What is it about bears and Marmite?
It’s the only laxative available in the woods.
Mukade
Seems like a bad idea.
Marmite used to be marketed as “The Growing Up Spread”.
If you can get children hooked they become lifetime users, so Paddington Bear, a favourite character for decades and not yet Disneyfied, makes a perfect vehicle for carrying the message to impressionable young minds.
Other recent regulations may reduce the “Paddington effect”. Cartoon characters are no longer permitted to sell food to young consumers, so Coco Pops and Frosties are searching for a new angle to circimvent the ban. So far puppets have not been culled, but could be next on the list, and Paddington’s head may yet grace the mantlepieces of the regulators, alongside Tony the Tiger and the Coco Pops monkey (and all his jungle friends).
Marmite is also now banned in some UK schools, because of the high salt content.
I suspect that part of the hazard of Marmite is amplified by always putting butter on the bread before the cheese. Makes a 1/4 lb. coronary burger from McDonald’s almost benign. 
DWest,
How did you get that little black lamb in your avatar to fetch? This is something . . . unnatural.
That’s really a milk bottle in her mouth disguised as a retrieving bumper. All the sheep in my family are black sheep. 
I don’t think any of it would matter if the kids were allowed to burn off the calories and sweat out the salt, with 20 minutes running around the playground, but these days everyone is so scared of litigation that some schools won’t let the children out.
I once had a small jar of marmite. I think it’s an aquired taste.
Is time for our annual marmite/vegemite thread already?
if we waited 'till spring I could go outside 
Looks like it alright…
I will repeat my first comment…give or take a few words..
“Marmite is pure unadulterated filth. It has the most disgusting taste known to mankind and anybody who would feed it to a poor defenceless child should be taken out and force fed it, and the jar it came in.”
I have never, thank God, tasted Vegemite.
Slan,
D.
How time flys.
I’m pretty sure the bears make it themselves.
You know… like the bees do.
Its bear honey.
give me branstons pickle any day 
dem baars kin keep they MHAR-myte…
I have to say that I’m guilty of addicting my daughter to both Marmite and Vegemite. Heck, they’re loaded with B vitamins, and as Martin said, any kid that’s actually allowed out to run around will sweat off most of the salt.
I love it myself, spread thin on toast…yum!
Redwolf
Hmmm, I wonder what Sodo tastes like …
djm