"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[screened porch]

Mad Meako 2: The Road Warrior

But seriously, stay safe!

Happy New Year everyone!!

Good kluck to all the people in Australia. Hoping the fires will soon be burned out.

meako , I was worried until I realized that's photo wizardry instead of an outfit you really have.
@Humppa, good to see you.

 

[Just Tom.]

Carbon steel. Bail. Fob. Marmite. Go ahead, say something. I dare you.

Did I mention I have a beard?

 

[meako]

Ohhhh a beard....right...I always knew marmite was multifunctional...organic beard balm is simply another feather in its sticky,smelly brown cap.

 

[paulhilborn]

Carbon steel. Bail. Fob. Marmite. Go ahead, say something. I dare you.

Did I mention I have a beard?

Lol Tom, nice knife now in all fairness Duncan sent Nanc and I some Marmite, I (not Nanc) did give it a try (just once mind you) needless to say, it reached it's expiration date and Nanc gratefully threw it out

 

[Just Tom.]

Lol Tom, nice knife now in all fairness Duncan sent Nanc and I some Marmite, I (not Nanc) did give it a try (just once mind you) needless to say, it reached it's expiration date and Nanc gratefully threw it out

Hmm. With the amount of salt in it, it never occurred to me that it could expire. I thought it lasted forever, like Twinkies. I always thought that if we wished to preserve the world’s learning for future civilizations to discover, we should find some way to encrypt it on Twinkies...

 

[paulhilborn]

Hmm. With the amount of salt in it, it never occurred to me that it could expire. I thought it lasted forever, like Twinkies. I always thought that if we wished to preserve the world’s learning for future civilizations to discover, we should find some way to encrypt it on Twinkies...

I TOTALLY agree Tom, or possibly there was no expiration date and Nanc simply wanted it out of her cupboard

 

[waynorth]

When put in a sandwich of nice coarse bread, with good layers each of butter and crunchy Peanut Butter, Marmite is good, IMO!!

 

[paulhilborn]

When put in a sandwich of nice coarse bread, with good layers each of butter and crunchy Peanut Butter, Marmite is good, IMO!!

Charlie, I actually found it good, albeit different as I didn't acquire a taste for it in my youth due to not having it. That said, I believe the way you described eating it was instructed by Duncan and if memory serves that's how I ate it

 

[JB in SC]

The local Publix carries Marmite...yikes.

 

[Will Power]

Carbon steel. Bail. Fob. Marmite. Go ahead, say something. I dare you.

Did I mention I have a beard?

You won't get much patina on that blade, if used for Marmite it'll get eaten away with rust before it can start That fob looks like a hangman's noose

The British have a concept that something is Marmite, meaning it's a love it or loathe it situation Marmite is great stuff on toast, or with strong cheese on your favourite bread, can be used in gravies to good effect too. Trouble is it's hard to find here and importing it after Brexit might be tricky

Beards may have a function as some manner of food strainer rather in the way a whale's maw works

 

[Jack Black]

Lol Tom, nice knife now in all fairness Duncan sent Nanc and I some Marmite, I (not Nanc) did give it a try (just once mind you) needless to say, it reached it's expiration date and Nanc gratefully threw it out

It has an expiration date?!

 

[paulhilborn]

It has an expiration date?!

Jack, Nanc is in all seriousness a germafob, so expiration dates and things like that wear on the poor girl, now on a less serious note, she looked at, smelled Marmite and had an instant disdain for it, but Marmite is not alone in that category, so is Spam

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, Nanc is in all seriousness a germafob, so expiration dates and things like that wear on the poor girl, now on a less serious note, she looked at, smelled Marmite and had an instant disdain for it, but Marmite is not alone in that category, so is Spam

When I was 18 I worked in a brewery for six months, and played a small part in the production of Marmite. Down in the bowels of the brewery was the 'Balm Alley'. It contained three ancient rusty iron presses, of a type which probably hasn't existed for many years. Inside a rectangular frame, sat about a dozen square iron 'plates', which could be moved from one end of the press to the other. The plates were cut away in the middle, so they were essentially just frames. We worked in pairs, draping an ancient tarpaulin sheet over each of the plates, and then stacking them together at one end of the press. The last couple of barrels from a brew were then passed through the press at pressure, passing into a separate tank, which would eventually go back into the main brew. The yeast in the beer collected on the sheets as it passed through the press. A couple of hours later, we'd come back and start separating the plates, as we moved one away from the stack, we'd scrape off the mud-like substance with a wooden implement, and deposit it in an old rusty oil-drum. Having worked our way through all the plates, and removed the sheets, which went to be washed, we'd wheel the open drums round the corner to a loading bay, where they sat, uncovered, for up to a week. Once a week, the Marmite man came to pick up the drums, so the old yeast could be turned into Marmite

Don't tell Nanc Paul!

 

[Will Power]

Get's devoured well before any expiration date I thought expire/expiration was an archaic word for death

Yeast is healthy, full of vitamins and trace elements

Here's a hysterical study, they think Marmite and Vegemite are the SAME ask a Briton or an Australian

https://www.inverse.com/article/30040-marmite-vegemite-yeast-extract-gaba-b12-brain-function

But here's another much more reassuring because it comes from some place called Yorkshire

http://www.spooffle.com/link-found-between-marmite-and-life-expectancy/

 

[Ramrodmb]

Wonder what it does to someone with the MTHFR gene mutation... and who would want to live to be 112? No thank you.

 

[Prester John]

Wonder what it does to someone with the MTHFR gene mutation... and who would want to live to be 112? No thank you.

I want to live to be 120, like Moses:
"And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."
But then again, at half that age, my eye is dim and my natural force somewhat abated.
Maybe fourscore years.

 

[screened porch]

I want to live to be 120, like Moses:
"And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."
But then again, at half that age, my eye is dim and my natural force somewhat abated.
Maybe fourscore years.

Or eat your marmite?

 

[afishhunter]

(Quote) "The knife is man's oldest tool …" (end quote)

Thinking about it, I don't believe this is true.

The knife may well be one of man's oldest tools.
Perhaps mankind's second or third tool. (the spear may be his second.)

However, I believe man's first tool was either a tree or an stick, to scratch his (itchy) back where he (or she) could not reach,
when there was no one around to scratch it for him (or her).

What say you?

 

[Prester John]

(Quote) "The knife is man's oldest tool …" (end quote)

Thinking about it, I don't believe this is true.

The knife may well be one of man's oldest tools.
Perhaps mankind's second or third tool. (the spear may be his second.)

However, I believe man's first tool was either a tree or an stick, to scratch his (itchy) back where he (or she) could not reach,
when there was no one around to scratch it for him (or her).

What say you?

I'm going with knife.

 

[Just Tom.]

The British have a concept that something is Marmite, meaning it's a love it or loathe it situation

...which was my point of course. I was poking some gentle fun at a few of the things we have been dividing ourselves into opposing camps over recently. And don’t cross that line I have painted down the middle of the porch!

I do genuinely like Marmite though (and those other things).