made by Kraft, actually ) or lose their Anzac customers. The Marmite/Vegemite wars were legenday - long before TV ads about Vogel's bread - together with jokes about lamingtons & chocolate fish. (And what were those chocolate-covered caramel/marshmallow bars we froze? Memory fails those...) But it seems that nobody cares. So although you may keep your limbs, I believe a mild reproof is in order..? Have been away for a coupla days SJ. Marmite was originally made in Britain, but has been made in NZ by Sanitarium for many years, and re-developed for our taste. Vegemite is some sort of American crap made in Australia by Kraft. It was much later on the scene here than Marmite. However, both spreads are a continuation of the usual northern hemisphere colonisation process ;) Have a look at this from today's Christchurch rag - The Press: www.stuff.co.nz Any Kiwis who may have taken part in the wars you talk about wouldn't have known their own history. However, whatever we think about our antipodean cousins when we are at home, when we are in Britain they become bosom buddies, united against the common Pommy foe. So we would have backed up the Aussies, even though neither would have known they were supporting an Amerikan product... Personally, I was brought up on Marmite, as were our kids. And personally, I can't stand either of them (Marmite or Vegemite I mean, not my kids) |
John H (8) | ||
| 577280 | 2007-08-15 00:11:00 | Wow, John. Talk about "all you ever needed to know abour Marmite & Vegemite" in that link... Yes, I see we Anzacs in London already had it wrong by several decades, even in the "olden days," when I was there. But you're quite right about backing up the Aussies against the common Pommie foes. (Had to be balanced against their frequent question:"And where in Australia do you come from?" We suddenly sympathised with Canadians) M & V was interchangeable when I was a kid, quite liking both. I never considered there was a taste difference until breakfasting with Auckland cousins 2 months ago. The 5 year-old would only eat one brand & the 7 year-old the other. (So I decided to keep my connoisseur pretentions for wine instead ...) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 577281 | 2007-08-15 00:41:00 | I wondered Laura, after reading that article, whether the Marmite in Britain always stayed the same, whereas the NZ version evolved so much that people used to eating Marmite here didn't like the Pommy version? If so, maybe the NZ Marmite is more like the Oz Vegemite and hence preferable to Kiwis in Britain. I never tried the Brit version, not liking the product here anyway, so I am no judge. | John H (8) | ||
| 577282 | 2007-08-15 00:46:00 | Oops, I just noticed that it was you, Laura, not SurferJoe who posted the "torn apart limb by limb" post. I don't know why I got confused... Hence my reference to SJ, and the crack about "American crap" - I was trying for a bite from him... If I had been intelligent enough to realise I was responding to a fellow Kiwi, I would have answered differently. Sorry about that. I assume we both agree that Phar Lap is a Kiwi and that pavlova was invented in NZ? :lol: |
John H (8) | ||
| 577283 | 2007-08-15 02:09:00 | Absobloodylutely, John. Even if they do have 2 of the 3 Phar Lap display bits (skeleton/skin/heart) over there & we've only got 1 in Wellingon. As for the pav - not only does the expert/definitive researcher on that, Professor Helen Leach, work at Otago University, but she went to my old school here. She was in my sister's class. One of her sisters was in my class. There can't possibly be any better recommendation for her findings than that. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 577284 | 2007-08-15 04:56:00 | Hahahaha. You have practically been vaccinated against claims from across the ditch Laura! | John H (8) | ||
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