In the uk, if somethings slipts peoples opinion, we say “its like marmite. You either love it or you hate it”. What’s the American equivalent to that?

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1. I’ve heard the saying, just not with the marmite part attached. Simply, “You love it or you hate it”

2. Skub was a term for the chronically online at one point. I am personally, pro skub.

3. Pineapple on pizza?

4. Nothing comes to mind specifically. I’ve definitely heard variations of that phrase, but there’s never a universal object of focus.

5. Licorice

6. licorice

7. >opinions are like assholes; everybodies got one.

8. Pickled crappie

9. Moxie.

10. Different strokes for different folks

11. “Opinions are like assholes. Everybody’s got one.”

    “To each, their own.”

    “Whatever floats your boat.”

12. “You love them, you hate them, you can’t live without them. Women ☕”

13. I’ve never heard of “slipts” or “marmite” but I’m guessing the equivalent here would be pineapple on pizza

14. black licorice/ anise

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    “if somethings slipts peoples opinion” seriously, is English your mother tongue?

15. Dr. Pepper

16. Probably root beer. I’ve heard so many comments that it tastes like medicine

17. It’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

18. I don’t think I reference a food or a thing I just call it polarizing. Like, “They’re a very polarizing band, you either love them or hate them.”

19. We use the same saying but wouldn’t use Marmite as the example. There is not one common example, it depends on your own preferences, but examples of polarizing foods in the US could be anchovies, black licorice, pineapple on pizza, or cilantro (cilantro is less a polarizing food, but some people sadly have a unique gene that makes it taste like soap).

20. Nobody really illustrates “you love it or hate it.”

    But cilantro (coriander leaves) is a good one in principle.

21. “It’s either 6 of one or half a dozen of the other”

22. Nobody is neutral about X. You either love it/them or hate it/them.

23. “Not their thing.”

    Marmite? 🤮

24. Jelly & peanut butter🤮🤢

25. Cilantro

26. “We’ll have to agree to disagree.” And the all-time worst: “It is what it is.”

27. Our political system where you only have two options to choose from and they are both as bad and each one is worse than the other or both are extremes in their views

28. “America. Love it or leave it.” is a common phrase yet completely misses the point of what America is supposed to be.

29. maybe candy corn?

30. Anchovies? Maybe pineapple?

    On pizza, of course.

31. With respect to cars and motorcycles, where the British would say it’s a Marmite car (meaning as you say, people love it or hate it) in the states it’s reasonably common to call it a “Rodney Dangerfield car” for the same reason.

32. I like to use eggnog. You either love it or hate it.

33. I thought marmite was an Australian thing, not a UK thing