This is probably one of the largest controversies in Denmark. Since 2004, when the law passed, the country has banned food products with added fortified vitamins. Until now, the sticky brown yeast extract known as Marmite has escaped government scrutiny. But no more.
The Danish government has banned Marmite under that 2004 law. The ruling has sparked some outrage among the large foreign communities that love the yeasty spread.
"What am I supposed to put on my toast now?" asked British advertising executive Colin Smith in The Guardian. "I still have a bit left in the cupboard, but it's not going to last long."
Other Brits took an even more radical approach approach to the ban.
"They don't like it because it's foreign," Lyndsay Jensen, a Yorkshire-born graphic designer, said. "But if they want to take my Marmite off me they'll have to wrench it from my cold dead hands."
A store that sells British and South African products was upset because Marmite was their best-selling product. Expats have already planned "Expats Annual Marmite Day in Denmark" for June 6 and several Facebook groups opposing the ban have appeared.
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