I tried vegemite years ago on a visit to Perth, but I can't remember if I liked it as I was quite full of warm beer.
Well that has just decided what I'm having for dinner tonight!
Although I brought back Vegemite in a Tube so my application process varies slightly from the guide linked.
Yuk. Almost as bad as Marmite.
Very handy if you want to meet a man from Brussels, six foot tall and full of muscles.
We're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be.
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch, and tea.
Our mother says we're growing
stronger every single week.
Because we love our Vegemite.
We all adore our Vegemite.
It puts a rose in every cheek!
i loved vegemite as a child. after we left australia to return to ireland in the late '70s, the only retail source we knew of was an aussie goods store in london. my dad's return from london trips were eagerly awaited by me and a large sliced pan.
never took to marmite, which was readily available.
I think roryk it depends on what you start with. I can't stand marmite, but crave Vegemite.
Marmite the devil's arse-gum be:
Angels feed 'pon the mite vege.
Vegemite is a cheap Aussie copy of the real thing - Marmite. (Just like Foster's is a cheap copy of the real thing - cat piss.)
Uh-oh me feels a Spreads War coming on.....
Marmite is teh sucks!
Skrik, who claims marmite be best,
Shall feel me cutlass across his chest.
Vegemite is made from the yeast by-products of Australian beer brewing. Marmite is made from the yeast by-products of British beer brewing.
Obviously Vegemite has to be better.
I tried some vegemite spread thinly over butter on a slice of bread when I was a kid, and I liked it. Kinda salty and yeasty.
Oooh, by gum I have to hold my tongue.
You do know what Castlemaine XXXX really stands for, don't you? (Hint: it's not "beer".)
from vegemite.com.au:
In 1928 it was decided that perhaps a name change would revive Vegemite's sluggish sales. In an attempt to emulate the success of the English spread Marmite, Vegemite was renamed "Parwill". However Parwill was only ever sold in Queensland and Walker’s creative play-on-words fell on deaf ears and Parwill failed. Walker went back to the drawing board, and finally realised that the Vegemite brand could work.
i'm so glad the name was reverted.
i said do you speak-a my language?
but he just smiled and gave me a parwill sandwich
Ye who insult the Xs four
Shall wither and die, like Demi Moore
To my uncouth Yankee palate Vegemoite and Marmite taste pretty much the same. And they're equally expensive in the import section of the grocery store. But yeah, I'm craving some myself right now!
So, vegemite's form on the top of a gave, and marmites on the bottom, or did I get that backwards again?
I understand ye comment not.
Have ye been eating marmite, or what?
Gawrsh! I'm a-gonna try some Vegemite tonight - used to have a Kombi, don't-you-know.
Can't access the Vegemite site for some reason... But that's ok. Because it's disgusting stuff. And besides, I have my lovely lovely jar of Marmite.
*hugs lovely lovely jar of Marmite*
People eat this stuff? I always thought it was some sort horrible ointment.
Mothninja hates the food of terra australis
For this she is forever cursed, like Telly Savalas
Ye who claim vegemite is but an ointment
Shall with cruel death have an early appointment
Oooh, by gum I have to hold my tongue.
*blinks innocently* Don't hold back, gimme what chu got, baby! I can take it!
Oo! Yes ma'am!
Whoops
we call no halt
to barley malt
we don't eat right --
no vegemite!
nor marmite slime!
and that is fine!
So, a few years ago I meet this Aussie girl. We fall in lust and she decides to stay with me in Chicago. Things are going great but I can tell she's homesick.
One afternoon, she's going on and on about how she'd kill to get some vegemite. I thought nothing of it and thought it was just a passing whim. Over the next couple of days...every now and then... I would hear her muttering "vegemite" to herself. By the end of the week she announced that she had to find some vegemite. I wanted her to be happy so we went on a vegemite quest. After spending half the day checking every grocery store in the city, we were about to give up.
We were driving on Webster Street when she yelled stop stop. I looked up and there was a small store called "The Austrailia Shoppe" (or something like that...it's long gone now). We immediately stopped and she sprinted from the car into the store.
When she came back she was giggling like a schoolgirl. In her hand was a jar of the fabled vegemite. She opened it up and dipped her fingers into the tarry goo and put some in her mouth. She had a look like a junkie who just scored. Her eyes glazed over and she made moaning noises like someone was pleasuring her.
The jar was in her left hand and she tilted it towards me and said "Try some". Try some?...I couldn't even bear the smell of that crap. It looked like the most vile substance even concoted by man. I'm usually an adventurous eater but nthis stuff looked like it could kill you. I looked at her and said "No fucking way".
She was pissed. I also made the mistake of making fun of the fact that we drove all over Chicago so she could dip her fingers into a jar of poo. We drove home in silence.
For some reason we broke up not too long after this happened.
Fucking vegemite.
You just don't get it Argh. Vegemite is like.... Australian crack baby.
Nothing is gonna curb that craving once it starts....
Oh, and I finally found the name of that store...it was driving me nuts...
The Kangaroo Connection
I like Marmite, it was "the growing-up spread [I] never grew out of". I don't trust the V one. To me it tastes like a mild imitation of the real thing, like spearmint is to peppermint.
Dip finger in Marmite, then in sugar bowl. It's salty, sweet and delicious - it's Salweelicious!
I found Marmite in a shop near Heidelberg cathedral, it sold Trebor Extra Strong Mints, Barbour Jackets and PG Tips as well.
Never had it. Prospects of having it are slim.
Besides -- I was raised in a Dutch household, so my spreads were Nutella and Friesche Vlag Keukenstroop.
I heartily nominate stroop as the greatest spread in the world, if for only the reason that it is the only spread thick and dark enough to have its own Event Horizon. That, and the astronomical sugar content left me high and hyper ev-er-y single day.
Good times, good times...
So many of you are so disowned....
Oy! I've got it on my grocery list! A damp paper towel will fix that, though.
I suppose none of you fucking perverts has ever heard of peanut butter.
"jar of poo" ....
ha ha. right on, Argh!
Never had it. Prospects of having it are slim.
Capt: Superstore has it. G'wan, use the cable installation money on it.
I am glad to know that next time I'm having an existential crisis I can take comfort in knowing that I am an uncultured barbarian seppo and cast aside those annoying philosophical doubts for good!
and 3 cheers for peanut butter!! I went on a pb binge last week (on toast mainly, mmmmmmmmm!!) gotta buy some more now!
Y'alls is crayzy. E'boddy knows whut the best samwich spread is - it's mayonnaise. Mayonnaise samwich and Coke in a bottle, darlin' - yup.
*chomp*
There's a Habanero mayonnaise in the groc. store here that TOTALLY KICKS BUTT.
Petebest I didn't realize you lived in Japan.
wasabi mayonnaise is king
私は同意する!
バカなこと言うと恥ずかしゅくなるよ！
peanut butter, how about just butter...
/opens a detox ward for this people!
petebest, I can no longer be your friend. I didn't realize you belonged to the evil mayonaise cabal. I belong to a faction of mustard-eaters, and we have sworn to eradicate your---type.
runs to shower
I loves me some tangy Vegemite - even have a jar in the cupboard at the moment despite it's exorbitant price here. Hot buttered toast with Vegemite and honey, yum.
I love to put peanut butter on bread, then stick it in my toaster oven. Yum!
*joins Medusa in the mustard faction -- mayonaise is nasty*
mer, try it on a waffle. its DIVINE!!
Gomi sez:
Vegemite is like.... Australian crack baby.
Crack baby spread, anyone?
Roasted garlic rocks the hizzouse, though. *drools*
OK I'm real glad thus thread appeared because now I know (1) which of you are intelligent beautiful generous wonderful sexy vegemite-lovers and (2) that the rest of you are horrible fucking idiots who should be boiled in goat lard. Thanks.
Anyone else read the sidebar as Vegemite for Mormons?
Goat lard is better for baking than Crisco, btw.
yes, but which is better for goat-fucking? quid?
yes, but which is better for goat-fucking? quid?
A travelling friend once brought back from Australia a small, toy-like round jar of the stuff. She kept it for months unopened. One day while I was visiting, she offered to share it. But as we ended up going out for coffee & dessert, the jar remained unused. Later, I asked her about it. She gave it away.
Guess it's one more thing I have to try, now that all you addicts have wetted my curiosity. Ah, interweb, always with your lures...
Monkeyfilter: We fall in lust
marmite is better.
So...where does Promite fit into the equation?
For years, being from Canada, jb would not allow me to eat Marmite at all. I had to sneak marmite sandwhiches while she was away like some kind of furtive yeast junkie. Then, one day, my parents gave her some vegimite. I don't know what it was about the vegimite, but jb decided that not only did she like it but now she also liked marmite and began eating it voraciously.
Vegimite, you see, is obviously the gateway drug for marmite.
The best sandwich on the face of the earth: Marmite, lettuce, and cheese, on white bread (really).
Hey baby it's cool, I'm about the mustard too y'know.
*sneaks mayo onto toast with cheese*
And while we're on the subject, can I get an amen for toast? Testify!
Any red-wine-vinegar people out there! Props!
Toast! It rocks!
(btw petebest tartare sauce with cheese on toast is something to be experienced)
Mmmmmmmmmmm, toast.
"Brown bread, white bread,
All kinds of whole meal bread
That comes in funny packages
With writing on the side..."
Done, and done!
presently enjoying turkey boob, pepper jack and MOOOOOOO-tard on some sorta wholewheat bread. yum....
and I'm a balsamic vinegar girl, petebeast >:P
On a sub? You twisted fiend!!
Now on a salad, of course dahlink, but a sandwich? Tsk! You must *embrace* the cultured, zingy, je ne sais quois of ze red wine vineegaar! Mwwwah! C'est magnifique! Anh hunh huhn huhhh! D'accord?
no only mustard on sammiches
and bacon....
MonkeyFilter: Nothing is gonna curb that craving once it starts....
MonkeyFilter: I suppose none of you fucking perverts has ever heard of peanut butter.
MonkeyFilter: The rest of you are horrible fucking idiots who should be boiled in goat lard.
WOOT!
A toast to toast!
*mixes ketchup (yes, KETCHUP) with some mayo, adds a pinch of lemon juice, leaves on bowl. Brings another bowl of guacamole (yes, from fresh AVOCADOS). Adds some balsamic vinegar to fresh lettuce salad. Dips a shrimp on mayo/ketchup mix & guacamole, gobbles it while munching on dripping, oily lettuce leave*
So, what are you punks gonna do about it, eh?
If you need a step-by-step guide for your spread, then it's too damned much work. Give me may-yo-nnaise!
Flagpole, you are a depraved PERVERT!!!
people eating yeast infection on toast calling americans septic tanks, huh... i'll just stick with my frothy mug of soylent green, here...
"Yeast Infection on Toast"... Sounds like the title for some PSA about sanitary guidelines on the food service industry.
that's not nearly as foul as despoiling the natural beauty and goodness that is CHEESE (back me up here, homeslice--get it? get it? I am calling es el queso 'homeslice', like a slice-a cheese, like...get it?) with the vile gunk the wily French foisted on you fools-mayonnaise--BLAH!!
did I share with you all that I am going off my meds??? I think I am doing VERY well. Don't you???
No Vegemite! Yuck! Only Marmite!
I also have a friend who swears by Bovril, but only from UK. I once had a bottle of New Zealand ~mite (can't remember if it was Marmite or Vegemite now), by the Sanatorium. eeeewww.... it took me more than a year to finish it, and my mom insisted I had to before she would buy me a proper bottle of Marmite. The horror! The horror!
You are in so much trouble now Alnedra.
Post-grocery report: it saddens me to admit that my closest grocer here in Far Eastern Canada had only Marmite from (Creepy-?) Crawley, England, but I swear I've seen Vegemite somewhere here, and will persist, the better to compare the two in an unbiased, Northern Hemisphere, New World way.
Rationalist!!
It's gross, pete. Where's that woman with my bucket?
I go through phases of liking/loathing Marmite (the NZ, Sanitarium, brand) and am currently loathing. We craved it while we lived in the States so we bought some English Marmite, thinking it would be the same.
Holy crap, that English crap is crappy. By which I mean I guess you have to be English to like it or something. Ugh.
I can see how it would present possibilities in the gravy of my twice-annual homemade tofurkey. And great in soups!
I usually eat sammiches with just mustard, because mustard not only looks happy yellow, it tastes happy yellow. However, when I'm feeling fancy I'll use hummus on a sammich with turkey and cheese.
The Safeway here only has Marmite. Guess I'll have to bring some Vegemite back with me when I go to Sydney.
Check with the local Mormons.
Are you *really* going to Oz? Bring us back a wattle!
Hey given that vegemite is THE SPread and all - can i ask why chees in the US and Canada is kinda orange and if you sk the questio - why is it that colour - you get the response - um cos cheese is orange???? Like i know some cheese is orange/red but?????
fly - we're really stupid on this continent, and can't tell 'cheddar' from mozzarella unless we add colour.
Also - they're extra-stoopid in Quebec because their margarine is white to distinguish it from butter!
I was always more of a fan of the lesser-known Vecon.
The Safeway here only has Marmite.
That sounds like a line in an action movie. Y'know just before the building explodes in a massive fireball.
Guess I'll have to bring some Vegemite back with me when I go to Sydney.
Shut! Up!
Really?
Yeah, Koko are going to run away to Australia together.
Unfortunately, due to scheduling issues, we can't run away together at the same time, so we'll actually miss one another by about four months.
Are you *really* going to Oz? Bring us back a wattle!
Really! I'll not only bring back a wattle, I'll stick it in a bottle!
we'll actually miss one another by about four months
Four months and a few hundred miles, by my estimation. But we're trying to commit adultery, and that's what counts!
Oh wait, adultery is bad ... shit
Luuuuuserrrrrr!
There's only one right thing to do. Give me the ticket. Or, heck, buy me one. That's fair. You know it. C'maaaaaan.
Yes, send pete to far-away Australia!
Extra Koko on that please.
*reclines, pulls on eye shades*
Let's all go to Australia! We can crash on Chy's couch, and he'll feed us Vegemite sammiches and giant cans of Foster's.
Oh god, I wouldn't give anyone Foster's. That would be cruel. Foster's is a joke we play on foriegners. It's kangaroo piss.
No shit. Say, what is the most popular cheese beer 'round here?
(make that best beer. Not most popular.)
Bleedin' Watney's Red Barrel!
my kisses taste like beer...
Let me guess. You're not going to come and visit me, are you? IT'S ONLY AN EXTRA THREE HOURS.
I will try, but the "cruise director" (my mother-in-law) seems reluctant. Seems to think there's not enough time, even though we're there for 2 weeks. Maybe if I pout and stamp my feet some more ...
And I agree, Fosters is the worst tasting beer I've ever had.
Never had Valstar? Haven't lived, at least in the bad beer stakes. Here's a clue ... it comes in a plastic bottle.
I am not actually awake yet.
Sleep-posting is a terrible affliction. Have some Marmite, that'll wake you up.
I'd rather drink 'Pepsi',
I'd rather drink 'Coke',
than drink Foster's lager,
It makes me choke!
(Ditty, courtesy of an Kalgoorlie 'Ocker'.)
Vegemite is enjoyable, Promite is better.
Promite sounds like something to buy at HomeDepot
More like something that's infesting your home furniture. 'Ah, darn promite, I sit in here this creaky chair, it turned to dust under my butt'.
Ok, don't ask how, but I've managed to get hold of this. Will sample it tomorrow, possibly. Any suggestions for the proper procedure to fully enjoy it?
Mr Sport: So, Captain, do you recommend the smectite?
Captain Fun: Great gourd hormitey!
It looks like a giant knob.
Flagpole, the procedure described in the post is the most likely to produce tangy taste-bud enjoyment. Preferably with a cup of tea as well (I actually dunk my vegemite-toast in me' tea, which I freely admit is bizarre but I've been doing it since I was a nipper).
91% delish: Came across a jar of Peck's Anchovette the other day, and am enjoying some right now. Amazing on a Triscuit.
btw the way Alnedra...
VEGEMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!
Vitameatavegamin?
*takes a deeeeep breath*
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!
You people are weird.
What smells in here?
he sampled it and said in haste
'some Kalamata olives made into a paste
I spread
on vegemiteless nine-grain bread
it gave me that fullish feeling
which is so appealing
after one is starved'
at which the Ozzies sneered and larved
Tried a bag of these over the weekend. To be exact, I tried about a half dozen of them. All I can say is that I'm not British enough for Marmite.
A bag of...?
Oops. I guess my attempts to repress all memories of them are starting to work!! This is what I was trying to link too.
Yum - one third fatty goodness!
Twiglets have that marmitey goodness. Give 'em a go Northern Exposed.
If you have never had a twiglet its hard to comprehend the taste by just using your mind. Its a heady mix of marmite with a touch of bovril styled flavouring but is very much an aquired taste.
No s**t!
I have bought and tried Guinness Marmite! It is Marmite made using the yeast extract they use for Guinness, rather than the regular yeast extract. As such, it tastes exactly the same as regular Marmite. And it doesn't even have booze in it!
cheesebeer 'round here?