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Why is yeast extract (e.g. Marmite or Vegemite) much less popular in the US and Canada than in the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa? Is it because the breweries producing the original yeast extracts proved more economical in the UK than in the US?
I don't suppose it's popular in the anglophone Caribbean (e.g. British Virgin Islands or Barbados) or Bermuda?
Oh I have no idea its probably just different tastes. Marmite is more of an English thing though rather than British thing, most people wouldn't eat it.
I just looked up the history and it seems it is actually a product of fairly recent origin, being popularized in the early 20th century. I see that it really started to spread out of the UK around WW1. My guess is that its spread into Canada and the USA was hampered by the spread of the prohibition movement around this time period. Canadian provinces in municipalities prohibited or permitted alcohol in a patchwork system throughout much of the early 20th century, and were spurred on by WW1. This probably effected the economics of marmite becoming popular as breweries weren't a consistent presence and became fewer in number.
I just looked up the history and it seems it is actually a product of fairly recent origin, being popularized in the early 20th century. I see that it really started to spread out of the UK around WW1. My guess is that its spread into Canada and the USA was hampered by the spread of the prohibition movement around this time period. Canadian provinces in municipalities prohibited or permitted alcohol in a patchwork system throughout much of the early 20th century, and were spurred on by WW1. This probably effected the economics of marmite becoming popular as breweries weren't a consistent presence and became fewer in number.
Prohibitions history in Canada is quite different than that of the US, so I'm not sure if that is the real factor.
"Prohibition was too short-lived in Canada to engender any real success. "
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