Be bowled over by Marmite’s latest limited edition
Monday, June 1, 2009 at 10:39am
Cricket and beer are as synonymous with Englishness as a slice of toast with butter and Marmite. That’s why in 2009, as the Aussies come to Blighty to contest the Ashes on home turf, the makers of Marmite have teamed up with Marston’s Pedigree, the official beer of England cricket, to create the cricket season’s limited edition - a cricket ball jar made with the addition of Marston’s Pedigree yeast – a new blend sure to bowl fans over.
The new limited edition of only 500,000 jars will be a Marmite made with yeast with the unique brewing process used to create Marston’s Pedigree in Burton-upon-Trent. Providing a special twist to that most hated and loved of flavours, the unique recipe is sure to spur on the lads this summer and leave the Vegemite-munching Aussies out for a duck!
Watching the match with the lads wouldn’t be complete without the traditionally British tea-break of sandwiches and lashings of Marmite with a pint of Marston’s Pedigree. So pick up a limited edition ‘cricket’ jar and gear up for a summer spurring on Straussy, ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, KP and the rest of the boys to strike for success this summer.
Marston’s Pedigree Marmite costs £3.49 (RRP), is alcohol free and will be available from w/c 8 June at most stores nationwide including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose & Morrison’s just in time for the cricket madness. So, go and pledge your support to an England victory in the npower Ashes Series!
I think we had something on Marmite here before, spearheaded by its biggest fan, Richard Pinnell. I think I still have a jar of the stuff that he brought for Jon; wonder how it ages? It's not bad, actually. The trick is to spread it very thinly on a cracker or something; it's more potent than it looks.
Show the England cricket lads your support this year and keep up to date with all the latest Cricket news and gossip at Marmite’s dedicated Twitter page. Plus watch out for tweets from a number of special guests!
As cricket fever sweeps the nation, Marmite and ex-England cricketer Phil 'Tuffers' Tufnell have teamed up to release ‘The Ashes Song’ by Tuffers and the Wooden Urns’ to sledge the Vegemite-munching Aussies and cheer the England lads on to victory this summer!
Available to download from iTunes.com from Tuesday 16th June 2009, all profits will be donated to Cricket for Change, a cricket community charity which uses the game to change young lives. Click here to download the single and show the England lads your support this Summer! http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...m?id=318315773
Marmite? You Philistine....it is merely an inferior Vegemite with a pommy accent! (Damn you - you will be talking up Bovril next and then where will we be?)
Marmite? You Philistine....it is merely an inferior Vegemite with a pommy accent! (Damn you - you will be talking up Bovril next and then where will we be?)
I have never gotten as far as tasting Marmite, [or Vegimite] having been less than enchanted by the smell of the stuff.
Explain it's irresistable appeal, please.
Does it taste better than it smells, Henry??
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As the npower Ashes Test Match gets underway at Lord’s, we beamed a ‘cheeky’ taunt onto the hotel where the Aussie team are staying in London. Spoofing the infamous, naked Gail Porter projection that was beamed onto the Houses of Parliament exactly ten years ago, this 15m high image sees a naked Tuffers with just a sign to cover his modesty. Sledging the Vegemite-munching Aussies, the sign showcases the Marston’s Pedigree Marmite jar with the words, ‘Too Tasty for the Aussies’.
Phil Tufnell said: “Aussies are always up for a spot of light-hearted banter and having been sledged many, many times myself I am delighted that Marmite has enabled me to get my revenge! I’m certain that England can go all the way, c’mon boys!”
Pick up your limited edition cricket ball jar of Marston’s Pedigree Marmite now at most stores nationwide including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose & Morrison’s (£3.49 RRP).
Bovril is a meat extract, and is most commonly diluted with hot water to make a drink. Marmite is black nectar, sent from the Gods on high to reward those with good taste of just how fantastic life can be.
What, no discussion of the horrors that befell Dear Old Blighty at Headingley? Rollie, you disappoint me. This is where it gets good. The scenario is so simple. England require victory at The Oval and the Ashes are theirs. Hmm. Ashes. Must be nearly as tasty as Marmite.
I myself dispelled Headingley's gloom by purchasing a 99 cent cricket app for my new iPhone!
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