It’s a salt sensitivity thing, rather than a heart thing.
And have you noticed that drinking a warm marmite drink makes your breath absolutely dreadful?
I solved that with gum, myself.
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This all happened early last week. It was also resolved a few days later when Unilever backed down from their price hike after Tesco refused to raise the cost.
Anyway, Bovril is better.
Also: we’re ten months into 2016 and STILL no limited edition Marmite. Boo.
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48% of the country was expecting it…
Um, do monopolies never exist in your economy classes? What about recent hikes in the prices of various drugs for example? Or does it not count when it’s red-blooded American capitalists doing the gouging?
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Well the implication is that if salty brewery leavings, manufactured for local consumption are spiking in price. Despite lack of competition and import based pressures. Then an awful lot of other food is going to be spiking in price, despite claims and expectations laid down by the brexiters. So by extension. More people have nothing to eat in the morning than yesterday, and more will have nothing to eat in the morning in the future.
Its the Big Mac Index in an ascot.
Um, that was pretty clearly a crack about free market fetishism. Which often enough does argue that monopolies are good things and price gouging can’t exist because the totally rational market has just decided that those exorbitant prices are exactly what things are worth now. Or have you not caught the excuses offered by the Martin Skrelli’s of the world?
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…Sounds very freshwater to me…
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Miscegeny!
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Can you drink a pint of Marmite?
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I apologize if I didn’t make this clear; but I do not endorse the contents of my various econ classes(at least not all of the contents, it’s hardly 100% nonsense); The textbook econ usually does admit the concept of ‘market failure’ and ‘monopoly’; but that tends to be treated as an unpleasant and mostly theoretical consideration; to be passed over quickly(with a mention of how Government Regulation can erect barriers to entry) so that happier subjects can be discussed.
You tend not to see Free Marketeers talk about ‘profiteering’ in practice; because that allegation implies that a monopoly or other market-failure condition exists; which means that even Economic Orthodoxy As Endorsed By Serious Economists calls for regulation. And that isn’t good. More typically, it’s people who have very little sympathy for neoliberal policy(either from the assorted-flavors-of-slightly-socialist left; or from the populist-capitalism right) who use the term.
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Adam Smith was pretty clear on the danger of cartels - I am sure that if he was around today he would be jumping up and down pointing out that multinationals mean that the invisible hand is being trumped by the all too visible big boot.
Economics nowadays seems to consist either of so-called bank economists telling us not to look at the man behind the curtain, or baby steps books written by people one wouldn’t trust to buy milk efficiently.
The second type is no worse than physics textbooks which mention Newton’s laws as if reality was an inconvenient distraction from theory.
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I LOVE Marmite and Vegimite, especially Marmite XO.
How have I never tried Bovril, has anyone here? Is it any good?
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Does your wife sing this song to you (not safe for work)?
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The Somewhat-Ignorant-American chiming in here:
Marmite - I thought it was a small furry animal, or burrowing insect.
Bovril - I thought it was a medication for bovines.
Vegemite - I know what that is, already.
I’ve never tasted any of the above. I don’t really want to, either. Caviar, too, for that matter.
However, I’m aware that Brexit, besides being a poor portmanteau, may not really be a good thing for the UK, or for the world. I think right now that’s all I need to know, because I have other, closer things to deal with in my life at the present time. But I will do my best to remain aware and learn more as the situation develops.
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I heard Quitaly this weekend…
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I buy it before I buy marmite. Lovely stuff.
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It’s Quitaly today, but it will be Shitaly tomorrow.
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I assume they’re very much like Republicans in that it goes without saying?
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I love this.
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Theyre all extremely useful as umami bombs in cooking. You stir a little into a dish. Not so much that anything tastes like what you just added. But you get great gobs of savory glutimates out of it. Makes things taste richer and meatier.
I wouldn’t recommend eating it outright if it doesn’t sound like your sort of thing. It’s a bit like spreading bullion paste on toast. Or drinking fish sauce or gravy master straight. Powerful stuff. But it’s worth keeping around. And it’s cooking use seems to be making this stuff more available stateside.
Pretty sure I’ve seen that at Ikea.
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