Hmmmm...Vegemite?

Centaur · Apr 22, 2005

I tried vegemite on toast (not thinly spread, too!) Actually, I found it to be quite tasty. It has an earthy, wholesome taste. So here's one American who likes it.

Although it looks like something that came out of the southern end of a northbound kangaroo...

Hector_Victorious · Apr 22, 2005

Quigley was an awesome movie....

fudo · Apr 23, 2005

:barf: :barf: :barf:

djolney · Apr 25, 2005

Vegemite is the breakfast food of champions!

It tastes like a combination of salt, the solids left in the bottom of a beer bottle, and just a bit of beef stock.

Almost every American I know dislikes it, because it is not sweet or subtle.

Steve Hayden · Apr 25, 2005

I am American and my favorite pizza is with anchovys and jalepenos, neither of whoch is sweet and subtle. I eat chile (red or green) at least twice a day. I like salt but without the rotten stuff they put in the Vegemite.

djolney · Apr 25, 2005

Note that I only mentioned why most of the Americans I know don't like vegemite.

It's the rotten stuff that gives vegemite its great taste.

Anchovys are salty, but not as intense as vegemite.

eleven · Apr 25, 2005

I have an old jar, on the back it says "PACKED ON 0694" which would make it almost exactly 11 years old. It is unopened and still sealed, but there is no expiration information. Is it still good to eat? I want to try it.

Ilovetoolsteel · Apr 25, 2005

Hector_Victorious said:
Has anyone here ever tried this stuff? I've heard from Aussies that it is great, but a lot of Americans seem to hate it. What does it taste like?

Thanks.

They just started selling it here in the Detroit area. $4.00 for a small jar. Seems excessive considering that some have described the taste as soy flavored axle grease.

djolney · Apr 25, 2005

Eleven,

I wouldn't eat eleven year old vegemite.

New jars have best by dates, and recommend long term storage in the refrigerator.

eleven · Apr 25, 2005

djolney said:
Eleven,

I wouldn't eat eleven year old vegemite.

New jars have best by dates, and recommend long term storage in the refrigerator.

Thanks. I'll have to get a new jar.

Ming65 · Apr 25, 2005

eleven said:
Thanks. I'll have to get a new jar.

Ah c'mon mate, don't be a sissy, live on the edge. Open that jar, have a couple of spoonfulls then report back and tell us about the trip

eleven · Apr 25, 2005

Ming65 said:
Ah c'mon mate, don't be a sissy, live on the edge. Open that jar, have a couple of spoonfulls then report back and tell us about the trip

Don't make me send the jar back over there! I actually got it out to try it today before asking about the date, but I didn't have any butter so got delayed. Now I'm glad I waited

djolney · Apr 25, 2005

My guess is that customs would seize it as an unidentifiable organism.

Ming65 · Apr 25, 2005

eleven said:
Don't make me send the jar back over there!

Send it to Guantanamo Bay. Serve it up there and they'll have the address of Osama Bin Ladens cave in record time.

BOK · Apr 25, 2005

Marmite's good stuff. There's another version of it in South Africa called Bovril. Same thing different label.

Boiling water, mix an egg into it and now you have a delicious beef soup in about 30 secs!

Novadak · Apr 26, 2005

I LOVE Marmite on buttered toast, with or without a drizzle of honey. I remember Vegemite being delicious as well. Give it a try -- you might like it, especially if you like salty/savory foods. It's totally yummy.

Disclaimer:
1. I've never been even remotely successful at getting anyone else to eat Marmite.
2. The Australian who fed Vegemite to me said that I was the only American he'd ever met who liked the stuff.
3. I also enjoy eating soup stock cubes. YMMV...

djolney · Apr 26, 2005

All this talk has made me hungry: toast with vegemite twice today.

maximus otter · Apr 26, 2005

BOK said:
There's another version of it in South Africa called Bovril. Same thing different label.

Marmite is essentially spent brewer's yeast. It's entirely vegetable-based.

Bovril used to contain 40% beef stock, but - since the BSE hysteria - is now entirely vegetable-based also.

maximus otter

Nordic Viking · Apr 26, 2005

BOK said:
Marmite's good stuff. There's another version of it in South Africa called Bovril. Same thing different label.

Boiling water, mix an egg into it and now you have a delicious beef soup in about 30 secs!

Lekker hey? Do you remember Redro by any chance, might have been before your time?

shaldag · Apr 26, 2005

Oh Lord. I've had marmite, which has little to recommend it. And then I tried vegemite. Note that I work in a laboratory at a major teaching hospital and medical school. I have seen it all (though not tasted it all.) I am not an easy person to gross out. VEGEMITE? Somebody mentioned axle grease, which is probably a major component. However, I am sure that the principal ingredient is the overproduced mucus from infected glands of diseased manatees, combined with secretions from unmentionable glands of komodo dragons, gathered by the light of the moon...........
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