Marmite banned in Denmark

MrMatisse

What a ridiculous country

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8533896/Marmite-made-illegal-in-Denmark.html

Monty Burnz

Countries in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

sock puppet

So plus 5 million for the hate column.

Latchy

A study by the OECD on high for quality of life . On the broadest and most subjective measure of life satisfaction — consumers being asked if they were happy — Britain ranked 15th out of 34. Denmark was happiest, followed by Canada, Norway and Switzerland.

Might be time to ditch the Marmite :pac:

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deman

Absolutely crazy. Ok, I don't like it myself but that's beside the point. And to ban something like Rice Krispies?? I guess they want more people eating bacon for breakfast. Nice healthy choice.

Sparks43

Denmark

You either love it or you hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!



Oh **** thats Marmite :pac:

Zebra3

MrMatisse wrote: »

What a ridiculous country

Yeah, much better to give a load of religious scum the chance to rape kids with impunity. :rolleyes:

RachaelVO

Well I have no real objection to the stuff being banned, it's god awful sh1te!

I do however think the reason is ridiculous... cos there's added vitamins jebus wept. And so that, they banned Rice Krispies for the same reason. What a bunch of Nordic twats!

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ENItAApdk4

mconigol

I agree with the Shreddies and Ovaltine. Both are terrible.

Surely the few people in the country buying the stuff could just get some family or friends to post it over?

kkdela6

marmite should be banned everywhere its absolutely vile

ShooterSF

I love how even though other things have been banned and it is technically against the law they have somehow claimed it's just an anti-England thing. :rolleyes:

Kevin Duffy

I'm gonna get a boat and start smuggling you-know-what into Denmark, sell it at "street" prices.

In this country, first you get the Marmite, then you get the power, then you get the Danish women....

squod

MrMatisse wrote: »

What a ridiculous country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12YJNcIvbq8

Da Shins Kelly

I reckon they've got the right idea.

stovelid

Bovril does the same job. No worries.

TheUsual

Marmite is only eaten by Australians.
I reckon the Danish just want to get rid of their illegal-aussie problem.

chimpo85

TheUsual wrote: »

Marmite is only eaten by Australians.
I reckon the Danish just want to get rid of their illegal-aussie problem.

Is it not vegimite that Aussies love? I live with one and he survives solely on the stuff...bloody nice too! Marmite on the other hand, no thanks!

dlofnep

Why would they ban things for having extra vitamins? That doesn't make sense. Surely that's a good thing? Banning Rice Krispies should result in a mass UN carpet bombing assault. That's unforgivable.

Irish Guitarist

"They don't like it because it's foreign," she said. "But if they want to take my Marmite off me they'll have to wrench it from my cold dead hands."

That's the best quote I've heard or read in ages.

Capt'n Midnight

dlofnep wrote: »

Why would they ban things for having extra vitamins?

A,D,E and K are fat soluble and so you can accumulate too much. Even if you are starving to death, don't eat polar bear liver !

Too much Vitamine C can lead to kidney stones maybe, and maybe some of the B vitamines aren't good in excess.

That doesn't make sense. Surely that's a good thing? Banning Rice Krispies should result in a mass UN carpet bombing assault. That's unforgivable.

Kellogs "fortify" cereals with vitamines because cereals aren't that rich in vitamines to begin with and the intense processing doesn't help at all.

"The box is more nutritious than the cornflakes" has been a long running joke


another thing to remember is that we burn less calories than in the past, central heating, labour saving devices and motorised transport mean that while we may need the same amount of some minerals, we should eat higher quality foods in order to do so without the extra calories that we don't burn.

Midnight_EG

MrMatisse wrote: »

What a ridiculous country

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8533896/Marmite-made-illegal-in-Denmark.html

Want ridiculous, click me...

jive

^ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Kinder-Joy.jpg

what are those bad boys

deman

Marmite vs Vegemite taste test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-878Nc4gzPA

Duckjob

"But if they want to take my Marmite off me they'll have to wrench it from my cold dead hands."

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

That's the best quote I've heard or read in ages.

And it's twice as funny when you read it out in a belligerent Yorkshire accent.

Cravez

Is that stuff still around? All I remember is the adverts in the 90's, with the 'love it or hate it' theme it always portrayed

Alun

Michael Cravez wrote: »

Is that stuff still around? All I remember is the adverts in the 90's, with the 'love it or hate it' theme it always portrayed

It certainly is!! And you can get it in handy squeezy bottles now too

Anyway, it wouldn't take much of a court case to establish that the Danes are in contravention of EU law here seeing as it's not legal to ban a foodstuff in one country that's legal in the rest of the EU.

ISDW

I know it'll spoil the fun of this thread, but Marmite isn't actually banned in Denmark, it has never been sold there. To sell any foodstuffs in Denmark you have to have a licence for it, one has never been applied for in the case of Marmite. Apparently one 'English' shop was selling it, so as it isn't licensed, they were told to stop.

The makers of Marmite are now considering applying for a license to sell it in Denmark.

Wibbs

deman wrote: »

Absolutely crazy. Ok, I don't like it myself but that's beside the point. And to ban something like Rice Krispies?? I guess they want more people eating bacon for breakfast. Nice healthy choice.

Actually you could argue quite easily that it is the more healthy choice. Certainly compared to almost raw starch with added sugar that's been so heavily processed they have to add back vitamins and minerals, some of which would have been there in the first place before they industrialised the product.

Alun

ISDW wrote: »

I know it'll spoil the fun of this thread, but Marmite isn't actually banned in Denmark, it has never been sold there. To sell any foodstuffs in Denmark you have to have a licence for it, one has never been applied for in the case of Marmite. Apparently one 'English' shop was selling it, so as it isn't licensed, they were told to stop.

The makers of Marmite are now considering applying for a license to sell it in Denmark.

Actually, it's supposedly only these so-called fortified foods that need a "licence", licensing every single foodstuff on sale would be seriously unworkable due to sheer numbers.

See http://www.amblondon.um.dk/NR/exeres/8A56692E-1780-495E-8176-F0E366653F52,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published

Actually, I'm surprised the Dane's are being allowed to get away with this legislation as there are a few other cases of this kind of thing being squashed at EU level in the past. If it's legally for sale anywhere in the EU it can be sold all over the EU, end of.

--Kaiser--

Wibbs wrote: »

Actually you could argue quite easily that it is the more healthy choice. Certainly compared to almost raw starch with added sugar that's been so heavily processed they have to add back vitamins and minerals, some of which would have been there in the first place before they industrialised the product.

My dad always said I'd be better off eating the cardboard box than the cereal. I used to think he was being facetious, now I think he's probably right

noxqs

Its a license for fortified foods (added vitamins) which was introduced to keep track of which types of food is 'fortified' with vitamins in Denmark. The licensing is a formality and almost all are approved. I think only candy etc is not accepted to be fortified.

Marmite didn't have one and was told to stop selling it until they did. If it was unfortified marmite it wouldn't be a problem. Why would it?

ISDW

Alun wrote: »

Actually, it's supposedly only these so-called fortified foods that need a "licence", licensing every single foodstuff on sale would be seriously unworkable due to sheer numbers.

See http://www.amblondon.um.dk/NR/exeres/8A56692E-1780-495E-8176-F0E366653F52,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published

Actually, I'm surprised the Dane's are being allowed to get away with this legislation as there are a few other cases of this kind of thing being squashed at EU level in the past. If it's legally for sale anywhere in the EU it can be sold all over the EU, end of.

Sorry, you're right of course, it is fortified foods.

Don't know how true that is though about if something is freely available in other EU countries, I know its not a foodstuff, but gripe water is no longer on sale in Eire, but you can get it across the border no problem.

Alun

ISDW wrote: »

Don't know how true that is though about if something is freely available in other EU countries, I know its not a foodstuff, but gripe water is no longer on sale in Eire, but you can get it across the border no problem.

I'd imagine gripe water would fall under the umbrella of medicines which are still under the control of the individual member states' medicines boards.

There have been a number of high profile cases regarding individual countries trying to impose their own conditions on foodstuffs that were overturned, one of the notable ones being the German Reinheitsgebot for beer. There was also one regarding additives in baguettes that the French lost too.