Debra Roberts - Winner !
Marmite Please send me home.....
I love Marmite, I cook with it, I eat it and I share it. I convert as many Canadians as I can to enjoy and learn that MARMITE ABSOLUTELY RATES MOST INTENSE TASTE EXPERIENCE!! I have had MARMITE sent to me on a regular basis here in Canada for the last 23 years, and as I have only been able to get home once in the last 23 years, means I am well overdue to come home to see my family and friends. My dad is going blind and I want him to see me before he cant see anything anymore. My mum has been diagnosed with Cancer and I would love to spend christmas with her and catch up on each others lives from the last 23 years. This competition has been the highlight of my dads day every day since I entered. With his special computer for the blind, he has been encouraging so many people to vote for me and has been tracking this competition just as much as I have been. Please Marmite, I am so excited to have an opportunity to participate and hope that you will see that I deserve a trip home in celebration of your 100 years of making New Zealanders a healthy bunch of people. Marmite is a health food! Please please choose me, my mum and dad deserve to see me again. Thanks for the opportunity Marmite. You Rock!!
Oh to be in Te Awamutu
Enjoying the sun, with my daughter Tammy, mum and dad, friends and family some I havent seen in 23 and more years. Please Marmite, dont leave me here in Canada for another COLD snowy winter! To be able to enjoy those Marmite Smores around a camp fire and my Marmite and chippie sandwiches - I cant wait!
31 October 10 at 7:08am
427!!! c'mon everyone! we can do it!!! VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!!!
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31 October 10 at 9:03am
REASONS you should bring mum home.... *ahem* 1- Because we miss her lots over here! 2- She owes me for missing my 21st next week 3- I'll save heaps not having to post Marmite home this xmas! 4- She didn't know what a Tim Tam was until i brought some home for her (she's been away THAT long) 5- This might be her last chance to come over for another .... 23 years probably! And lots more. Thanks for a great competition Marmite! Can't wait to see Mum *cough cough*....
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Dreaming of a hot christmas
I want to be able to have a BBQ on christmas day this year........instead of having a BBQ buried under snow! Please Marmite send me home for christmas so I can enjoy a family reunion around the family BBQ. :-)
29 October 10 at 12:06am
My BBQ at christmas - I need the sun this christmas - in Te Awamutu, please send me home!
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30 October 10 at 6:34am
Haha! An xmas BBQ would be much more enjoyable here!! I'll get my shrimps out to throw on it =P
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Marmite can do this......
My story in the local newspaper in Te Awamutu, where I am hoping to get home for christmas too....
24 October 10 at 8:32pm
Can't wait to catch up with you. Maybe we can share a Marmite sandwich together. Please bring Debra home. The oldest cousin in the family can't wait to see her. :)
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24 October 10 at 11:19pm
Yay Lorraine - I cant wait either - Marmite is making a lot of people happy!
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25 October 10 at 9:02am
please please please marmite!! please send my mummy home, there is so much that my mum misses from new zealand that you just cant get here in canada...or if you can, its no where near the same...for example MARMITE!!!! L&P or ice cream!!! pretty pretty please with jelly tip ice cream on top!!!
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Marmite make me feel better...
Marmite makes me feel better - it reminds me of home and helps take away some of the feelings of homesickness........
Marmite is.......
M - Marmite
A - Absolutely
R - Rates
M - Most
I - Intense
T - Taste
E - Experience
22 October 10 at 12:58pm
Hi Trish - it will be so nice to see you again after all these years....this is a great competition so I really hope to win a ticket home. So much time has past by eh?
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22 October 10 at 5:26pm
Good luck Debra - give us a call if you make it to TA. Denise & Ken
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22 October 10 at 7:12pm
Hi Denise and Ken - I will certainly give you a call when I get back at christmas, thanks for voting :-)
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Marmite experience
I have converted another Canadian to Marmite - but Marmite on bread with peanut butter and sprouts! yummy? But hey she likes Marmite and thats what counts.
23 October 10 at 7:15am
I am the Canadian who was converted to Marmite. I am a vegan and appreciate a spread I can put on bread. It also makes my gravies and broth a deep rich brown with a wonderful taste and I mix it with vegan mayonaise with minced fresh or a teaspoon of dried onion to make the classic french onion dip vegan friendly. Debra has been a coworker for several years and people here are disarmed by her friendly smile and charming kiwi accent. The entire office is hoping she has the opportunity to fly home this Christmas.
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23 October 10 at 12:56pm
Thanks Sheilaigh - I appreciate everyone's votes and your dedication to MARMITE!! I am going to try your vegan french onion dip!
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My Trip Funds Jar
My jar of Marmite is trying so hard to get me home but the trip fund jar is not filling up so fast. Please help me get home for christmas!
21 October 10 at 4:51pm
BEST OF LUCK DEBRA. AM SUPPORTING YOU AFTER READING YOUR STORY IN THE COURIER. CHEERS DENISE POWELL
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21 October 10 at 4:54pm
Thank you to the Editor at the Courier for taking the time and effort to contact me and putting my story in the paper! I love Te Awamutu and cant wait to get back there. Thanks Denise for your vote. :-)
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21 October 10 at 10:13pm
ALL THE BEST DEBRA,I KNOW YOUR MUM AND DAD ARE HOPING AND PRAYING FOR YOU TO GET HOME ,SO YOU GO GIRL,BEST OF LUCK
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Marmite's other best buddy "Kiwi"
Marmite and Kiwi keep each other company when ever they get homesick for Te Awamutu New Zealand. Please send us home to reunite with the rest of the family...........
17 October 10 at 4:39am
Mum needs to win to get a plane ticket home for christmas, if not, all she has is Kiwi...and they wont get far with kiwis little nubs for wings
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Marmite's buddy "Dog"
While living in Canada Marmite has been keeping company with special buddies "Dog"
Trying to get home
Marmite may have to Paddle Home for christmas using hands as the paddles were lost.........
16 October 10 at 8:47pm
Great pics Debra keep up the good work do you remember who made the canoe looking forward to looking at the Courer on tuesday we are stocking up on Marmite for when you get here cheers.
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17 October 10 at 4:52am
Yes I sure do remember that you carved this canoe dad - I might have to paddle it home for christmas if I dont win a ticket! Love you dad
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What I put up with in Canada
Can you imagine only finding "vegemite" on the grocery shelf and shriveled up Kiwi Fruit at 99 cents EACH!!!! Bring me home so I can have my MARMITE and yummy FRESH KIWI FRUIT!
16 October 10 at 3:03pm
Dr Mr. Marmite, You, I am sure, realize that not all of us are able to communicate our very deepest, finest feelings in prose, therefore, please accept this puny effort at verse for your consideration; keeping in mind it is solely for the benefit of Debra's effort to gain your favor so she could be reunited with her long lost families in Te Awamutu. Marmite how I adore thee/ How my taste buds yearn for thee/ How they desire thy salty richness/ Noble and good your boast/ Give me, I plead/ Give me, in deed,/ Marmite on my toast. Most sincerely yours.
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18 October 10 at 10:00pm
Sounds like you really love Marmite keep up the good work you are really trying hard to get Debra home cheers .
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28 October 10 at 10:56am
If I could afford to buy an airline ticket for Debra I would do so. I have also voted for Debra so she can get home to see you both.
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Marmite is the new Peanut Butter for Canada!
Thanks to everyone voting for me......I will send you all a case of Marmite.............marmite is the new Peanut Butter for Canada!! :-)
2 October 10 at 7:32am
I definately prefer peanut butter to Marmite. Sorry :O( Darrell
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2 October 10 at 1:37pm
but thats because your a canadian dad, I cant help that I get my kiwi taste buds from mum! Marmite is so delicious, and I've got Darren (my son) hooked on it too!
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Send me home for Christmas
To be at home at christmas in the hot and sunny weather of NZ would be awesome. To be able to enjoy my marmite on toast, L&P, minties, jellytip icecream and all the specialties of home that I miss living in Canada would be the best xmas present ever!!! Please send me home for xmas! :-) :-)
28 September 10 at 10:09am
When any of my family from new zealand ask me what i want them to send me...I say MARMITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when i have it....I use it VERY SPARINGLY because i want to make it last as long as I can until i can get my hands on another jar!
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28 September 10 at 5:49pm
Okay everyone - help me get home and I will bring all you Canadians and CANAKIWIS some marmite and oven mitts back from NZ.
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I love Marmite
I love Marmite!!!!! :-) The best thing on toast since sliced bread!
Help me get home for christmas
All I want for christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth - oh right I already have them, I just want to get home to see my family that I have only seen once in the last 23 years.........please please please, with a cherry on top!! And to be able to eat my authentic marmite home in Te Awamutu with be the icing on the cake. Mmmm marmite and lettuce sandwiches - yum!!
15 September 10 at 3:04pm
Oh and dont forget the marmite and chippie sandwiches yum!!!
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18 September 10 at 6:37pm
what about marmite and onion sandwitches with extra marmite laced with a little bit of marmite bring Debra home Mum and Dad would love to see her again
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21 September 10 at 4:30pm
Marmite makes yummy gravy as Deb proved. Good luck Deb, hope you get the trip home to see your folks! -Mike
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Canadian Camping
It rains in Canada too - but kiwis are tough and we can handle it!
2 October 10 at 10:08am
well it hasn't stopped raining in like a month =P see if Canadians could handle that!
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Raglan
The black sands of Raglan
15 September 10 at 3:05pm
Mr daughter in NZ enticing me home - please send me home! :-)
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Canakiwi
Canakiwi
2 October 10 at 8:49am
Doesn't that just make you all patriotic. Got my vote.
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21 September 10 at 4:41pm
Debra is way overdue for a return visit home to New Zealand. Besides, she needs to bring back a case of Marmite for all her Canadian friends. Send her home please!
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13 October 10 at 10:21am
Pam and myself would realy love to have Debra home for x mas its a long time since we have seen each other and enjoyed a big hug as her mum is battling cancer and I have lost a lot of my eye sight it would be mighty to see what I can of her befor my eye sight fails to a stage that I can no longer see her . So please Marmite bring her homr for Christmas
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450 votes
Judging
Sure, you may have 100,000 facebook friends to vote for you but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the plane. It’s a quality, then quantity rule round here. We’ll be making our decision based on originality and creativity, how well your entry fits with the values of the Marmite brand, then popularity.
31 October 10 at 10:59am
Yes it has been the highlight of my day trying hard to get you home it would be great it's been too long and with my eye sight the way it is it would be a pitty for it to be too late to see you again you have worked hard on this competition and I would like to thank all the people who have voted for Debra to help her on her way so good luck Debra we have stocked up with MARMITE for you.Hope to see you at Christmas for a big reunion Mum and Dad xxxxx
Report this comment31 October 10 at 5:53pm
I love you mum! I really hope you get a ticket home for christmas, I know how much it means to you and all of us who love you. I've done my last vote and it has been an exciting experience. I just wanted to make this one last post before the competition is over. I also wanted to say one last THANK YOU to everyone who has been following my mum on here and supporting her by voting every day, it means the world to me mum and our whole family. xoxo
Report this comment31 October 10 at 10:27pm
Good luck Debra,I just did the 450 vote,I know it means so so so much to your mum and dad for you to come home ,so hope your wish and there wish will all come true, LOTS AND LOTS OF LUCK<
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