[Its sad when a country runs low on potato chips. Apparently the good folks of New Zealand are very fond of their "crisps" and wet weather has damaged potato crops. It would be like the USA running low on cheeseburgers or Canada running out of poutine. A true national disaster! 😁]
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Re: New Zealand's "chipocalypse" {...
Marmite (/ˈmɑːrmaɪt/ MAR-myte) is the brand name for two similar food spreads: the original British version currently produced by Unilever; and a modified version produced in New Zealand by Sanitarium Health Food Company and distributed in Australia and the Pacific. Marmite is made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. Other similar products include the Australian Vegemite, the Swiss Cenovis and the German Vitam-R.
The British version of the product is a sticky, dark brown food paste with a distinctive, powerful flavour, which is extremely salty. This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company's marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Such is its prominence in British popular culture that the product's name has entered British English as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or tends to polarise opinions.[1][2]
A version with a different flavour[3] has been manufactured in New Zealand since 1919. This is the only product sold as Marmite in Australasia and the Pacific, whereas elsewhere in the world the British version predominates.
The image on the front of the British jar shows a "marmite" (French: [maʁmit]), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot. British Marmite was originally supplied in earthenware pots, but since the 1920s has been sold in glass jars shaped like the French cooking pot.
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[Its sad when a country runs low on potato chips. Apparently the good folks of New Zealand are very fond of their "crisps" and wet weather has damaged potato crops. It would be like the USA running low on cheeseburgers or Canada running out of poutine. A true national disaster! 😁]
Yes, running low on cheeseburgers in America would be terrible. Within a two day period last weekend I ate 13 cheeseburgers including 10 White Castle cheeseburgers and one double cheeseburger from McDonalds. The other two were bacon cheeseburgers. I wanted to mix it up a little.
I guess I overdid it a bit. I normally consume cheeseburgers much less frequently than that and in much smaller quantities.
Re: New Zealand's "chipocalypse" It is true that yeast residue from brewing beer is a really good source of B vitamins.
And if you don't eat a lot of meat, you will be short of B vitamins.
You can think of yeast as meat.