Editing Marmalade (section)

== In popular culture ==

[[File:"Bear Necessities" Paddington Bear, Great Russell Street - geograph.org.uk - 4262782.jpg|thumb|upright|[[John Hurt]]'s marmalade-themed [[Paddington Bear]] statue in London, auctioned to raise funds for the [[National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children|NSPCC]] ]]

[[Paddington Bear]] is known for his liking of marmalade, particularly in sandwiches, and kept it in his hat wherever he went.<ref>{{cite book|title=Paddington: My Book of Marmalade |last=Bond |first=Michael |others= Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum |year=2008 |publisher=HarperCollins Children's |isbn=978-0-00-726946-4}}</ref> Paddington Bear is now used on the label of the smaller peel ("shred") and clearer/milder Robertson's "Golden Shred" marmalade, in place of the previous icon, "[[Golliwog]]", which is considered racially offensive. The 2014 movie ''[[Paddington (film)|Paddington]]'' led to a slight increase in marmalade sales in the UK.<ref name="Grdn">{{cite news |last=Davies |first=Caroline |title=Marmalade in decline as Paddington struggles to lift sales |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/24/marmalade-in-decline-as-paddington-struggles-to-lift-sales |access-date=25 February 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=24 February 2017}}</ref>

In [[Jane Austen]]'s 1811 novel ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' an over-indulgent mother feeds apricot marmalade to her fussy three-year-old child who has been slightly scratched by a pin in the mother's hair.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Austen |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Austen |title=[[Sense and Sensibility]] |year=1811}}</ref> In [[Agatha Christie]]'s 1953 detective novel ''[[A Pocket Full of Rye]]'', the first victim of the murderer is given poison hidden in orange marmalade consumed at breakfast.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dining Room Detectives: Analysing Food in the Novels of Agatha Christie|author=Silvia Baucekova |year=2015|isbn=978-1443877626|publisher=[[Cambridge Scholars Publishing]]}}</ref>