{"id":9658,"date":"2011-06-05T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:45:32","slug":"the-marmite-affair-hits-port-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/the-marmite-affair-hits-port-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marmite affair hits Port Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the bureaucratic reach of Danish food nannies now extends as far as Port Hope, Ontario. I dropped in to the British Pantry to stock up on my usual assortment of pickled onions, crisps, toffees, and floral gums, to discover that not only did they not have any Marmite, they <em>couldn&#8217;t get any more<\/em>. This is serious . . . food <strong>DefCon Three<\/strong> level serious.<\/p>\n<p>A quick interrogation of the sales person revealed that this is due to some strong disinformation activity on the part of the anti-Marmite faction: &#8220;Oh, we can&#8217;t bring that in anymore because it&#8217;s got beef extract in it. We&#8217;re not allowed to import that without a beef importing permit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My (sadly) empty jar of Marmite proclaims on the front that it&#8217;s 100% Vegetarian:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110605-105004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110605-105004.jpg\" alt=\"20110605-105004.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>100% Vegetarian<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110605-105347.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110605-105347.jpg\" alt=\"20110605-105347.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Ingredients: Yeast Extract<br \/>Salt<br \/>Vegetable Extract<br \/>Niacin<br \/>Thiamin<br \/>Spice Extracts (contains Celery)<br \/>Riboflavin<br \/>Folic Acid<br \/>Vitamin B12<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the bureaucratic reach of Danish food nannies now extends as far as Port Hope, Ontario. I dropped in to the British Pantry to stock up on my usual assortment of pickled onions, crisps, toffees, and floral gums, to discover that not only did they not have any Marmite, they couldn&#8217;t get any more. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,6,74,66],"tags":[1428,661],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-cancon","category-food","category-health-science","tag-marmite","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2vM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67097,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/67097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}