The news is flying around the internet, but what kind of British site can pass up the opportunity to announce the merger of two iconic brands from the British Isles. In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, Marmite are creating a limited edition Guinness Spread. Once a staple of every WWI soldiers ration pack, Marmite is a vegan spread packed full of vitamins. Rather an acquired taste, Marmite is made from the nutritious yeast by-product of beer brewing. For this Limited Edition, a special recipe has been created that uses 30% of the unique Guinness yeast, giving it a wonderful yet subtle stout flavour. For this release the traditional Marmite bottle is dressed up in the black and white Guinness livery and features thick white cap, just like the finest pint. Supposedly available from the 18th of February it’s not yet been seen around here, but with only 300,000 bottles being produced you’d best keep a sharp eye out and snap one up. The 250g jars of Guinness Marmite retail at £2.49 at most major supermarkets.
Posted by Kate on February 22, 2007 12:00 AM
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My apology for today’s late posting, although I hope I can provide an acceptable excuse. This weekend Dan and I moved into our new house. For the last week we’ve been excitedly painting, cleaning and making quick repairs before the big day; and in the process we found today’s must have for the kitchen.
Keys finally in hand, we entered the kitchen to discover we were faced with years and years worth of grease and grime. Over the cupboards, tiles, counters and even walls lay a tacky brown mess. Despite my revulsion to Cillit Bang’s loud shouting commercials and obnoxious viral marketing, I can’t deny that their Universal Degreaser works really well (and is half price at Tesco). A couple of quick sprays and wipe and the brown muck disappears revealing brilliant colour and bright white tiles and cupboards. It can even be used to clean ovens. Unfortunately the Universal Degreaser isn’t suitable for woods, marble, vitroceramic surfaces, or halogen hobs, though we did use it on our wood front cabinets. They may have lost a bit of lustre, but that seems a reasonable price for loosing all that grease as well. As soon as I find the box with the furniture polish I hope they’ll be good as new! Cillit Bang comes in a 750ml trigger bottle for £2.99 at Ocado's and most other online supermarkets. Known as Easy-off BAM for $5.04
in the US.
Posted by Kate on February 12, 2007 8:05 PM
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