NZ Marmite is widely misunderstood or mistaken: Americans consider it a masochistic health-spread while Europeans confuse it with the diesel-based English Marmite, rightly running screaming from any product of the same name..
recently an Australian friend came to stay for two weeks in our Madrid apartment. like all self-professed Vegemite lovers, his secret and terrifying desire for Sanitarium Marmite was not safe for long. so it followed that in those two weeks we lost another half-kilo jar of our sacred spread: his morning toast leathered black and eaten in the image of patriotic shame. a strange kind of loneliness is settling in whose source is that last 500g jar standing resolutely amidst a veritable freakshow of European spreadables. the situation is nothing short of grim: my wife (a Spaniard) now considers that Sanitarium Marmite on toast renders hundreds of years of European breakfast tradition entirely obsolete: an iron-enriched lever that propels her from bed. my Spanish cat makes unsettling guttural sounds - sounds that appear to come from beyond his body - when he sees the logo.. has any Kiwi managed to find a steady source of Sanitarium Marmite in Europe? in B12 we trust, -- julian oliver http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net messages containing HTML will not be read. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
