Posts Tagged ‘Toast’
Thanks Tesco
It would appear that a high ranking executive at the Tesco chain of supermarkets is an avid reader of this very web-site! I’m certain of it, why else would the supermarket giant suddenly start selling the legendary Marmite Cereal Bars?
Look, here’s the proof:
You have no idea how difficult it is to take a photo in a supermarket without looking as if you are up to no good
A few aisles over from where the above photograph was taken, I stumbled upon these jars of wonderment:
In my basket are two jars of a new undiscovered flavour of Marmite – Marmite XO; a Marmite made from a much stronger recipe. Wow! It’s a yeast-overload! Vegemite, Marmite Cereal Bars and Marmite XO all sold in the same store!
I can report that Marmite XO is very nice! It isn’t amazingly super-strong when compared to the standard recipe but it does have a certain zing to it. At £3.99 per jar I’m not exactly consuming it like a yeast-obsessed loony, but it is making my breakfast-time toast a pleasant wake-up call.
Note to ASDA – if I do not see any new Marmite products on your shelves by the end of the week, I may have to go elsewhere for my weekly shop!
The toaster that took over the world
A Tefal Avanti Toaster
It was the week before Christmas when my toaster passed away.
Nursing a rather extreme hangover, I had located the kitchen and instinctively placed two slices of bread into the toaster in readiness for a breakfast of champions. As I blundered from the kitchen trying to locate first the bathroom, then my shoes, the sudden protest launched by the smoke alarm in the hallway indicated the toaster’s sudden demise.
My toaster, my provider of bread-based succour was now heating at a temperature normally associated with the surface of the sun. How was I supposed to spread the margarine when there was a huge hole burnt through the centre of the bread?