The image on the front of the British jar shows a " marmite " (), a French term for a large, covered earthenware or metal cooking pot.

On the 1980 British Television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht created a voltaic cell using a jar filled with grape juice, to produce half a volt of electricity, demonstrating for the programme that jars used this way could electroplate a silver statuette in two hours, using a gold cyanide solution.

Just as the Germans were about to arrive in Paris in 1940, Feldenkrais fled to Britain with a jar of " heavy water " and a sheaf of research material with instructions to deliver them to the British Admiralty War Office.

British scientist William Thomson ( Lord Kelvin ) in 1853 showed mathematically that the discharge of a Leyden jar through an inductance should be oscillatory, and derived its resonant frequency.

The heads of the " four sons of Horus " as canopic jar stoppers, on display at the British Museum

Recent real-world examples include the finding of a cross inside a halved potato ; the appearance of Jesus and Mary inside a halved orange ; and the appearance of Jesus ' face on a piece of toast, in the frost on a car window, and inside the lid of a jar of Marmite.

Marmite ( ) is the name given to two similar food spreads: the original British version, first produced in the United Kingdom and later South Africa ; and a version produced in New Zealand.

This is the only produce sold as Marmite in Australasia and the Pacific, whereas elsewhere in the world the British version predominates.

British Marmite was originally supplied in earthenware pots, but since the 1920s has been sold in glass jars of approximately the same shape.

New Zealand Marmite is described as having a " weaker " or " less tangy " flavour than the British version.

During World War I British troops were issued with Marmite as part of their rations.

It is similar to British, New Zealand, and South African Marmite, Australian Promite, Swiss Cenovis, and German Hefeextrakt.

It is not as intensely flavoured as British Marmite and it is less sweet than the New Zealand version of Marmite.

Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P. Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries.

New Zealand Marmite is distinct from British Marmite, in taste and recipe.

The song played a part in Blur's supposed feud with fellow Britpop band Oasis at the 1996 BRIT Awards when the Gallagher brothers, Liam and Noel, taunted Blur by singing a drunk rendition of " Parklife " ( with Liam changing the lyrics to " Shite-life " and Noel shouting " Marmite ") when the members of Oasis were collecting the " Best British Album " award, which both bands had been nominated for.