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Originally Posted by LazyScot
Unless, of course, you're in Geneva where it seems to be some sort of chocolate pot used to celebrate defeating the French with the aid of some Soup. Or so I've been told.
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Have a look at
Geneva's Escalade. Its a celebration of when invading French troops were defeated, by a woman who spotted them and threw hot vegtable soup all over them from her marmite, her cooking pot. The celebration now has these made of chocolate (sometimes filled with marzipan sweets in place of the vegetables).
Incidentally, the name marmite comes from the pot it was originally sold in (and the shape of which is mirrored in the pots it is still sold in).
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
It tastes nothing like peanut butter.
Umm.... taste. Have you ever drunk Guinness? Imagine that reduced down to a paste, with salt added and the alcohol removed, and it probably tastes nothing like it. But it's the closest I can think of! It's yeasty and salty and savoury, and, umm... I'm in the "love it" camp!
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I'd say that's a pretty good description.
Wikipedia describes it about the same. Salty and Savoury would be my first attempt.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
note to self : probably best to avoid lazy scot's carrot potage.
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We are going to have to start considering a thread entitled "Memo to self" to collect all this accumulated wisdom on surviving the universe.
A little warning, I also use it in Mushroom Stroganoff (not that I've made that for ages).
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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
LS: Carrot potage? You a rabbit?  |
No. Carrot soup = cheap, tasty, nutrious meal = more money for (e)books.
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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Why am I expecting the Tasmanian Devil to come whirling by with his big soup pot?
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Have you got Marc and my good self mixed up. I don't do whirling. Or anything quickly for that matter. It takes me ages to make rissotto.
