Marmite and Danish Blue cheese

Ragnar Lothbrok · 13-09-2018 4:46pm #1

I go home for lunch from work every day as I live very close to my job. Almost every day I have 4 slices of wholemeal toast with butter and Marmite. Today for a change, I had bread (untoasted) with Marmite and hash browns, which was OK but not as good as plain Marmite.

Even the thought of Marmite on toast makes my mouth water (it's watering even as I type this). Danish Blue cheese is the only other foodstuff that has this effect on me - but I would NEVER mix the two of them.

My son and my girlfriend are violently sick at the very thought of eating Marmite, despite my attempts to convince them of its almost perfect taste and texture.

So, I'm just wondering what are people's thoughts on Marmite (or Danish Blue cheese), and what foods make your mouth water or make you reach for the sick bucket?

Sonics2k · 13-09-2018 4:46pm

I think you're literally Satan, and you need to be purged.

Potential-Monke · 13-09-2018 4:47pm

Sound. I was just about to go on my lunch, and now i'm not hungry...

Ragnar Lothbrok · 13-09-2018 4:49pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

I think you're literally Satan, and you need to be purged.

Well, I do work in the public service, so some people certainly accuse me of that

Tom Mann Centuria · 13-09-2018 4:49pm

I like both, but was worried op mixed marmite and blue cheese together.

Day Lewin · 13-09-2018 4:53pm

Although both Marmite and Danish Blue are all very nice and good in their way, to mix either (or BOTH) of them with Guinness would be an instant emetic.
That vile, bitter brown "drink" that tastes like rusty, muddy seawater.

Graces7 · 13-09-2018 5:02pm

wholemeal toast with thick butter and heaped with home made blackberry jam...

re marmite... Love it but folk make the mistake of spreading it like butter or jam... It needs a bare., mere barely visible smear. The taste is so strong and salty that a little goes a very long way....

hey do they still make twiglets?

david65 · 13-09-2018 5:06pm

I agree with Grace, a smear of Marmitel on hot buttered toast is spot on and Grace I had forgotten about Twiglets and yes they are still made by Jacobs

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-09-2018 6:16pm

I can't stomach either but they both seem to be among those foods that people either love or hate, with no middle ground. I've spent time all over the world and have tried many unusual foodstuffs but Marmite & Danish Blue are among those I'd choose to avoid. Lutefisk and Kimchi are acquired tastes but I'd choose them over marmite.

Annasopra · 13-09-2018 6:20pm

I like blue cheese with blackcurrant jsm

Hector Bellend · 13-09-2018 6:21pm

Can you not just watch porn and have a fry up and a beer if you live that close to work?

JupiterKid · 13-09-2018 6:41pm

Funnily enough I don't like marmite all that much but I adore twiglets - to the point of near addiction.

Shame you can't get them here - only in the UK. I've been known to drive all the way from Dublin to Newry just to stock up on those crunchy snacks...

Danish blue? Nah - too strong. Gorgonzola is the strongest cheese I can stomach and I love cheese.

Odhinn · 13-09-2018 6:44pm

Day Lewin wrote: »

Although both Marmite and Danish Blue are all very nice and good in their way, to mix either (or BOTH) of them with Guinness would be an instant emetic.
That vile, bitter brown "drink" that tastes like rusty, muddy seawater.

You, Sir, should be ejected from society, to dwell in some isolated hut and reflect upon your sin.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 14-09-2018 8:19am

Graces7 wrote: »

re marmite... Love it but folk make the mistake of spreading it like butter or jam... It needs a bare., mere barely visible smear. The taste is so strong and salty that a little goes a very long way....

I smother the bread with it, but it has to be in equal proportion to the butter. A large jar lasts me about a week.

Incidentally, I hate the hot drink that can be made out of Marmite.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 14-09-2018 8:21am

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Can you not just watch porn and have a fry up and a beer if you live that close to work?

Marmite porn? A potential new genre

Graces7 · 14-09-2018 8:57am

Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »

I smother the bread with it, but it has to be in equal proportion to the butter. A large jar lasts me about a week.

Incidentally, I hate the hot drink that can be made out of Marmite.

Now I feel sick!

Graces7 · 14-09-2018 8:59am

david65 wrote: »

I agree with Grace, a smear of Marmitel on hot buttered toast is spot on and Grace I had forgotten about Twiglets and yes they are still made by Jacobs

Now I have a yearning for twiglets and have had to cancel my crossing etc today with the weather.... Mail order anyone?

cstaff · 14-09-2018 9:07am

If you spread peanut butter on some type of flatbread and heat it in the microwave for about 20 seconds, take it out and add sliced apple - absolutely delicious.....

OldGoat · 14-09-2018 10:03am

Marmite and Danish blue? It's nice but it's no Bovril and Roquerfort.

Neyite · 14-09-2018 10:13am

I haven't had marmite in ages...adding it to the shopping list at the weekend so!

I also love blue cheese. That with chutney or chilli jam on a cracker and I'm sorted.

AdamB · 14-09-2018 10:31am

You are almost there! Really fresh soft white bread, a thin layer of real butter, overly generous dollops of marmite (unevenly spread so as to vary its strength with each bite) topped of with a blanket of slivers of Cashel Blue mashed in.... It is strong, it's really powerful, but don't knock it until you try it! I cannot wait for lunch now...

Lorelli! · 14-09-2018 10:43am

I've never tried either so I don't know tbh.

Look at this ad for prune juice. The actors dont look genuinely happy and only one of them actually drinks the stuff, looking like she had gear herself up for the task. I'm not buying it

Ragnar Lothbrok · 14-09-2018 11:11am

AdamB wrote: »

You are almost there! Really fresh soft white bread, a thin layer of real butter, overly generous dollops of marmite (unevenly spread so as to vary its strength with each bite) topped of with a blanket of slivers of Cashel Blue mashed in.... It is strong, it's really powerful, but don't knock it until you try it! I cannot wait for lunch now...

Can't wait to try that! I'm salivating at my desk!

jimgoose · 14-09-2018 11:51am

I adore blue cheese - Danish Blue as well as Stilton, Cashel, Lanark, Gorgonzola, Cambozola and Roquefort. I am aware that this makes me a little odd. Woman, who will eat just about anything including several sorts of food, doesn't like blue cheeses.

Don't ever attempt to toast a blue cheese though, especially Roquefort - the last time I did that the resulting radiation would have levelled a gay Russian cathedral enthusiast. :cool:

Ragnar Lothbrok · 14-09-2018 12:23pm

jimgoose wrote: »

Don't ever attempt to toast a blue cheese though, especially Roquefort - the last time I did that the resulting radiation would have levelled a gay Russian cathedral enthusiast. :cool:

I've never grilled blue cheese, but I have microwaved blue cheese sandwiches. Lovely taste, but my God, the kitchen stinks for about three weeks afterwards :eek:

suicide_circus · 14-09-2018 12:34pm

marmite is the devil's own smegma

Graces7 · 14-09-2018 12:59pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

marmite is the devil's own smegma

whatma? and whatever not at all... full of b vits and kids love it. I have a part jar somewhere but not fancied it for a long while...

suicide_circus · 14-09-2018 1:36pm

well it's an acquired taste, those who spent time in dear old blighty or the antipodes are more likely to have acquired it.

jimgoose · 14-09-2018 1:44pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

well it's an acquired taste, those who spent time in dear old blighty or the antipodes are more likely to have acquired it.

The old story goes that a French peasant-boy abandoned his lunch of bread and ewe's milk cheese in a damp cave upon spotting his amour in the distance and running to embrace her, and when he happened back to the same cave some months later, the Penicillium roqueforti had transformed the humble victual into les pieds de Dieu, le fromage de la belle france. C'est bon!

cml387 · 14-09-2018 1:48pm

I'd neglected Marmite for years until Tescos announced that they'd stop stocking it after a row with the supplier. Then I got some.

Put Marmite on toast and put scrambled eggs on top. Beautiful.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 14-09-2018 2:47pm

cml387 wrote: »

I'd neglected Marmite for years until Tescos announced that they'd stop stocking it after a row with the supplier. Then I got some.

Put Marmite on toast and put scrambled eggs on top. Beautiful.

Tesco have their own version. It's passable, but a million miles away from the real stuff.

As with toilet roll and good bread, I don't mind spending extra to guarantee quality.

Marmite and Danish Blue cheese

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