Apparently eating lots of marmite to ward them off is an urban legend
(supposedly the B vitamins makes your skin taste manky to them)
That's not going to stop me.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 15:22, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It's quite clearly bollocks.
I eat a substantial quality of marmite on a daily basis and the buggers are still going for me.

And when you consider that marmite is derived from ale yeast, if that were true then I should be completely immune to the little fuckers...
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 15:24, Reply)

Is that true?!
I was told it was beer. I can't tell the difference to be perfectly honest.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 15:25, Reply)

Fuller's Brewery used to supply Marmite with spent yeast from their fermenting vessels
I believe Boddington's did the same.

Apparently Marmite now have enough spent ale yeast to last them for many years and have stopped buying it from them.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 19 Jul 2010, 15:30, Reply)