Waterford and Cork: GAA’s marmite and custard

The product’s name has entered British English as a simile for something that is an acquired taste or tends to polarise opinion.

Ever tasted Marmite? Me neither. It’s no staple of Irish kitchens, meaning that the Marmite Test so frequently invoked in British newspapers fails to produce a chime on this side of the water. But basically a Marmite anything is an object that brooks absolutely no indifference. You either love it or you hate it. No in-between.

So there are Marmite songs and Marmite celebrities and Marmite whatever you’re having yourself. And there are Marmite teams. There are definitely Marmite teams.