Posted by Peter Ceresole on March 27, 2005 at 10:32:10 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Peanut Butter loosing the plot? posted by Ed Kiser on March 26, 2005 at 20:32:45:
Perhaps then, it would be safe for me to say, without re-doing the scan that there is still no reference to this material.
In the AR children's books? There certainly isn't (unless it's in 'Coots in the North' which I haven't read).
As for the strangeness of somebody discovering it, it seems to have been a matter of scientific discovery of the nature of yeast and its nutritive properties, and Liebig turning that to commercial advantage in the 19th century. The remarkable thing is less how somebody came to discover it, but rather how many similar products have sprung from it- Liebig, Marmite, Cenovis, Vegemite...
There's a short historical summary under 'about us' on the Marmite web site.