Guinness marmite
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I just spent half of my lunchtime looking for marmite in Dublin's stores, including one official Guinness store. They have Guinness clocks, calendars, aprons, St. Paddy's figurines, glasses, towels, openers, postcards, magnets, tshirts, posters, mirrors, keychains, toffi/caramel sweets, but nobody there ever saw marmite, despite having been constantly asked about it by customers. One manager told me she was sure it wasn't in the Gunness catalog. The closest thing they had in stores was Guinness marinade
One shop assistant though, wearing green polo and a 'Patrick' name tag said marmite was a very English thing, quite unlikely to be seen in Ireland.Now that would make perfect sense to me.. I imagine, some 200 years ago a drunken Irishman managed to sell residue from stout brewing to a drunken English snob who started the fashion.
No wonder Irish don't eat it as it's a brewing byproduct, which sounds like a perfect euphemism for rubbish..But then if you're after some delicious kielbasa krakowska, my quest might be more successful.