Question on Vegimite

[VideoNasty]

background: thanks to growing up in the 80's I developed an obsession with Australia from things like Men At Work's 'Down Under', Midnight Oil, the Crocodile Dundee movies etc etc. About 5-6 years ago an aquaintance was traveling to New Zealand and Australia...I begged tham to bring me back some Vegimite as my young impressionable mind had remembered it from the Men At Work song "he just smiled and gave me a vegimite sandwich"
so I tried the vegimite on a cracker and almost died....it was the worst thing i had ever tasted!!!! unfortunately my obsession with the land down under ended promptly with the vegimite incident(only to resurge after seeing the movie Romper Stomper and falling in love with Russell Crowe)

so the point of this post.......


What is vegimite? Do people actually eat it?!?!? Does it actually taste good? Can someone explain this to me...through the laughter, that is, as I realize I must sound awfully silly. But its something that has bothered me since the vegimite incident.

[MattyG]

Heh....that is a funny thing to post about!! Still - no worse than perky Nana's I guess

Anyway I eat vegemite everyday and your post just made me realise that I have no idea whats in it. It does taste damn good though especially:

- On toast
- On crackers
- In vegemite and Cheese sandwiches. (Toasted or untoasted).

Funny that you didn't like it...I just grew up with it. Must be an acquired taste I guess, like how I cant stand wine and coffee makes me nauseous.

[Spec2 Girl]

Vegemite is great on toast (especially vogels toast) :licker: I can only take it in small doses though as it’s really strong.

[VideoNasty]

okay so i figured it was an aquired taste.... much like collard greens and ham hocks her down south

but whats in the stuff! i remember it having a distinct smell, and an overpowering taste! it was black and thick like jelly.....but nothing at all like it!

[darkness]

MARMITE is better!!!, (for you yanks marmite looks the same but tastes better)

[Spec2 Girl]

Here ya go. This is what's in Vegemite. It's pretty similar to Marmite really.

Vegemite:
Yeast extract, salt, malt extract, colour(caramel), vegetable flavours, vitamins (niacin, thiamine, riboflavin)

Notice how salt is one of the ingredients at the front of the list. That's why it tastes so salty.

[MattyG]

Originally posted by FTO Girl:

Here ya go. This is what's in Vegemite. It's pretty similar to Marmite really.

Vegemite:
Yeast extract, salt, malt extract, colour(caramel), vegetable flavours, vitamins (niacin, thiamine, riboflavin)

Notice how salt is one of the ingredients at the front of the list. That's why it tastes so salty.

FTO Girl tell me you didn't just go out and buy some to find that out......

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by MattyG


FTO Girl tell me you didn't just go out and buy some to find that out......

Nope. I let Google do the work for me!

[YogsVR4]

For a minute there I thought this was about that Vita Vita Vegamin episode of "I Love Lucy"

[Judge]

Originally posted by FTO Girl
Vegemite is great on toast (especially vogels toast) :licker: I can only take it in small doses though as it’s really strong.

oh, oh, oh!!! peanut butter put on vogel bread when its still warm so the peanut buter melts with heaps of margerine first is deluxe!!
same goes for vegemite.

[Jimster]

I like Vegemite, but Marmite:apuke: that stuff burns the roof of your mouth

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by Judge

oh, oh, oh!!! peanut butter put on vogel bread when its still warm so the peanut buter melts with heaps of margerine first is deluxe!!

Yum, peanut butter on warm toast! :licker: It’s all gooey and sticky. YUM!!

[YogsVR4]

Originally posted by FTO Girl
Yum, peanut butter on warm toast! :licker: It’s all gooey and sticky. YUM!!

Slap a little honey on there and NOW you've got something.

[Sanchi]

Originally posted by YogsVR4
For a minute there I thought this was about that Vita Vita Vegamin episode of "I Love Lucy"

heheeh ditto

[moondog]

yum! Vegemite rules!!!!! I am an extremely sick puppy and have eaten it by itself, straight from the spoon as a snack I love it


But marmite........ewwwwwwwwww, and bloody Promite's even bloody worse :apuke: