Nairobi Jack

Marmite: anyone know where i can get it in any of the major superstores in GTA or vicinity rather than the overpriced "British goods" small stores?

dbd33

Loblaws (or whatever Loblaws is called on your block). In the baking aisle, high shelf. Also Amazon.

CanadaJimmy

It used to be more common at every grocery store, Superstore, Walmart etc. but haven't seen it in a while.

dbd33

I buy it fortnightly at Zehr's in Orangeville or Fergus. At peak covid they sold out so I bought a big pot from Amazon.

scrubbedexpat091

My wife used to be able to find it at Wal-Mart and Save On but she has noticed the same, seems to have vanished, also in BC, No Frills in Vancouver sometimes had it, but looking at Save On, Wal-Mart & Super Store websites none of them show it as something they carry, at least when I do a search by name, nothing came up except non-relevant canned goods.

bats

As has been said already, most supermarkets sell it but it's in the baking aisle. Its the same stuff as is sold in the British stores, made in England but without any added B vitamins. Canada doesn't approve of that kind of thing.

scilly

Sobey's (or the stores they own, such as Safeway, etc) usually carry it ........... in the baking aisle!

Siouxie

This

Great Canadian Superstore Don Mills has it - or Instacart

CanadaJimmy

Which is strange because Health Canada *require* B vitamins to be added to vegan/vegetarian substitute meat products, which is a big part of why Quorn isn't in Canada (they refuse to fortify it).

scrubbedexpat091

Looking into a little deeper, its not that Canada is against foods being enriched with vitamins and minerals, it's just like many countries the rules are different, and Marmite appears not to fall within the categories that can be enriched.

Apparently the Canadian version may also contain different ingridients as well, so its not an exact copy of the UK, either way its vile to my nose so it never made it into my mouth the one time my wife tried to get me to try it.....

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/...-D.03.002.html


Irn Bru if I recall had to have a Canadian formuation as well as the UK version was (is still?) using a color additive called Ponceau 4R which is banned in Canada and the US (appears also Norway and possibly Finland).

Shard

Marmite flavoured beer launched in the UK recently. Think I'll stick to having it on toast.

Siouxie

Did you manage to get some? When you say "GTA" is there a specific area within it you are looking?

BristolUK

Beer on toast. That's an interesting concept.

mikelincs

Marmite apparently being touted as a cure for covid because of the vitamins it contains.

dbd33

Does one inject it or feed it to one's horse?