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Originally Posted by LazyScot
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). |
how on EARTH did i not know about this hilarious celebration ?? thanks for the cultchah.
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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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yep, it does look sort of like a marmite. if marmites were made out of glass.
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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.
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that would be bookmark number one. just think, all that wisdom collected in one place ! then again, it might be dangerous. what if it fell into the wrong hands ?
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A little warning, I also use it in Mushroom Stroganoff (not that I've made that for ages).
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note to self... well, you heard him.
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No. Carrot soup = cheap, tasty, nutrious meal = more money for (e)books.
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yep. soup=good. i love soup.
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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. 
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oh my, i remember your risotto. is it warm in here, or is it just me ??
(fanning self with hand)