Archived Questions Goto Qn. Is there an American equivalent of Marmite or Vegemite? I don't believe there is a direct equivalent in the US. In Australia, there is a product called vegemite which is altogether blander than marmite. Currently voted the best answer. While they do not seem to be produced in the US, they are available there: "While Vegemite has never been popular in the US, it can still be purchased at supermarkets that stock imported food items. Get a new mixed Fun Trivia quiz each day in your email.
Marmite used to be made in London. The product became so popular that the company's factory in Burton-on-Trent could not keep up so they converted a former brewery in Vauxhall, south London to create a second plant. One resident of the area recalls on a local history blog: "When I was a kid we lived near the Marmite factory at Vauxhall.
The smell from the factory was disgusting! People living close by applied to have their rates reduced because of the stench they failed of course. A sculpture has been built in Marmite's honour.
The sculpture, nicknamed Monumite, now takes pride of place next to the main library in Burton-on-Trent.
Marmite may keep away mosquitoes. Several newspapers, including the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph, have claimed the yeasty spread to be the perfect defence against mozzies. It's good for you. Despite the Danish doubts about the effects on people's health, Marmite could actually be good for you. Nutritionist Melanie Brown says: "Marmite plays such a useful part in many people's diet, and it's incredibly useful for older people who are short in vitamin B It's full of folic acid, and there's lots of evidence that many women, young women of child-bearing age are deficient in folic acid.
Denmark: Marmite could be illegal. Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt. Originally Posted by Buttercup. Will go to Google now. They'd make zero sales with me. Something more specific to and common in the US South, are grits which I cook fairly often. I would probably drink that.
One oddball thing we have in the States is Postum. It is coffee substitute made of wheat. I like it, but I rarely see it. My local supermarket stocks it seasonally. I am not sure what "seasonally" means in this context, because I can't imagine it is in great demand any time of the year. Originally Posted by Wikipedia. Kraft discontinued production of Postum in There's Moxie soda, which is ostensibly an incarnation of one of the original soft drinks.
It's quite medicinal, and probably an acquired taste; I used to love it. When I left New England for grad school, I never saw it anywhere until a few stores when we moved to Florida area with a large Northeast-origin seasonal and permanent population.
But by that time I had stopped drinking it when I had to stop consuming caffeine. I've never heard of it I don't drink coffee myself, but I can't imagine why you'd want to replace it, and with a wheat drink, no less. Is it caffeinated? I'm all for reducing coffee plantations they are environmentally devastating - shade coffee's nicer, but a fraction of the market , but this doesn't seem like a valid way from any direction.
Edited to add: Ah.. Then: CJSF. Originally Posted by pzkpfw. My Wife has been buying "organic" peanut butter. She doesn't eat it. So there are jars of money in the cupboard, slowly reaching their "use by" date. Information about American English usage here.
Floating point issues?
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