WEEEEEEEEKEND!

[NoFastMem]

I can't relax 'though, 'cause last thing today we set a roomful of machines off to ghost, everyone else left and when I went to check on them the broadcast had just borked completely. I hate leaving things unfinished. On the plus side, I only have to pay £11 in tax this month!

Marmite: Discuss.

[Karlos]

NoFastMem wrote:

Marmite: Discuss.

Sold as "yeast extract", Marmite is really processed tholin (a thick, black tarry organic substance), which is secretly shipped from specialist extraction facilities on Titan. Raw tholin is harvested from drainage channels and basin areas, processed by the facilites there and then boosted into orbit by a mass driver.

Once in orbit, ion propulsion is employed to accelerate the tholin containers into the suns gravity well where they travel for years before decelerating the last few months into a steady earth orbit. They are then recovered by specialist probes maintained by the IIS and their contents either shipped back by returning shuttle flights, or carefully allowed to aerobrake against the atmosphere and fall to splashdown for recovery.

The processed tholin is then packaged as marmite and sold to the customer.

Not to be confused with vegemite, which is actually processed turd.

[odin]

Filþ!

[NoFastMem]

Karlos wrote:

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The processed tholin is then packaged as marmite and sold to the customer.

Not to be confused with vegemite, which is actually processed turd.

:lol:

Am I making an ass of u and me in assuming you're not a fan? ;-)

I like it on pasta, I was kinda bummed out to find they'd manufactured a limited number of jars of Guinness Marmite and I'd missed out.

[mel_zoom]

I tried marmite recently. It resembled road tar and tasted of not much more than salt.

I dont think Ill be having it again any time soon!

[Karlos]

@Chris

I just don't find the notion of something that looks like it has been scraped out of the soiled nappy of a somewhat unwell infant and subsequently smeared on toast or whatever very appetising ;-)

[Karlos]

Incidentally, why is it considered vegeterian / vegan friendly when every pot contains the microscopic innards of countless trillions of previously living animals* that have undergone autolysis as a result of being exposed to high salt concentrations and then boiled to death?

I mean, it's just as barbaric as boiling lobsters alive...

*yeast are eukaryotic.

[NoFastMem]

Karlos wrote:
Incidentally, why is it considered vegeterian / vegan friendly when every pot contains the microscopic innards of countless trillions of previously living animals* that have undergone autolysis as a result of being exposed to high salt concentrations and then boiled to death?

I mean, it's just as barbaric as boiling lobsters alive...

*yeast are eukaryotic.

Eukaryotes, as I understand the term, are basically any organism with cell nuclei... and that includes plants, fungi, etc.

:-?

Since yeast is/are basically fungal and consensus is that fungi are non-sentient, it's fair game for foodstuff.

Even with that aside, my bottom line would be that if I had to worry about every minute cellular organism entering my body I'd have trouble breathing with a clear conscience. :-)


Edit:

Regarding the lobster analogy, a lot of vegetarians seem unhappy to attribute comparative capacities for suffering to different types of animals (save for a minority who think it's okay to call themselves vegetarian and still eat chicken.)

I differ in that regard, and just as I'd say boiling a person or a cow causes more suffering than boiling a lobster, boiling a lobster causes more suffering than boiling a microscopic animal. They just don't have the capacity to suffer in the same way.

[Karlos]

As far as I recall, yeast are classified as animals though due to their full range of compatible metabolic processes. A quick look on Wiki says they are classified as fungi, despite this. I pointed out that they are eukaryotic in case someone tried to suggest they are lesser organisnm - such as those without nuclei ;-)

That and the fact I was mostly taking the p*ss...

[NoFastMem]

Karlos wrote:

That and the fact I was mostly taking the p*ss...

And I swore I'd never be The Humourless Veggie. :/ Sorry mate.

[Turambar]

Karlos wrote:

Sold as "yeast extract"

It's actually a yeast infection....

[odin]

Yay. Whiskeyfestivals are fun. Any other Ardbeg and Laphroaig fans around? =)

I was pleasantly suprised that there are 2 Dutch (well, 1 Frisian) single malts which suprisingly aren't half bad, the Frisian was actually quite pleasant.

[Karlos]

NoFastMem wrote:

Karlos wrote:

That and the fact I was mostly taking the p*ss...

And I swore I'd never be The Humourless Veggie. :/ Sorry mate.

That's ok. Still, I would have thought you'd know me better than to come out with something like that and be serious, by now :lol:

[leema1290]

Marmite: Discuss.[/quote]

Take one small Baguette, add butter, marmite, and beef or beef n mustard hoola hoops, mmmmmmm

[PMC]

@Odin

Oh yeah!  Me....!  I love Ardbeg, especially with a mix of mineral water.  It's got a very smoky flavour, which I really, really like...

[historical bollocking-on]

Amazingly, the tradition of the scottish distilleries only dates back a couple of hundred years or so.  Whiskey was in fact illegal in Scotland until the early 19th century.  Before then, the Scots tipple of choice was claret.  

[/historical bollocking-on]

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Marmite/vegemite tastes awful.  I cannot imagine it tasting worse if it were made with a Grimsby prostitute's knickers.