Over to the dark side

[ailbhe]

I've started wanting Marmite. Not craving it, not even liking it very much, but feeling peckish specifically for Marmite and then eating, say, eight cream crackers, or four slices of toast, with butter-substitute and increasingly fatter thin spreadings of it.

I have no idea how I will ever justify feeding it to my children, if I do - it's almost totally salt, plus, it's yukky. But I want more.

Also, Rob and I have been together eight years today. Clever us.

Comments

[artela.livejournal.com]

You might be lacking B-complex vitamins? Marmite is good for making up a shortfall in those...

[caerleon.livejournal.com]

I remember when we'd been together 8 years.. by 'eck that were some time ago.. :-)

[gmh.livejournal.com]

Eight years today?

Hooray and congrats ;)

[wingedkami.livejournal.com]

I don't have a problem with the salt content of Marmite because a) I only eat a little bit at a time and b) I eat so little processed food that my salt consumption would otherwise be extremely low. Salt is necessary, after all...

And it's full of lovely vitamins.

[alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Ditto re the saltiness of Marmite - I don't think we're into the danger zone. And I have horrible memories of agonising cramps as a child and the doctor saying I should eat more salt.

Plus I love it.

Congrats on the eight years :)

[pauamma]

Conga rats!

[rmc28]

I really dislike Marmite; Tony really likes it. It will be interesting to see which way Charles goes.

And hurray for 8 years. We reach 4 years together later this month.

[k425.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on 8 years, from a total Marmite/salt fan.

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

what she said :-)

[ahruman.livejournal.com]

There are two reasons I can think of for feeding Marmite to kids:

1. To scare them off – Marmite is a gateway drug to, er, more Marmite.
2. Because You’re Evil.

I think the latter is rather more credible.

Oh yes, congratumathingy.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

happy anniversary :) also, bovril > marmite

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

Marmite is good stuff. Too much is bad, but it's salt (necessary, unlike refined sugar) and B vitamins (which it's a good source of). Which I think someone already said, but I back them up on this.

Even whipped cream is good for some things - vitamins A and D. Marmite is positively virtuous by comparison. Why not?