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It's a punishment for buying rubbish instead of bread. Or else it has something to do with the fact that custard smells and tastes like bananas...

Don't you like marmite? Some people would be delighted if their bread smelt of marmite! (Not me, however.)

Posted by: Nossie | 21/08/2007

i haven't smelt kingsmill... or marmite

so i am afraid i do not know

good day to you..!

Posted by: Cat | 22/08/2007

Cat, you haven't lived!
Marmite sucks, and your kingsmill shouldnt smell like it!

Posted by: iluvdeejay@hotmail.co.uk | 22/08/2007

Cat, you haven't lived!
Marmite sucks, and your kingsmill shouldnt smell like it!

Posted by: natalie | 22/08/2007

I read the ingredients for kingsmill. Far from being "wheat flour, water" as is usually the case in bread, it's full of stuff! E4-something-or-other, chemical this, flavour that, they even stick in vitamin C! It's not a fruit, it's a loaf of bread! I don't want citric acid in my bread! I want flour and water! That's why i'm having a slice of bread and not an orange!

Silly bread people.

Posted by: DJ | 22/08/2007

I read the ingredients for kingsmill. Far from being "wheat flour, water" as is usually the case in bread, it's full of stuff! E4-something-or-other, chemical this, flavour that, they even stick in vitamin C! It's not a fruit, it's a loaf of bread! I don't want citric acid in my bread! I want flour and water! That's why i'm having a slice of bread and not an orange!

Silly bread people.

Posted by: DJ | 22/08/2007

Why are you all commenting twice?? Saying the same thing! STOPPIT.

DJ, it is only your loaf of Kingsmill bread that smells like marmite. This smell was put there in order to confuse your poor innocent mind.

Please send Cat a slice of the bread so that she may smell, for the first time, Kingsmill bread AND marmite.

Posted by: helen | 22/08/2007

But you have to put chemicals in bread! It makes it last so much longer, and taste and smell so much better...:p

Also, don't you want yeast in your bread, as well as the flour and water?

Posted by: Nossie | 22/08/2007

That's it! It's the yeast that makes it smell like marmite. Marmite is yeast extract is it not?

Posted by: helen | 22/08/2007

I like marmite. And Kingsmill. Therefore I do not care

Posted by: Ant | 22/08/2007

ahh! yeast! It's the yeast! Yes, very good helen. Kingsmill must use some strange sort of yeast. Kingsmill yeast.

Helen, I bought two loaves just in case something dodgy like that was going on. I haven't yet opened the second loaf, but I shall in due course. I shall smell it and report back ;-)

Nossie, in my experiements and observations with kingsmill bread, I was alarmed to notice that it stays as soft as it was in the packet after being left out in the open for a few of hours. The white bit of a REAL slice of bread starts to go hard after 40-60 or so minutes, let alone a few hours! Is this usual, or did I lose track of time and think 30 minutes was 3 hours, too delirious to realise my mistake?

I also discovered that keeping it in the fridge may have aggravated the marmite smell, so I decided to leave one (of two) loaves of the bread outside for the night (all wrapped up snugly in plastic of course). Whilst I believe the smell to have decreased, it is certainly still there. However, there has been a certain decrease in the spongeyness of the bread by taking such action. Both loaves are currently being chilled.

Is that the correct thing to do?
Would it explode if I stuck it in the freezer? Oh, the things I do not know of Kingsmill.

Posted by: DJ | 22/08/2007

Deej, would you kindly delete the comment in which my email is on view to everyone. Not that anyone reads your blog that doesnt have it anyway :P

Posted by: natalie | 22/08/2007

Deej, I'm impressed to see that you truly are trying hard to discover the reason for this marmite smelling Kingsmill bread. I think your experiments for testing such a thing are wholly worthwhile and I look forward to hearing about the results :P

Posted by: helen | 23/08/2007

I think it's normal for bread like that to stay soft. Chilling it is absolutely fine, as it lengthens the amount of time you can keep it for.

And why not try putting it in the freezer to see if it explodes? :p

Natalie, you're wrong...I didn't have your email address! But on closer inspection, he hasn't deleted it; he's changed it! Rest assured, I will support you in any action you wish to take against him (for example telling him to put the bread in the freezer and then stand by waiting for the explosion).

Posted by: Nossie | 23/08/2007

My policy, I don't delete posts here. I only change them. This is because it's more fun that way.

Posted by: DJ | 23/08/2007

I do love you deej. so much it hurts sometimes.

Posted by: natalie | 23/08/2007

Hey i cheated and got your blog, i hope u dont mind , i am a blogger to hehe from scotland ! and have seen you and cats comments and thought i would say hi :),are u sure you never ate marmite before you smelt the bread :P :)

Posted by: kirsty aka lilmiss | 23/08/2007

You can stand under my umbrella..ella ella ella ella ella ella eh eh eh

*tattoos the word "Bobby" onto Djs buttt cheeks*

Posted by: Bobby | 23/08/2007

ROFL!

There's a cheese that smells and tastes like marmite as well. It's from Switzerland. It's wrong. On so many levels. Just like the people who like it.

Posted by: arty | 24/08/2007

i loooooooove how this crappy little post has got the MOST COMMENTS EVAR :P

Posted by: Cat | 24/08/2007