I am off to Italy next week, and starting to pack.
Does anyone know if Marmite can be carried in hand luggage, or would that count as a liquid and have to be checked in? I don’t want it confiscated by some eager security herbert.
Many thanks.
Marmite – solid or liquid?
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Why don’t you check it in anyway. Loads of bubble wrap should do the trick.
The Englishman who takes Marmite on his Italian holiday – nicely played, sir!
They have fantastic food in general, no question. Perhaps the best in the world. However, for some reason they can’t do breakfast.
I believe that these days it is possible to procure this vile matter in a more travel-friendly plastic jar. I buy Colmans English Mustard in such a container when I visit the UK.
I doubt it matters’ It’ll probably be confiscated as being a dangerous substance. Put it in your cabin baggage, which will avoid the need to evacuate the aircraft while they isolate and quarantine your suitcase. Did I mention I don’t like Marmite?
It’s waste product of the brewing industry.
Need I say more?
So is beer.
Beer’s not entirely a “waste” product of brewing though, is it?
(Smily face)
The majority that gets sold is a waste of hops.
The restrictions apply to liquid or semi-liquid foods e.g. Jam, honey, syrups. My guess is that Marmite probably falls into that category. Here’s a link:
https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/overview
Thanks, that looks pretty conclusive. I will check it in.
I don’t have any bubble wrap, but it is such a solid jar that the risk of it breaking must be minimal.
Why don’t you wrap safely and put in checked luggage if you are checking luggage in. You surely aren’t going to be dipping in on the fight ?
Much as I love Marmite I found that it just doesn’t mix well with Italian bread. Though if you do run out and find yourself in Naples, go to Codringtons (they sell it along with Liptons tea). It’s the kind of shop where they still think the English wear bowler hats.
My advice – smear liberally over body and face and pass yourself off as a Black & White Minstrel. When safely in your hotel room, hire a local girl to lick it off and spit it into your mouth.
Oh how very nuanced.
One tries.
Have you been spying on me using my webcam?
(And why isn’t your name on the “@” list? Clique!!!)
MC is there – @mc-escher
He wasn’t replying to MC, he was replying to Saucecraft.
Why don’t you take the new travel size one?
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/24/marmite-launch-travel-size-jars
I already have a jar that will last for some considerable time.
Oh, spring for the extra pound why don’t you?
Why not insert the jar into the tried and tested hiding place used by drug smugglers? If it were to break by any chance, then the seepage could be easily explained away.
If it is a jar, you are probably fine. It is if it is the “squeezy” abomination, where they dilute it with tarmacadam, then you will be thrown to the mob.
Forget it. The only way of getting half-liquids past the barrier in hand baggage is hoping they won’t pick it up. So no Marmite, English mustard, marmalade, hummus. Checked luggage is obviously different.
The Marmite obsessive in my office informs me that the makers have already anticipated this dilemma, and produced a travel size jar:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/11698545/Marmite-launches-travel-size-jars.html
She also has a jar on her desk which has been there since 2011. I can report that after 4 years, it very much falls into the category of solid.
A mere four years and it’s gone solid?
You need to turn your heating down.
My ex-pat brother included Marmite in his essential supplies (which was tea bags, mainly) last time he went back to Basel. Marmite got confiscated at the first opportunity.
Hold luggage is your friend. My daughter – then 17 and on an “educational” school exchange to Bergerac to learn about the chemistry of wine-making (I’m not making this up) was housed by a family living in St Emilion (I haven’t made that up either) – and brought back a bottle of 2008 vintage, comfortingly wrapped in an entire packet of sanitary towels done up with gaffer tape (we’ve taught her well). Precious bottle lived to greet the following Christmas lunch. So there’s an idea for you, Jed . . .
I’m not sure whether I love this thread or hate it.