Marmite soldiers
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Prenders88
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There is a lot sites here where you can get Marmite. www.expats.org.uk
Or we could petition Tesco's head office in the UK and ask them to stock our favourites in the Tesco store in Udon.
Tony
Or we could petition Tesco's head office in the UK and ask them to stock our favourites in the Tesco store in Udon.
Tony
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valentine
What a forum this is. Just finished writing a serious discourse on the ever changing face of Udon, now I'm replying to the equally serious subject, to some obviously, of the availability of Marmite.Just have to say as a child growing up during the last world war, we were force fed it and as a conseqence, now hate it. 
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just for interests sake I have just come back from three weeks in Hui Hin where I have to say you can get anything,including oxo, bisto sausages, lovelly ham ,oh the list goes on I would truly hate to live there as it abounds with farrings of all races and descriptions as well as being the dearest place in Thailand so Im told . However the goodies in the shops might one day make a revisit worthwhile .
What a forum this is. Just finished writing a serious discourse on the ever changing face of Udon, now I'm replying to the equally serious subject, to some obviously, of the availability of Marmite.Just have to say as a child growing up during the last world war, we were force fed it and as a conseqence, now hate it.
I suffered at the hands of early life in boarding school ,which in turn spinned the point of Marmite is good for you and ye shall eat it for breakfast ,dinner and tea . The school was if i REMEMBER about equally divided when it came to likeing it or hating it . I can however remember with clarity it being the maxim for picking a football team one saturday , Ie marmite eaters on this side , I joined the ranks of the haters which I still fil today, Yes of course we won the game. Marmite eaters where the little fat chubby lads ????
I suffered at the hands of early life in boarding school ,which in turn spinned the point of Marmite is good for you and ye shall eat it for breakfast ,dinner and tea . The school was if i REMEMBER about equally divided when it came to likeing it or hating it . I can however remember with clarity it being the maxim for picking a football team one saturday , Ie marmite eaters on this side , I joined the ranks of the haters which I still fil today, Yes of course we won the game. Marmite eaters where the little fat chubby lads ????
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valentine
AJ, your posting brought memories flooding back. As a kid at the start of WW2, but from the other side of the track, The slums of London..I remember the ladies from the WVS coming in their little Morris8 with the pendant flying from the bonnet, getting out in all their finery, including a fake fox fur round their necks, approaching with a huge jar of marmite, stuffing a spoon full in my mouth, then if I suceeded in swallowing it, patting me on the head and kissing me, saying what a good boy I was.Since then I have had an aversion to ,not only Marmite, but old ladies, the smell of Yardleys lavender water, which they all seemed to wear, being kissed on the head,. and the WVS although the latter subsided when I was in the RAF, their tent served better tea than the NAAFI one.
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valentine
so you had the WVS and I had Aunts , thousands of the buggers. and just like the wvs all sporting fox furs and wearing the most foul smelling lipstick along with enough foundation powder to fuel a war. Fox furs really scared me to death .
You where lucky , they kissed your head , I got full broadsides of it on my face, god I hated family.
On a lighter note your picture is delightfull , I see your mother put your hair in curlers then? Oddly enough I have one that is very similar, at present in the custody of my son who is trying to catch up on family by purloining my collection .
You where lucky , they kissed your head , I got full broadsides of it on my face, god I hated family.
On a lighter note your picture is delightfull , I see your mother put your hair in curlers then? Oddly enough I have one that is very similar, at present in the custody of my son who is trying to catch up on family by purloining my collection .
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valentine
Yes with me to, the intended target was a full frontal on the lips, but in those days I was very fast at turning my head away and it normally ended up being planted somewhere in the region of my ear.
An interesting point about my photo. It was taken by a staff photographer of the London Evening Standard on commission to the Ministry of Food Rationing. They were aware of a shortage of body building foods happening at the outbreak of war and decided to start the original:" Drink a pint of milk a day"campaign. My photo and another young ladies were used on 10ft high billboards all over London to make the point. As there were many properties being boarded up in preparation for hostilites it meant our photo could be seen on nearly every street corner. My 5 minutes of fame I suppose. There was also another shot of the girl and I sharing a bottle with 2 straws which in later years always led my Mum to show to teenage girlfriends with the comment" He's always had eye for the girls.Which got me the reputation that still haunts me today
An interesting point about my photo. It was taken by a staff photographer of the London Evening Standard on commission to the Ministry of Food Rationing. They were aware of a shortage of body building foods happening at the outbreak of war and decided to start the original:" Drink a pint of milk a day"campaign. My photo and another young ladies were used on 10ft high billboards all over London to make the point. As there were many properties being boarded up in preparation for hostilites it meant our photo could be seen on nearly every street corner. My 5 minutes of fame I suppose. There was also another shot of the girl and I sharing a bottle with 2 straws which in later years always led my Mum to show to teenage girlfriends with the comment" He's always had eye for the girls.Which got me the reputation that still haunts me today
I was born in 45 which I know gives you at least 5 years advantage on me . The thing that always gets me about remembering back is the size of what is nowdays called extended family .. my grandfather had seven brothers , my grand mother 5 brothers and 4 sisters, and by the time I was born they in turn had over 46 off spring between them still alive at the end of the war. And they where all in the same area and always turned up for weddings funerals etc. At least half of those we either regulary visited or they visited us . The point Im trying to make is that it was a little like thailand . my g/f sister has a baby and that baby is surrounded all the time by family . There is always some one who has time for her ,some one willing and wanting to teach her . I might be wrong but Thais in the main seem a pretty happy lot to me and maybe that is becuase they have big familys that stick together and there is always love and affection My family over the years has gradually disintergrated. well they are all over the world ,had a governer of kenya and someone pretty high up in India at one time but really would not know now if a relative was on death row in the states or trying to become an apprentice to donald trump . I know for myself the extended family is a part of the appeal of thailand .
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valentine
Eleven years actually AJ. Don't know it could be called an advantage though at this end of the scale. Although I did get to retire to the pastures of Thailand earlier. Interestingly the ladies that found me such an adorable child in earlier years were by now calling me a scruffy urchin, and avoiding me like the plague
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valentine
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Also I was awarded a commemorative jar of marmite (oops! back on topic)
TC
I got mine 2 years ago for 25 years service to the Udon communityTC wrote:I think I ought to have a chat with the Mayor and see if I can get us all OAP bus passes
TC
I've already got mine but I don't think alley cats qualify LOL
Also I was awarded a commemorative jar of marmite (oops! back on topic)
TC
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The Australian equivalent to Bovril is Bonox and it is a hot drink based on beef extracts and vegetable proteins. It nas an aquired taste and YES - I have a years supply of it and Vegemite out here in the rice paddies. Lifes little luxuriesbeer monkey wrote:If TC won't mind changing topic only slightly is BOVRIL any thing like vegimite and marmite, i believe it was non vegetarian up until a couple of years ago,and is spreadable and can also make a hot drink,don't think i've seen that in Thailand either. In some branches of TOPS there is a Marks and spensor section perhaps that is the place to go.
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