I have just brought 3 x 600g tubs of Marmite from Costco's .

I think it will last till we come back to visit !!

There are several words which, if typed on these fora, appear as asterixes: might I plead with the moderators to add m**m*te to that list?

Won't anyone think of the children?

Bollocks.

<clearly isn't one of them>

Our movers told us that they don't like to put anything on the contents list that could make the Canadian customs people want to tear your container to shreds. So we didn't put any food in container.

When I went down to the Canada customs to clear our container they couldn't find much to pick at on the list so this guy on a power trip tried to give me a lecture about one of the children's car booster seats.

If pickle would have been on the list they would have had a field day.

MrsW

I don't think the idea is that you list these things on the manifest!

I know but they wouldn't let us pack our own boxes either! I suppose we could have stuffed them in a mattress.

A mattress stuffed with marmite? It's not exactly the French Connection, is it?

Well no, old chap, it's the British Connection.

This has got to be a euphemism.

It is now.

I suppose it should be really but in this case it simply means that I have carried marmite, the yeast based food product, in my luggage on just about every trip between the UK and Canada in the last few years.

I'll leave the euphemisms to the Honda Element drivers.

And Pontiac Shitfire owners.

They have their advantages. Insurance is cheap. We don't even lock it. Who'd nick a 2000 snotfire?

Hee hee, i went to Costco too, and stocked up on plastic buckets of marmite, pickle and tea bags!

I can always get Marmite at Superstore in Regina. Mind you, the first time I went looking for it, I couldn't find it. I went to customer service and they phoned someone else and eventually it transpired that it was with the peanut butter!!

Go figure!

Branston Pickle you can get here. The jar I have in the fridge says "Product of USA - imported by Smucker Foods, Markham, Ontario." However, the jar looks identical to the jars we got in England and it even says "since 1796" or some such date on the front. My husband bought three jars for 49 cents each at the Discount Warehouse which is part of Superstore/Extra Foods.

Still, I don't care. If you get vegetables and cook them up into pickle surely if you use the same recipe it all tastes the same doesn't it? Does to me - but then I will eat anything (except oysters - they look too disgusting to me!!)