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According to the marketing slogan it is a taste that you either love or hate. But Danes will no longer get the chance to make up their own minds on Marmite after the British delicacy was banned under food safety laws.
The strongly flavoured dark brown spread made from brewer's yeast has joined Rice Crispies, Shreddies, Horlicks and Ovaltine prohibited in Denmark under legislation forbidding the sale of food products with added vitamins as threat to public health. Link
Let’s hope they make it illegal here too! (Runs and hides behind settee!) 
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Judging by the very last sentence of the report it looks like it's all down to the say-so of one person, quote:
'A spokesman for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration said: "I cannot comment on the Marmite case because our expert is away until Thursday." '
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Trigger I m ashamed of you, best food ever, just finished having some rye bread and marmite as we speak lip licking
Shant be visiting Denmark thats for sure
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That product is on my list of “Vile” edibles - i.e “Avoid at all costs”!
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I can see a business opportunity here. Smuggling Marmite to Denmark.
Marmite Mmmmmm
I remember when I was young, my mother used to buy Marmite in large size catering tins and us kids used to love Marmite lollies. (stick a spoon in the tin and lick the Marmite).
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Last year, they produced a Special Edition - Champagne and Marmite! How ridiculous is that? Could anyone taste Champagne in that over-powering brown sludge - which raises the question - "Why would they want to?" 
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Marmite and Champagne. Mmmmmmmm
My mouth is already watering
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Ohh Morty I'm with you all the way lip llicking good used to have my Marmite fingers
( soldiers) when I was a litt'un and still love it ,can eat it on anything virtually I am a savoury gal anyway but need my marmite I d have to smuggle it in in Denmark Heard on the radio this morning that there a lot of people up in arms in D
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denmark banning horlicks aswel.
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Rice Crispies, Shreddies and Ovaltine as well. Strange lot the Danes!
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Thanks Trigger love marmite hate squeezy cant get the last bits out as easily as glass
I belong to the marmite group on fb haha
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I will make no further comment about Marmite. But will say it's good that we don't all like the same things!
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is there marmite club fb i have to join it.i expect alot of us end up with danish pen friends and smuggle it into denmark.wonder if they can have vegimite.seem very strange
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728: If it's that bad - reading words that aren't there - could I diplomatically recommend a visit to SpecSavers? 
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i been told the danish embassy have had melt down with people asking them about this.Trig if did you one of my special bannana and marmite sandwich it convert you.wash it down with red wine and coke.my daughterinlaw introduce me to it.sounds vile but very nice
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It is like i switch my eyes of to save energy at times lol, i can see perfectly fine, TIGGER  lol
When I close my eyes (for about 1/2 hr) it's to recharge my batteries . .. 
You can try my contact lenses - they might help!
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iTrig if did you one of my special bannana and marmite sandwich it convert you.
I can assure you it definitely would not . . . I wouldn't eat such foul stuff. And anyway, why spoil a perfectly good banana?
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If that doesnt float your boat Trigger try marmite and jam its yummy scrummy its that sweet and savoury mixed
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i has a sophisticated palate trig,not to many people eat as high brow as me.the coke wine mix takes bit of getting use to,(still working on that.)marmite in chock that is vile but banana and marmite really is unique taste and very pleasurable but sorry trig you just aint got what it takes to appreciate it.but hows ya hearing
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i has a sophisticated palate trig,
If eating marmite and banana sandwich equates to having a sophisticated palate - I'm happy with my unspohisticated one.
hows ya hearing
Pardon?
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afraid so trig,dem de breaks some of us got superior taste buds some not.Denmark they eat raw herrings but not marmite folks is strange.hearing not to good then,smiling
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hearing not to good then
I pop one of those Boots Hearing Aid batteries in eacb ear - but it doesn't seem to help.
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them battiers are no good unless you use aids.dont fire up otherwise
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Here are 10 things you maybe did not know about the "love it or hate it" spread. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13541148
For example: “Marmite may keep away mosquitoes. Several newspapers, including the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph, have claimed the yeasty spread to be the perfect defence against mozzies.”
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Funny you should say that Trigger, about 20 miles from where I live is the Marmite factory. The whole town smells of it, it is wonderful!
I will try the marmite and jam sandwich sounds really interesting, don't knock it until you try it I say. 
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Funny you should say that Trigger, about 20 miles from where I live is the Marmite factory. The whole town smells of it, it is wonderful!
Think that’s one place I will avoid at all costs!
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one fact they forgot is if you leave lid off and keep whacking marmite it turns white.They do very nice rice cake made with marmite.i seen christmas anfd birthday cales made in marmite shapes colour not sure if tasted of it....mamite with cheese banana or on its own really is nice,but with chochlate in jelly or as salad i agree not nice
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I wonder who was the first person to try Marmite and what on earth were they thinking of? Dark brown, squidgy and smelling like....?
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Dark brown, squidgy and smelling like....?
The food of the gods.
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beautiful ummmmmmmm apparently it was first tasted when they were skimming the yeast off in alcohol making I think
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I don,t ever remember buying it or tasting it in all my life, I always thought it was an extract from beef like bovril, now thats what I really like.
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No Assie its yeast extract and very good for you too
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how to P' an aussie off remove the vegimite from jar and replace it with marmite,i can not tell difference but apparently they can
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gosh I can SD vegemite tastes nothing like Marmite seems a poor substitute to my taste bud
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The Aussie's go wild over vegemite it's like a national dish, I wonder if it's made by the same company. Perhaps jollyjapes know.
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taste much the same to me,marmite may have tad more zip to it.i got some vegimite here,how i dont know cos thought only came from australia
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The Aussie's go wild over vegemite it's like a national dish, I wonder if it's made by the same company. Perhaps jollyjapes know.
Marmite is produced by Unilever and Vegemite is produced by Kraft Foods
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You can buy it here SD my Mum used to have it because its cheaper than Marmite but noithing like the same kick
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"The product that was to become Marmite was invented by accident in the late 19th Century when German scientist Justus von Liebig discovered that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, bottled and eaten. In 1902 The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England by the Gilmour family, with Marmite as its main product and Burton as the site of the first factory."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
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i bet burton stank somebody on here mention the stink.i tried marmite choch (vile) that marrage of products should not have happened.took me ages get back to marmite after trying that
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The food of the gods.
And there was me thinking that the food of the gods was Ambrosia.
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I set it up - as I knew someone would have to deliver the punch line!
No you didn't! Morty did with his post!
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Now that the topic has swung to rice products - I am a Mueller Rice addict. I consume one per weekday (in my packed lunch) and have done so for many, many years. There are quite a few varieties but I prefer the original -served cold ( I've never actually tried them hot). Marmite is definitely not to my liking!.
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Nor mine Robbie - ugh!
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.......I am a Mueller Rice addict..............Marmite is definitely not to my liking!.
What if Mueller did a Marmite variant of their product, Robbie? 
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mueller rice is it that stuff in little platic pots all yuky and sweet and mushy like baby food nah give me a bit of savoury any day good job we all different then you won't pinch my marmite and i'll keep away from your rice pudding
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Re: this “problem” with Marmite - will it spread?
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To me, it does spread - something like **** !!!
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I tried it once and wasn't that keen on it. However, I quite like the Marmite Crisps
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I tried it once and wasn't that keen on it. However, I quite like the Marmite Crisps
Come on BB, you either love it or you hate it. "Not keen" is not an option.
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I hate to admit this, but I am the same. I do not 'like' Marmite, nor do I specifically hate it. I will eat it, and 'tolerate' it, but not my choice of food spreads. 'Not keen' is my option too.
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The whole world is falling apart. We now have 3 options, all the Marmite adverts will have to be re-written.
I cannot see it tripping off the tongue. "Love it, hate it or really don't care much one way or the other."
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