but she's a girl

On Friday night, Lyanne and I went to see the musical, Wicked. Loved the show, and it was great to finally get a chance to hang out with Lyanne. We've been penpals ever since I met her when she was in one of our children's concert audiences; she was only twelve years old at the time. Now she's working on a Master's degree!



Above photo: a chocolatey gift from Lyanne. It's, er, mostly gone now.

*polite burp*



I recently discovered a new culinary delight ... marmite and crunchy peanut butter on nutty bread! The combo may sound strange, but I find that the peanut butter helps cut the bitterness of the marmite, and the resulting taste sensation is quite addictive. To me, anyway. Jeff is massively revolted by the idea.

I found out about this from BSAG. I thanked her as well as asking if she had a name for this particular taste sensation. Her reply was as follows:

"Yay! A convert! Actually, it's quite an achievement acquiring a taste for Marmite if you haven't grown up with it. I usually think that you need to be imprinted on it from a tender age (like ducklings on the mother duck) or it just seems revolting. I don't remember why I tried it the first time. I think I felt that peanut butter on its own is a little bit sweet, and I wanted some savoury, umami taste to tone the sweetness down. For the same reason, I've never understood why peanut butter and jelly (or jam, if you speak English English) is so popular, because they are two very sweet things. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of it, indeed, a quick google found a posting on the official Marmite forum about the combination. I also don't have a name for it, and just prosaically call it 'peanut butter and Marmite'. I'd call it 'black and tan' if that wasn't already a name for a mixture of stout and porter, and a rather nasty British paramilitary unit that did some pretty horrible things in Ireland in the 1920s."

But She's A Girl is one of my favorite blogs these days. I love the author's writing style, she writes about interesting things, and I was especially intrigued by her About page; we seem to be quite similar in some ways. I found out about this blog from Jeff, who is also a fan of BSAG.

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