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[Poll #1075496]

I thought a marmeluke was some sort of giant sea creature, but it seems I'm wrong.

EDIT: What is it with marmalade, you freaks? Simon brought some home from the farmers market at the weekend, and proudly proclaimed that it was good for Bridgets to eat - he'd checked the ingredients. Yes, but it contains marmalade. Jam is nice (pauses to crave gooseberry jam). Pickle is fine. Marmalade is just Wrong.

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I know people who LIKE marmalade, so it wouldn't go to waste.

By some straaaange coincidence, Simon likes marmalade. Otherwise I could get a Paddington Bear and hide the jar under its hat. Or open the jar, smear some marmalade around Paddington's mouth, and leave him outside the local hospital Accident & Emergency dept with a sign saying "I has a stumock ache"

It's marmalade with cider, so I'm sure it's very nice (if you like that sort of thing).

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marmot, marmot, MARMOT

I thought of you when I made this poll. But I did it anyway :-)

(Wot no icon?)

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(mushroom! mushroom!)

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Narwhal!

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and the narwhal
is the primary source
of vitamin C
on the frozen sea

[damn. I don't have a hattifattener icon]

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Ah lurve's marmelade!

Too orangey for Bugs :-(

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Does

major_clanger have a monkey?

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Well you can't have butter and, "Many people nowadays like marmalade instead."

I loved that poem when I was ~~six~~ young :-) I like a cow with a sense of humour.

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it was good for Bridgets to eat - he'd checked the ingredients. Yes, but it contains marmalade

*falls over laughing*

I have to agree. But

swisstones wouldn't :)

Luckily he has his own LJ account and can choose to tick different boxes :-)

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Thick wholemeal toast. Lashings of lovely marmalade. Nyom Nyom Nyom.

*scrape scrape scrape rinse*

nom nom nom

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Disappears to scoff bread and jam. Lingonberry. I hope we have some bread.

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Marmalade's fine, but Marmite is Just Plain Wrong.

pjc50 loves it though.

I don't think marmosets would be tasty even if they were spreadable...

Love your icon :-)

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Pete loves it so much I'm making him a Dune version with a sandworm right now, when I should be working. Is that terribly sad? ;)

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> sad?

You are talking to someone who is on CNPS 355. I am a connoisseur of sadness :-)

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I can't believe it's not marmoset

The new spreadable New World Monkey flavoured spread, yum!

Oh, and according to wikipedia ...
"Their mating systems are highly variable and can include monogamy, polygyny and occasionally polyandry. ... Like other callitrichines, marmosets are characterized by a high degree of cooperative care of the young and some food sharing and tolerated theft."

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The only marmalade I like is Marmalade Boy.

But what would I do with a marmoset? And I've no idea what a marmeluke is. And isn't marmite bad for Bridget?

I don't know, but Bridget is bad for marmite.

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marmaluke is a kind of sword grip apparently
http://www.fr.cinoa.org/index.pl?id=19809;isa=Metadot::SystemApp::AntiqueSearch;op=detail

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I suspect this is a variant/misspelling coupled with a transfer: mamelukes were Egyptian slave-soldiers, and might easily have used a variety of sword-grip that would get itself credited to them...

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Marmaluke sword's likely to be a typo for "Mameluke sword" - 49 vs 704 hits on Google.

Or that type of English accent where the letter 'a' gets lengthened and an 'r' dropped in (khaarki for khaki, etc)....

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Lime marmalade is yummy, as is the Mandarin with Gin I found at a market last year. Or the really thick cut kind that's like treacle with chewy lumps.

Especially with roast duck or baked ham ...

I thought a marmeluke was some sort of giant sea creature, but it seems I'm wrong.

My suspicion is that your marmeluke is just a variant/misspelling of mameluke/Mamluk, who were a kind of Egyptian janissary (if we accept the notion that janissaries were a kind of Turkish mameluke). Or am I wrong?

You are right - but not writing ;-)

I was sure when I was a kid I read Uncle Lubin, and there was a huge sea monster called a marmeluke or mameluke or something similar.

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Or a Jarnissary - being a Janissary whose family originally hailed from the Home Counties?

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...or a jamissary, being the (acceptable-to-

bugshaws) Turkish equivalent of the Egyptian marmalade?

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:-)

As long as it's not Turkish Delight. That stuff's like eating rose-flavoured Pritt Stick. But that is a poll for another day...

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Um. Have you had the good stuff, the real thing? I hated all English iterations, but the true Turkish confection I adore. I am, however, trying to adjust myself to the notion that there can be two legitimate points of view, my own and other people's (as, for example, in the matter of marmalade, which again I used to hate but now adore; and yet am not even arguing the point with you, let alone just telling you how wrong you are. Which is wonderfully forbearing of me, in light of my normal behaviours).

Oh, and I am too writing. Just flicking to LJ between paragraphs, because I have a wonderfully unfocused process. If I had two sets of typing hands, I could truly multitask...

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I thought a Janissary was a breeding centre for janises.

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Onion marmalade. You know it makes sense...

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Both marmite and marmalade are good. In fact, both marmite and marmalade are good with a nice sharp cheddar.

There are marmalades other than orange, such as onion. Also yummy, especially with cold meat.

grapefruit marmalade is great. And there's a Thai thing I buy which is essentially Thai spices and lemongrass marmalade which is *amazing* as a marinade.

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Roses' Lime Marmalade and Lemon & Lime Marmalade are edible.

All other sorts of marmalade, especially anything including oranges, is an abomination and should be hidden away in a dark cellar many miles from me.

Obviously I meant "any other sort of marmalade". My excuse is I don't have my glasses on.

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Hmmm. I would try lime marmalade.

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I recommend it. Speaking as someone who abhors orange marmalade.

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Ahem. Frank Coopers.

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Marmalade = concentrated sugary EEEVIL. Oranges of DOOM! DOOOOOM, I tell you!

Heh heh oops! Not really your thing at all, is it?

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Actually I was never really that fond of marmalade anyway. I felt like it once in a while but not exactly regularly.

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