Posted by KaraS on November 27, 2004, at 17:32:28
In reply to Re: marmite, posted by alexandra_k on November 26, 2004, at 23:12:42
> > I had always heard marmite was a yeast extract, made from the sludge left in the bottom of the beer casks from the aging process. It's very rich in the B vitamins.
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> WOW, ya beat me to it! After learning today that chickens are not force fed until they pop (that would be turkeys and ducks and the popping may well be inadvertant) I hunted down my flatmates jar of marmite. The jar says it contains derivatives of 'barley, wheat, and soy' so it is vegetarian friendly and is a high source of vitamin B, as you say :-)
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> I shouldn't really traffic in empirical matters...
> :-)
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> > It's great on toast, but I sometimes just grab me a fingerful out of the jar.
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> Ew Ew Ew!!!
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> > Marmite is English. Vegemite is Australian (right?). They are similar in taste to the uninitiated, but different to someone that grew up with one of them.
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> I always thought that vegemite was a kiwi thing, but was recently proven wrong when I went to Australia. It is indeed an Aussie thing. Now the pavlova, on the other hand is a Kiwi thing - no matter what any Aussie tries to tell you :-)
The ingredients for marmite make it sound very similar to vegemite (or at least what I think is in vegemite). I wonder why only marmite is listed as prohibited on the MAOI diet. I've never even heard of pavlova.
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