Marmite Ripple Ice Cream

FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
I was reminded of this by an apparently serious promotion of a breakfast of baked beans on Weetabix.

So how would you pitch your novel combination? Eg 'Soft, sweet and creamy meets the ultimate salty punch! The taste sensation collision you've been waiting for!'
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  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited February 9
    (My older brother used to eat piccalilli on his weetabix, so I didn't bat an eyelid at beans on weetabix. I used to eat butter on weetabix as a child.)

    When we were dating my husband made vanilla and chilli ice cream for a dinner party (with chilli flakes I think) and it was fabulous:
    Spoon in the cold and creamy vanilla icecream, and savour the sensation as slowly the temperature rises. Reach for another spoonful of cold creaminess and tame the flames until the wave of heat hits again, and spoon in another mouthful...when you reach the bottom of the tub you'll be begging for more.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    This Yankee is quite partial to Weetabix. But drowning in heavy cream (I think you Brits call it double cream) is the only civilized way to eat them.

    One of my favorite treats: vanilla ice cream with chunky peanut butter. "Smooth meets crunchy. Bean meets nut. Blend. Enjoy."
  • Is Weetabix anything like Shredded Wheat?
  • No. Weetabix is a very densely packed cake of ground grain with husks.
  • No. Weetabix is a very densely packed cake of ground grain with husks.

    That sounds dreadful.
  • rhubarbrhubarb Shipmate
    In Australia we call it Weet-Bix
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
  • Ahh...I was thinking Shredded Wheat, too. But the Weetabix in the pic looks kind of like a rice cake (Quaker Oats), except rectangular and wheat.
  • Cold tinned peas, mixed with snips of soft goats cheese and mayonnaise. "Delicious bitty slush with Alpine tang."

    In spite of the above eccentricity, I could only possibly eat Weetabix and baked beans if someone held a gun to my head.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Shipmate
    edited February 10
    Golden Key wrote: »
    Ahh...I was thinking Shredded Wheat, too. But the Weetabix in the pic looks kind of like a rice cake (Quaker Oats), except rectangular and wheat.

    There is an oat version https://www.weetabix.co.uk/our-products/oatibix/weetabix-oatibix-classic/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgomBBhDXARIsAFNyUqOqJczpQr6duUlpNgWmsEZJe_EKbW7nl0w3Z48WWt5m0G-pJT6LrDIaAhfFEALw_wcB, the texture is very different to a rice cake. If you soak oatabix in milk they start to disintegrate and resemble porridge.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    edited February 10
    If you soak oatabix in milk they start to disintegrate and resemble porridge.

    We used to do that with shredded wheat when we were little. Heat the milk, then pour the hot milk over the shredded wheat. And shovel on lots of sugar, of course.

    I sometimes wonder how I survived to the ripe old age I've reached. Must be the healing properties of Weetabix and heavy cream.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... I used to eat butter on weetabix as a child ...
    So did I - it was a habit I picked up from my granny. I was never all that taken with Weetabix the conventional way: something to do with the sort of earthy texture.

    If their advertising had been honest, it would have been something like:

    Get set up for the day by turning something crunchy into a bowl of grey sludge!
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    Ahh...I was thinking Shredded Wheat, too. But the Weetabix in the pic looks kind of like a rice cake (Quaker Oats), except rectangular and wheat.

    It looks like something to clean soap scum off tile.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Golden Key wrote: »
    Ahh...I was thinking Shredded Wheat, too. But the Weetabix in the pic looks kind of like a rice cake (Quaker Oats), except rectangular and wheat.

    It looks like something to clean soap scum off tile.

    And that is what it tastes like. Unless you sprinkle on lots of brown sugar and then add warm milk. Just the thing for cold winter mornings - I am surprised that Canadians have never got it!
  • Mrs Claypool recently came across the astonishing combination of chocolate covered crisps (potato chips for north americans). I cannot think why anyone would want to make such an unholy marriage.
  • Mrs Claypool recently came across the astonishing combination of chocolate covered crisps (potato chips for north americans). I cannot think why anyone would want to make such an unholy marriage.

    Shudder. How could you keep it if you lived somewhere warm?
  • Well they are basically thin crunchy lightly salted chocolate, depressingly morish in my experience.
  • Leorning CnihtLeorning Cniht Shipmate
    edited February 10
    mousethief wrote: »
    No. Weetabix is a very densely packed cake of ground grain with husks.

    That sounds dreadful.

    They've been my standard breakfast for as long as I can remember. Three of the things, arranged in a triangle so they fit in the bottom of my bowl, with milk poured over. You've got to eat them fairly quickly, otherwise they turn into a sort of concretey sludge.

    Amazon is my current source, ever since Trader Joe stopped stocking them. But the price on Amazon has very strange fluctuations of a factor of 2 or so, which doesn't fill me with confidence for the long-term future.

  • Mrs Claypool recently came across the astonishing combination of chocolate covered crisps (potato chips for north americans). I cannot think why anyone would want to make such an unholy marriage.

    Chocolate + salt + carbs = a very craveworthy convo, especially for many women, especially on a monthly basis. Helpful stuff.
  • Doublethink--
    Well they are basically thin crunchy lightly salted chocolate, depressingly morish in my experience.

    Thx for the new-to-me word "morish". :) Looked it up. Food that makes you want to eat more and more of it.

  • I'm another who can't stand Weetabix with milk, so if presented with them eats them with butter and maybe marmalade. Then they become a thick, crunchy, slightly sweet wheat biscuit rather than sludge. Shredded Wheat are as bad if not worse. I think Weetabix would be a bit dry and sweet to eat with baked beans.

    @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    You can buy chocolate covered pretzels. I'm unconvinced.
  • You can buy "chocolate" covered pretzels. I've never found any coated with what I would willingly eat if it were not wrapped around a pretzel.
  • Little Miss Feet (age 4 3/4) wanted a "movie night" yesterday. It soon transpired that she was not particularly interested in watching a film but she did want me to make popcorn. Fair enough. There was a degree of consternation on my part when, as I was heating the pan, she declared that she wanted marmite on her popcorn. I shrugged and duly obliged, diluting the marmite with melted butter to get it to coat and to my surprise she devoured the whole bowl.
  • Jack Monroe has a recipe for Marmite, peanut butter and honey popcorn. Nope, I've not tried it, Marmite contains gluten, so I don't own any and I don't reckon the Vecon I use instead would work.
  • I don't think I ever had Marmite; but it's a yeast spread/paste? Is it salty? If so, you might try miso paste. I tried adding a little miso and cinnamon to ice cream. IME, it was really good. YMMV.
  • Gracious RebelGracious Rebel Shipmate
    edited February 11
    Golden Key wrote: »
    I don't think I ever had Marmite; but it's a yeast spread/paste? Is it salty? If so, you might try miso paste. I tried adding a little miso and cinnamon to ice cream. IME, it was really good. YMMV.

    Marmite is stronger tasting and saltier than miso paste. (I just taste tested miso to remind myself). Marmite is very dark brown smooth and sticky ...and delicious in my opinion. For me the jury is still out on miso paste... I have a tub in the fridge for use in vegan cooking as a substitute cheese flavouring, but I am unconvinced.
  • I wouldn't replace cheese with miso in vegan cooking, I tend to replace it with a mix of tahini, tamari and Vecon - it's not the same, but it's more pleasant than most vegan cheeses. I guess adding miso would replace the GF Worcestershire sauce I sometimes use in that mix. (It's made both vegan and GF). Tamari is GF soy sauce.
  • There are many kinds of miso. I currently have both a "light sweet yellow miso" and a "dark aged miso". In other times, I'd probably get miso in Japantown. They have an amazing selection of types, including both red and white. Due to pandemic, I got these in squeeze pouches from that place with a big river. They work well for me.
  • We have several varieties of miso in the cupboard and sometimes get fresh miso (they have light and dark varieties) from our veg delivery company. Husband cooks a lot of Japanese style dishes so we have it at least one as week, usually in soup such as ramen but sometimes as a glaze,
  • @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    I can't actually remember ever seeing a Weetabix advert, although I'm sure I must have.done at some point. I went through a phase of eating four, when I was a growing teenager, but that's both too much food now, and also hard to fit in a bowl. Two leaves me hungry.
  • @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    I can't actually remember ever seeing a Weetabix advert, although I'm sure I must have.done at some point. I went through a phase of eating four, when I was a growing teenager, but that's both too much food now, and also hard to fit in a bowl. Two leaves me hungry.

    Does the phrase "have you had your Weetabix" ring a bell?
  • Golden Key wrote: »
    There are many kinds of miso. I currently have both a "light sweet yellow miso" and a "dark aged miso". In other times, I'd probably get miso in Japantown. They have an amazing selection of types, including both red and white. Due to pandemic, I got these in squeeze pouches from that place with a big river. They work well for me.

    We use miso once a year at our annual New Year's Day shindig. We always make a pot of blackeye peas, due to the mysterious properties thereof effecting good luck throughout the year if consumed on the first day thereof. But the classic blackeye peas recipe with hambone is of course not acceptable to present to our vegan/vegetarian friends, so we make a small pot using miso as the umami flavor instead of ham. It works admirably well.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    I can't actually remember ever seeing a Weetabix advert, although I'm sure I must have.done at some point. I went through a phase of eating four, when I was a growing teenager, but that's both too much food now, and also hard to fit in a bowl. Two leaves me hungry.

    Dlet would eat 3 Weet Bix (our equivalent) without blinking an eye. Buying the boxes he'd get through in a week kept me working at least 5 years longer than I'd intended.
  • Gee D wrote: »
    @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    I can't actually remember ever seeing a Weetabix advert, although I'm sure I must have.done at some point. I went through a phase of eating four, when I was a growing teenager, but that's both too much food now, and also hard to fit in a bowl. Two leaves me hungry.

    Dlet would eat 3 Weet Bix (our equivalent) without blinking an eye. Buying the boxes he'd get through in a week kept me working at least 5 years longer than I'd intended.

    Ha! This resonates, @Gee D Just last night I told my 19 year old son, known on these boards as The Giraffe, that I could not afford for him to maintain his no-to-low carb craze for more than two or three days a week. The amount of meat he seems to need, because he easts almost non-stop and is on the skinny side of slim, is astronomical (and can't be good for him or the planet, never mind my purse). I told him he was welcome to go shopping himself....
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    It's good when they set up on their own and then find out how high the cost of living is.
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    Many years ago, I went to the doctor because I'd been having pains in my hip. She sent me for an X Ray. When the results came back, she waved the picture at me and said, tactfully,
    "I can't see anything wrong with your hip, but it might be happier if it didn't have to carry around quite so much of you".
    She then handed me a leaflet headed 'The Weetabix Diet'. See if you can guess what the main component was in it.

    It did work for a time, but it was hard work.

  • Gee D wrote: »
    It's good when they set up on their own and then find out how high the cost of living is.

    Quite. He was just starting to do that last term, but of course this term the university, in line with the Scottish Government's rules, has put all learning online and told them not to come back except in certain specific circumstances. I don't think he was away long enough, and even when he was he often phoned me to ask what he should eat that evening - having run out of ideas.
  • Cathscats wrote: »
    even when he was he often phoned me to ask what he should eat that evening - having run out of ideas.

    "Same think we eat every night, Pinky".

    If you know how to make three things, you rotate through three things...
  • NenyaNenya Shipmate
    Weetabix are not too bad; Oatibix have the flavour and consistency of sawdust.
  • Cathscats wrote: »
    Gee D wrote: »
    @Leorning Cniht three Weetabix? Did you take the advertisements seriously? (I can find the Shredded Wheat versions and references to Weetabix adverts that suggested it was impossible to eat three.)

    I can't actually remember ever seeing a Weetabix advert, although I'm sure I must have.done at some point. I went through a phase of eating four, when I was a growing teenager, but that's both too much food now, and also hard to fit in a bowl. Two leaves me hungry.

    Dlet would eat 3 Weet Bix (our equivalent) without blinking an eye. Buying the boxes he'd get through in a week kept me working at least 5 years longer than I'd intended.

    Ha! This resonates, @Gee D Just last night I told my 19 year old son, known on these boards as The Giraffe, that I could not afford for him to maintain his no-to-low carb craze for more than two or three days a week. The amount of meat he seems to need, because he easts almost non-stop and is on the skinny side of slim, is astronomical (and can't be good for him or the planet, never mind my purse). I told him he was welcome to go shopping himself....

    Broccoli. Filling, cheap, convenient (if bought frozen).
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    I don't think he'd have taken to having broccoli for breakfast and we're all pretty sick and tired of having it. 40 years ago, it was to us a new vegetable. Now it's overdone and dominates the vegetable plate whenever you go out for dinner.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    Gee D wrote: »
    I don't think he'd have taken to having broccoli for breakfast

    What? He's never had a broccoli and Swiss omelet? Oh, the horror!
  • There's info online about cooking and housekeeping that's designed for college students, people in their first apartment, etc. And there are books available, too.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Gee D wrote: »
    I don't think he'd have taken to having broccoli for breakfast

    What? He's never had a broccoli and Swiss omelet? Oh, the horror!

    At least until he left home, he was not subjected to a breakfast like that.

    We have broccoli from time to time, but brussel sprouts are on the banned list.
  • PSA: tried the marmite popcorn yesterday: not bad but I prefer the nutella.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Hostly Oink

    This thread seems to have evolved into more of a "weird food combo" discussion, so it's better suited to Heaven.

    Haloes on, and off we go!

    Thank you.

    Piglet, Circus host
  • jay_emmjay_emm Shipmate
    We had it (weetabix) on occaision toasted and buttered, possibly even with marmite.

    My normal eating 2 weetabix in parallel, 3rd weetabix crushed in the gaps to form a porridge when milk is added (or coco-pops).
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    Weetabix is just wheat. Oatibix has other stuff in it - can't remember what, but I only tried it once.
  • Amanda B ReckondwythAmanda B Reckondwyth Mystery Worship Editor
    jay_emm wrote: »
    We had it (weetabix) on occaision toasted and buttered, possibly even with marmite.

    I will have to try it that way, Weetabix fan that I am. Although I think marmite would desecrate it.
  • Ethne AlbaEthne Alba Shipmate
    edited February 13
    Ice cream n crunchy peanut butter is sounding interesting...

    Weetabix with butter and marmalade / jam was last tried in the 197somethings at a Christian Easter camp. It wouldn't go down then and I won’t be repeating the experience.
    But with double cream? Now There is a thought

    Uses for Oatibix @Nenya ?
    Find a weetabix cake recipe and substitute?

    And I am most certainly about to try the marmite popcorn tonight! Thank you!

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