S8 Ep806: 14. The American Purchase of Marmite and UAE's Exit from OPEC Guest: Simon Constable Summary: American company McCormick's acquisition of Marmite highlights corporate expansion. Simultaneously, the UAE's exit from OPEC disrupts the traditional oil cartel,
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchew with Simon Constable. He is in the south of France, |
| 0:20.0 | and we have two stories of |
| 0:21.6 | visitors to America, one of which is going to stay. Charles III is visiting with Queen Camilla. |
| 0:27.5 | His address before Congress is one great applause across the country. His efforts to heal the |
| 0:34.5 | dispute between Washington and London between the president and the prime minister |
| 0:39.1 | is well received. At the same time, he will be departing soon enough with lots of |
| 0:44.2 | hosanas. Another British visitor will stay forever, apparently, because that British visitor |
| 0:51.0 | has been purchased by an American company, McCormick, for 50 billion pounds. |
| 0:56.9 | It is someone I do not know personally, but Simon does. |
| 1:02.3 | Mr. Marmite. |
| 1:03.6 | Simon, what is Marmite to be in America? |
| 1:07.0 | It's a very sticky spread that you put on your toast in the morning along with some butter. |
| 1:14.9 | It's very rich. |
| 1:16.4 | It's made from yeast extract, which is basically a spin-off of the brewing industry, basically the beer brewing industry. |
| 1:27.0 | And it's one of those things that you're either |
| 1:29.1 | going to love as I do as I think I was weaned onto this from from mother's milk and |
| 1:34.8 | or you're going to hate it and a lot of people hate it and I didn't see it very available |
| 1:40.0 | in America and I'm wondering how it's going to go over there anyone who gets their mile might doesn't like it if you're in America, and I'm wondering how it's going to go over there. Anyone who gets their mile and doesn't like it, if you're in America, |
| 1:47.9 | please send it to me because I absolutely love it, and we can't really get it very easily |
| 1:51.5 | here in France. |
| 1:52.6 | Now, when did you start eating it? |
| 1:54.5 | You were a month old, right? |
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