Sign of an old fogie #33 - Do you eat marmalade ?

[KnackeredBike]

I'm with you...

...I love marmalade, hate children

Hate marmalade, hate children too. Actually not children, just people in general.

 

[Cubist]

At school we had marmalade at breakfast and teatime. Great stuff, Robinsons Golden Shred scooped into bowls from huge catering tins.

Nowadays it's Frank Cooper Oxford for me, although Mrs Cube occasionally gets Sainsbury three fruits. Edible, but it ain't Oxford thick cut.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Strange that the research suggests most kids are growing up never having tried it. My 6 year old daughter likes it, she used to ask me to pick the bits out but now she recognizes that they're the highlight.

 

[Arjimlad]

I love it.

I make it with Ma-Made which I mix up with two thirds dark soft brown or Demerara sugar, a third ordinary caster sugar, then I add in ginger, cloves, a bit of mixed spice and in the latest batch, a glug of whisky. Made for an almost mulled-marmalade flavour !

And my daughter likes it aged 6, my 16 yr old son likes it too.

 

[rich p]

Doubt if my kids, 33 and 35, ever eat it. Nor their kids either.
When do you all eat it? I only have a slice of toast once or twice a week and the go-to spread is always Marmite.

 

[User482]

A local woman makes gallons of the stuff and sells it through the butcher's for about £1.50 a jar. Result.

As an aside, Marmelada (Portuguese quince paste) is very nice with cheese.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

When do you all eat it? I only have a slice of toast once or twice a week and the go-to spread is always Marmite.

Only every day.

 

[rich p]

Only every day.

For breakfast?
It's just gloopy sugar innit?

 

[PK99]

Many years ago the Institute of Physics published a book of physics anecdotes - "A random walk in science"

One explained the historical division in England between the Arts/Humanities and Science in terms of Marmalade and German.

from elsewhere:
H B Casimir's essay When does Jam Become Marmalade? in the wonderful A Random Walk in Science is about how the British make a distinction between "jam" and "marmalade" that is nearly incomprehensible to foreigners. Well, it's actually about how the British make a distinction between "science" and other branches of learning which is hard to make in German or Dutch; but jam/marmalade is the vehicle for his point. –

edit: just found a link to the whole piece:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UGGhM2XKE_0C&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

That's surely related to Marmite is it not?

You are thinking of the campaign for a referendum on Marmalexit

That's a winner !!!
I'll push that through Parliament right away.

 

[spen666]

Hate marmalade, hate children too. Actually not children, just people in general.

I certainly couldn't eat a whole one- child or adult

 

[wormo]

I most definitely do, and it's one of the few items that I'm prepared to "GO PREMIUM" and not buy own brand.

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After my own homemade marmalade, this is my favourite brand but thick cut for me as well.

 

[Chromatic]

Marmalade is ace, especially this:

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Home made marmalade here. Daughters are always pinching a jar to take home.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Love a bit of marmalade on toast for breakfast.