Where's
my
Marmite!

Alun Jones (alun@eden.com) writes:

Alright, where's the Marmite info? I can find Bovril in this country, but decent Marmite is very difficult to track down - somehow, the supermarkets here have found a way to make the stuff go off.

Yours,
A Frustrated English Marmite User

Michael Stewart Copp replies:

Hello to the frustrated Marmite person,

I seem to remember seeing Marmite occasionally in some of the specialty shops around this area. But with this area being southeastern New Brunswick, that may not be much help to you. I suspect it may be our somewhat closer proximity to the Kingdom that allows us access to slightly more obscene mixtures than the rest of North America (Perhaps you could try a Marks & Spencers?).

...and Alun responds:

You have Marks and Spencers in Canada? Maybe it's the French influence - St Michael / St Michel, who can tell the difference?

The only regular high-street shop from England that I can see mention of around here (in Austin, Texas) is the occasional high-priced bottle of Boots shower gel. They've priced it (and are marketing it) as if it were some kind of designer label. It always gives me a good snicker when I see it in Dillards or some such department store.

It's quite heart-wrenching sometimes to find that the only place you can buy Sherbet Fountains, Dip-Dabs, Marmite and Bovril is the "Exotic / Ethnic Foods" section. Ah well, I shouldn't complain too much - after all, I can afford to live here, and the parents don't visit quite so often.

Michael laments:

It's always a saddening thing for me when I come across you poor, displaced Brits, cut off from your homeland and pining for your unique liquids. Having been born and bred in the colonies, I receive only pleasure when, for the first time, I stumble over the bizarre English collection of ancient fluids. What can be done to help you people? Perhaps mail order Marmite over the Internet... hmmm...

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