Marmite… We Bloody Love It!

For this week’s British Pantry, we’re paying due respect to Marmite. ‘You either love it or you hate it’, apparently. We bloody love it!! Here’s Nicky with a fantastic piece of Marmite pop art – and below we’ve picked our top five limited edition products featuring the deliciously gooey black stuff.

Tea & Sympathy’s Top 5: Limited Edition Marmite Products

5. Royal Marmite

We’ve featured this one before. Produced especially for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee earlier this year.

4. Marmite Love

With Champagne!

3. Marmite Vaseline

If you ever wanted a kiss from us, here’s your secret weapon!!

2. Marmite Absinthe

This would have been top spot, but unfortunately it’s just a joke!

1. Guinness Marmite

Two of our all time favorite flavors. In one jar. Heaven!

Royal Ascot: Horse Racing, Champagne & The Queen’s Hat

Royal Ascot is an annual horse race with more pedigree than Red Rum. Dating back to 1711, it is attended every year by a host of British royalty who come to as much out of a sense of tradition as to indulge their gambling habits – one of the Queen Mother’s two great pleasures, the other being gin.

Volume II: The Queen Mother’s Liquor Cabinet!

But with a reputation for hedonism, your average Joe and Jane can have just as much fun. Here’s how the New York Times chose to describe proceedings:

The festival, held every June at Ascot Racecourse west of London, is essentially a five-day party built around top-class horses. Each day starts with a Royal Procession and ends with drunken singing around the bandstand. In between, of course, there are the races — 36 in total, including seven top-level Group 1 contests.

This year promises to be especially raucous because of the Queen’s Jubilee, with organisers erecting over 2.5 miles of bunting and estimating 170,000 bottles of Champagne will be drunk by the 300,000 race-goers over the course of five days!

And while we’re sure all the racing malarkey is jolly good fun, Ladies’ Day is when we pay most attention, as the emphasis switches from horses to fashion. You can even bet on the colour of the Queen’s hat!

CBS – The Royal Wedding at Tea & Sympathy

Here are a few articles on our Royal Wedding celebrations from the lovely people at CBS:

Tea & Sympathy Prepares For Royal Wedding Bash
April 25, 2011 12:11 PM

Prince William and Kate Middleton (credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There will be several places around the City where you can watch the royal wedding this Friday.

A royal block party is being planned outside Nicky Perry’s Tea & Sympathy restaurant on Greenwich Avenue.

“It’s all I’ve done for the last month it’s been unbelievable. It’s like royal wedding central,” Perry said. “We’re going to be up, I’m sure, all night, because we’re going to decorate the block with bunting, and we can’t do that the night before.”

The festivities begin at 6 a.m.

“The most exciting thing will be the dress. The second most exciting thing will be the kiss on the balcony because, do you know the first royal couple to kiss on the balcony was Charles and Diana?” she said.

“I can’t wait to see the dress. I just want to take it all in,” one patron said.

Perry regards the royal wedding as a tribute to Princess Diana.

“I think it just destroyed people emotionally. I know it did for me, and I think that this is now the opportunity for us all to get behind her son and wish him happiness,” she said.

Perry was expecting hundreds to attend the party on this side of the pond. Champagne included.

“I’m probably going to have 8 million drunk and disorderly people out here. Thank goodness I get along with the Sixth Precinct,” she said.