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Whatever vegemite is, my mom has a tube of it in the pantry at all times. I don't know what she puts it in, but seeing as we picked up more today shopping I'm sure I'm eating it in one way or another.
And what does marmite taste like? I imagine it to taste like beer if you turned it in to dijon mustard consistency...
Sounds like my mother, and me. Marmite and vegemite are basically the same thing, extremely intensely salty with a slightly beefy, yeasty taste to it. I've been eating Marmite for 60 years, an acquired taste learned from my mother who emigrated from England to Canada right after WW2. I use it on toast and will add it to buttery basting sauces for flavouring and browning on roasts, or in certain other savoury meals that I'm cooking, or I'll use it to beef up the flavour of gravies or meaty soups and stews. When I was little I often used to enjoy licking it straight off a spoon, I still do that occassionally now if I have a strong craving for salt.
Hint: You've seen a British AISLE in Florida, a state where LOTS of Brits live in. In places where Brits are very few in number, (i.e. in 95% of the USA), there is no "British AISLE".
Isle = an island
Aisle = a walkway between two rows of seats or shelves
How is it virtually unknown when the supermarkets have a British section???
For once we agree.
Not only that - I was in the grocery store just the other day, and Vegemite and Marmite were just in the regular section, where the spreads and jellies and that sort of thing were. Not that I've ever ONCE seen any in an American home but apparently someone's buying the stuff.
where? I have yet to see a regular supermarket in the US with a british aisle selling british items, stop trying to be relevant, your island is "passe", and while you obsess in having a special relationship with America and secretly wish you were part of America, most Americans could care less about your country.
you're more into the US, than the US is into you!!!!
Summerwhale is not so off target here. There isn't a "British section" in my local grocery store (in a town of 100,000 in east Texas), because there's no need for one - British stuff (and other European stuff) is scattered about throughout the store. Marmite, Vegemite, clotted cream, Irish butter, Belgian chocolate, cookies from the Netherlands and the UK and Germany...etc etc etc.
Because of the ignorance in the US as to British influence. Everything British is simply called "Irish". Go to the Irish section of a supermarket in America - a good half of it is British brands. A full English breakfast is called a full Irish breakfast. And anything Scottish, is also though to be Irish. Not that all this matters. But ignorance abounds.
And look at "irene-CD" - no idea that the US Bill of Rights is based on the British version including the Magna Carta origin, no idea that the bicameral legislature is based on the British version, no idea that the common law system in the majority of US states is based on British law (Louisiana with its Napoleonic code based system of course is different). I could go on, British imperial weights and distances system etc. And of course - speaking English. Look at the old Ivy Leagues -such as Harvard (based on Cambridge and Oxford, including multiple wholesale adoptions of what was in place there).
But people are immune to facts - they have their beliefs and disregard anything that contravenes that. Especially when it comes to a country they hate for whatever reasons.
People get all wound up about nationality as though its important tho. Jeeze its just yeast spread.
What?????? I have never seen an "Irish section" in any supermarket in the US. I have never heard a "full English breakfast" called a "full Irish Breakfast." We call them a "full English breakfast" here.
I don't know where you live or where you're getting these ideas but everywhere I've lived in the US has a pretty high interest in the UK - the royal family, the BBC, British writers, British music, etc. Our local supermarkets carry British food - English teas, English "biscuits," clotted cream, etc. They're not marketed as "Irish" and I've never known anyone to refer to them as that. The Irish butter that my grocery store carries IS from Ireland.
Lots of Americans do get a kick out of St Patrick's Day though.
What?????? I have never seen an "Irish section" in any supermarket in the US. I have never heard a "full English breakfast" called a "full Irish Breakfast." We call them a "full English breakfast" here.
I don't know where you live or where you're getting these ideas but everywhere I've lived in the US has a pretty high interest in the UK - the royal family, the BBC, British writers, British music, etc. Our local supermarkets carry British food - English teas, English "biscuits," clotted cream, etc. They're not marketed as "Irish" and I've never known anyone to refer to them as that. The Irish butter that my grocery store carries IS from Ireland.
Lots of Americans do get a kick out of St Patrick's Day though.
Perhaps they would also be surprised at how many British/UK shows are shown on PBS.
Summerwhale is not so off target here. There isn't a "British section" in my local grocery store (in a town of 100,000 in east Texas), because there's no need for one - British stuff (and other European stuff) is scattered about throughout the store. Marmite, Vegemite, clotted cream, Irish butter, Belgian chocolate, cookies from the Netherlands and the UK and Germany...etc etc etc.
I don't feel like American food is that different anyway so theres not really a need.
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