Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Anthony Darby]

I was born in Derbyshire, so that doesn't qualify a s a soft Southerner.

Also have Scottish blood so appreciate the value of things 

[Gerry Webster]

Cheeky 

You see Ron I don't know why but there's a view on this Forum (especially from members overseas; soft southerners; macho northerners and those who don't fit anywhere) that Yorkshiremen are tight. We're not tight, just careful. Very careful!

You speak for yourself David. I'm tight. Very tight.

[Lesley Cox]

My vegemite has January 2011 expiry date.

Does this give you an excuse not to eat it, or a thrill that it is such a good product? I prefer Marmite, myself.

[Lesley Cox]

Helen

Is marmite the same as vegemite? If so I have seen one or the other at Pete's Frootique in the UK section.

Tell me more about Keen's curry.  Have you found Major Gray has gone into a slide of late?

johnw

John, Marmite is very different to vegemite in taste, at least I think so.
Couldn't eat marmite.

I think most British would say they couldn't eat vegemite.  I love marmite toast.

Marmite is very good with a thickish smear of marg or butter, on Weetbix (Weetabix to you.)

[Lesley Cox]

Anthony, Wattie's was Wattie's was Wattie's started by Sir James of that ilk, until the whole caboodle was bought out/taken over by Heinz but Heinz retained the Watties name for NZ public. Best quality tinned veg and fruit on the market here, as distinct from the stuff that comes in from Taiwan, Korea, Italy etc.

There's nothing remotely sweet about marmite, the thought is ridiculous. I went to read the small print on the jar but I broke my glasses yesterday morning and am wearing an old pair (I look like Deirdre Barlow before her transformation, owl-like) so until I get to the optician, small print isn't an option for me. Even then.....

[Lesley Cox]

I wouldn't have sent Helen those seeds if I'd known she was going to be so rude about Marmite!

[Casalima]

I think most British would say they couldn't eat vegemite.  I love marmite toast.

Marmite is very good with a thickish smear of marg or butter, on Weetbix (Weetabix to you.)

Weetabix - oh god!!!    Toast, definitely. I avoid Marmite except when I am in England, otherwise it does horrid things to my butter consumption! But on toast (or just plain good bread), please!!! Weetabix ... I am still trying to get round the idea 

[Anthony Darby]

Weetabix is what the British renamed the Australian cereal called Weet-bix. I usually eat them four at a time with milk (and occasionally a dollop of cream to relive my non-homogenised youth) and soft brown sugar.

[maggiepie]

My vegemite has January 2011 expiry date.

Does this give you an excuse not to eat it, or a thrill that it is such a good product? I prefer Marmite, myself.

Horses for courses, Lesley.
Nothing as good as buttered vitawheats ( now those I REALLY miss, nothing remotely like them in Canada that I have seen) with vegemite.
Yummm.

[maggiepie]

I wouldn't have sent Helen those seeds if I'd known she was going to be so rude about Marmite!

Oh dear Lesley, am soooooooooooooo sorry to hear that, especially since I had something extremely RARE to send you!!

Will have to look around for a vegemite lover!!

 

[Kim]

Lesley,
NZ Marmite IS sweet compared with the UK version of which I'm particularly fond. In NZ "Our Mate" is the equivalent of UK Marmite.
I have found even baked beans out here are not so savoury as the UK version. New Zealanders seem to have a very sweet tooth.

Kim

[Lesley Cox]

I'll have a look for "Our Mate" then. I think I've seen it in the supermarket. I don't like weetbix with milk, they just go to sludge but crisp with butter and marmite, OK.

I think NZers DO have a sweet tooth generally. Look at the way our kids gulp down soft drinks and garbage of that kind. And I'm partial to an ice-cream or two on a hot day. Mind you, by the time I've ploughed my way through a large cake of chocolate, I really long for a good salty cheese.

Helen, I take back every word I said.

[Anthony Darby]

I'll have a look for "Our Mate" then. I think I've seen it in the supermarket. I don't like weetbix with milk, they just go to sludge but crisp with butter and marmite, OK.

You must eat much more slowly that I do. They are far too dry to eat without milk. I had a "melting moment" with lunch (which was various bits of left over cheese on toast with Pinot Noir jelly sold for going with cheese - btw jelly is not jam) today. Couldn't eat it all as it was too dry. My mouth got gummed up!

[annew]

I enjoyed the Yorkshire joke. An Irish friend once told me that copper wire was invented when a Yorkshireman and a Scot were fighting over a penny.

[David Nicholson]