M**mite is less availablr here than previously reported

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Aug 27th 2007, 1:30 am

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I can't answer that, but I do know I had never heard of M**mite when I left the UK, but then I was a naive 16 year old back then.

I don't know when it hit the UK shores as I never had it, but my sis who was a kid of the 70's lived on the stuff

Aug 27th 2007, 1:31 am

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I can't answer that, but I do know I had never heard of M**mite when I left the UK, but then I was a naive 16 year old back then.

You obviously had caring parents. I envy you.

Aug 27th 2007, 1:31 am

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You make an excellent point. It's just that I am completely sure that the gift would have been very well received and become, perhaps, a subject of amusing light banter.

or the invite would never have been repeated and you would have been sent packing with yer jar

Aug 27th 2007, 1:34 am

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I don't know when it hit the UK shores as I never had it, but my sis who was a kid of the 70's lived on the stuff

A form of Marmite has apparently been around since 1680 but Marmite as a product in the UK has been around since 1902.

http://www.ilovemarmite.com/marmite-history.asp

Aug 27th 2007, 1:35 am

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I don't know when it hit the UK shores as I never had it, but my sis who was a kid of the 70's lived on the stuff

Surely you're not suggesting that this foul concoction was imported to the Elysian Fields by furriners? Some sort of conspiracy to pollute our precious bodily fluids, I'll warrant.

I'll not stand for that. To arms!!!

Aug 27th 2007, 1:35 am

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A form of Marmite has apparently been around since 1680 but Marmite as a product in the UK has been around since 1902.

http://www.ilovemarmite.com/marmite-history.asp

Well thank Dog for that! At least it's self-inflicted.

Aug 27th 2007, 1:36 am

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A form of Marmite has apparently been around since 1680 but Marmite as a product in the UK has been around since 1902.

http://www.ilovemarmite.com/marmite-history.asp

thank god we were poorer in the 60's and therefore it never crossed my lips

Aug 27th 2007, 1:37 am

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thank god we were poorer in the 60's and therefore it never crossed my lips

How about caviar?

Aug 27th 2007, 1:41 am

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I have on numerous occasions and she just smiles and pats me on the head, should I be concerned.

Oh I think concerned is right. She obviously takes you for a doddery old fool. Ditch the bitch, is my advice.

Aug 27th 2007, 1:41 am

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How about caviar?

I'm not a fish eater either, so have never had the (yuk) pleasure of fish eggs. Remind me not to invite you to my bbq

Aug 27th 2007, 1:45 am

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Oh I think concerned is right. She obviously takes you for a doddery old fool. Ditch the bitch, is my advice.

We discussed this same topic just yesterday while doing our grocery shopping and came to the conclusion that at his stage in life we can ill afford to do this.

It would be financial disaster for both of us.

Luckily for me it was a theoretical discussion.

Aug 27th 2007, 1:46 am

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I'm not a fish eater either, so have never had the (yuk) pleasure of fish eggs. Remind me not to invite you to my bbq

I would be the first to accept that BBQ'ing caviar might be ill-advised.

Trout, on the other hand..... ummmmm.

Aug 27th 2007, 1:47 am

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Luckily for me it was a theoretical discussion.

So, aside from m**mite, what else did you buy?

Aug 27th 2007, 1:48 am

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Trout, on the other hand..... ummmmm.

Seconded... a long time ago two friends and I went trout fishing in southeast BC did actually manage to catch some and cooked them over a camp fire, absolutely scrumptious.