@tek Hint: try layering it on your sandwich with (a) peanut butter, OR (b) really strong mature cheddar.
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I came at it from a different direction and use a couple slices of mild Swiss cheese, rather than a strong cheddar. It becomes a lightly salty umami experience.
I'm sitting here pondering the peanut butter. I eat peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, so I'm not immediately against the idea. But I'm also wondering if there's any significant differences between USA peanut butter and UK peanut butter. I mean, do you mix curry into it or such? 😁
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Oh, gods. I just tempted the chaos. Sigh. I accept responsibility for peanut butter curry if it didn't already exist, but becomes a thing.
@NuclearOatmeal @tek I will note that to British taste buds, American peanut butter tastes *sweet*.
@cstross @NuclearOatmeal @tek USA peanut butter tends to have sweetener in it. Pure 100% peanut butter is what you want. As to marmite 😍 you'll need toast, butter, a thin thin layer of marmite & some cheese of your choice, Gouda/Edam/Cheddar melted. A fav lunch for me is toast, peanut butter & ginger conserve 😍😍😍
@NuclearOatmeal @tek It's more that ALL foods marketed in the USA have high fructose corn syrup added to bulk them up. Even processed meat. (The only way to avoid it is to cook from basic ingredients.)
@cstross @NuclearOatmeal Even with unprocessed meat. We fatten cows on corn only because we haven't figured out how to gorge them on sugar cane yet.
@cstross People keep telling me to try it with peanut butter! Now I must, For Science™.
I'm intrigued by the cheddar idea, and I'll give it a go.
@tek @cstross Cheddar is a good choice. Spread thin over melted butter on crumpets works too.
Oddly, marmite and honey is a good combo too: sweet and salt.
You really have to grow up eating Marmite. There is a critical period for acquiring a taste for it, and early exposure is essential.
Note: Vegemite and Marmite cannot be substituted for each other, despite superficial similarities. Even Marmite-loving Brits find Vegemite just tastes “wrong”, and Australians feel the same way about Marmite.
@tek Just bear in mind Marmite is *strong*—treat it like a condiment, not a primary ingredient. (If you slather your food in it like jam or peanut butter you will regret it.)
@cstross @paul_ipv6 @tek cream cheese is also a good combination. Used to do that in toast.
@cstross @tek Charlie is of course pulling your leg here.
The proper way to deal with Marmite is to screw the top back onto the jar tightly, drop the whole damn thing in the rubbish (trash) and then preferably embark on a quest to Mordor to destroy it in the fires of Mount Doom. Just to make sure you never, ever have to encounter it again.
There's a reason the manufacturers use "I Hate Marmite" as one of their advertising slogans here in the UK. Really, they do.
@cstross I had previously been advised to try it in, quote, "homeopathic portions". I smeared a very thin layer on my trial cracker and believe that was a good starting dose.