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Marmite Cream Cheese and Marmite Butter actually exist – and they’re both on sale right now

Two new varieties of Marmite have appeared on shelves at M&S that are sure to further emphasise the brand's bizarre reputation.

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Marmite’s age-old, ingenious marketing campaign – ‘you either love it or hate it’ – has put the brand name into day-to-day language.

Whenever there’s something – or someone – that attracts polar opposite opinions, it’s referred to as ‘Marmite’.

For over a century, this food spread has been divisive enough in its classic format.

But now, two new varieties have appeared on shelves at M&S – adding to Marmite’s already-bizarre reputation.

Yep, the toast topper is available in a fresh flavour… and also a different design.

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M&S has started selling a Cream Cheese version of Marmite – currently discounted to £2.10 a jar according to the word on social media.

This could be a baffling or beautiful blend depending on your attitude; and according to M&S, it’s best enjoyed over a bagel, mixed in with pasta or dumped in a bowl of tomato soup.

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Ok, then.

Then, there’s Marmite Creamy Butter available for three quid – which can be smeared on a jacket potato or piled on top of bread or toast.

If you’re a Marmite fan, head down to your local M&S and keep your eyes peeled for these products.

They’re both available right now.

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What is the UK’s national dish? New survey reveals Brits’ pick in landslide victory

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If you’ve ever thought to Google the question ‘what is Britain’s national dish?’, then you probably came away thinking it’s chicken tikka masala.

But is that actually the truth? A new survey has disproved the claim, massively.

There’s no denying that chicken tikka masala – an Indian curry that’s actually widely thought to have been created in Britain – is a popular dish that’s loved by many, but despite what many headlines have claimed over the years, a new YouGov survey has revealed it’s not what Brits consider to be the country’s ‘national dish’.

YouGov conducted two online surveys earlier this month, made up of 2,079 and 2,104 adults aged 18+ living in Great Britain.

And, in their own words, Brits chose fish and chips as the country’s national dish, making it the ‘resounding’ winner with 49% of the vote.

Chips @ No 8 in Prestwich
What is the UK’s national dish? A new survey has revealed Brits’ pick in a landslide victory / Credit: The Manc Group

With nearly half of the overall vote, this puts fish and chips far ahead of the roast dinner in second place, which only 24% of people picked – including the 6% who made sure to specify a beef roast.

In fact, only 3% of Brits actually name chicken tikka masala as the UK’s national dish, although 52% in the survey did confess that they eat some form of curry at least once a month, so it is still a popular pick regardless.

Fish and chips is by far the most common answer across all generations too, according to the survey (45-50%), with the biggest difference between age groups being that 18-24 year olds are less likely to have nominated roast dinner and more likely to have chosen chicken tikka masala instead.

What do Brits say is the UK’s national dish?

  1. Fish and chips – 49%
  2. Roast dinner – 24%
  3. Chicken tikka masala – 3%
  4. Curry (non-specific) – 2%
  5. Full English breakfast – 2%
  6. Bangers and mash – 1%
  7. Cottage or shepherd’s pie – 1%
  8. Other – 3%
  9. Don’t know – 15%

The survey also showed that, of the three top contenders for the UK’s national dish, roast dinners are the most frequently eaten, as 52% of people said they eat them on a monthly basis – including 16% who do so every week.

Aside from the frequently mentioned dishes, some survey respondents also gave shoutouts to the full English breakfast (2%), bangers and mash (1%), and cottage or shepherd’s pie (1%).

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What do you think then? Do you agree with the survey’s findings? Or would you have picked something else instead?

Featured Image – Raman SQC (via Unsplash)

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James Acaster reveals eerie song all Traitors contestants are forced to listen to before every roundtable

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James Acaster has revealed the eerie (and pretty surprising) song that all Traitors contestants are forced to listen to before every roundtable.

In case you’ve been living comfortably under a rock, you’ll probably be aware that comedian James Acaster is currently a contestant on this current season of BBC‘s smash-hit reality TV competition show, The Celebrity Traitors – a show that viewers in their millions are tuning into each week, with some big names on the cast.

Acaster is currently (spoiler alert… but it shouldn’t be at this point, we are several weeks in after all) one of three Traitors competing on the show, and he’s doing a pretty good job at it.

But we wonder how much of his success can be put down to the producers’ love of a certain song they like to play before every roundtable? Probably next to none, but it’s surprising to find out how much of an integral role the tune plays though.

The song we’re referring to here, it has been revealed, is ‘The Hanging Tree’ – a folk ballad made popular by The Hunger Games.

‘The Hanging Tree’, composed by James Newton Howard and Suzanne Collins, was famously sung by Jennifer Lawrence’s character Katniss Everdeen in the third instalment of the film franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

The lyrics are as follows:

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say who murdered three?
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree

So, as you can see, the song does make reference to ‘murder’, which is a key part of The Traitors game (not real murder, of course), but even with that context, we’re still not sure why the producers are keen to play it out before every roundtable.

During a viral TikTok clip from an on-stage Q&A this week, Acaster revealed the song’s usage to the audience: “You all walk in silence down the corridor, and you all sit down, and they don’t announce it’s gonna happen.

“The first time this will completely blindside you, but they do it every single roundtable. They play that song from The Hunger Games, that ‘coming to the tree’ song. Like acapella, Jennifer Lawrence.”

He continued: “It was every f***ing time, it was the only song we heard the whole time we were in there, and all day I would have it in my head constantly, everyone would, I’d go ‘have you got coming to the tree in your head?’ and they’d go ‘yes, it’s in my head, again’.”

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Viewers who watch the show may have spotted the song being played in the background or transition between certain scenes, but now it’s been revealed that the contestants hear it too.

Who would’ve thought?

Featured Image – Euan Cherry / BBC / Studio Lambert

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