Ummm…Whats Vegimite? The only exposure ive had to it is from the line from a Men At Work song “And he handed me a vegimite…sand-wich”
From what Ive read of these posts it seems like vegimite is a cross between guacamole(sp), fish eggs (sorry, total brain fart here, whats the ritsy name for fish eggs???), and industrial sealant…where can I get some? I wanna try it…
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What’s vegemite.
It’s yeast extract. High in protien and vitamin B.
It tastes kind of yeasty salty yummy.
It looks like axle grease - thick, black and smooth.
You can buy it in any supermarket in Australia, don’t know where in the US, except that you can. (My parents lived in NH for a year and bought a case while they were over there).
For more info see this site.
OMG, I’m having flashbacks now to my primary school days! Lunchtime as the luncheon paper is unwrapped to reveal …
Yes, they were delicious and so tradeable …
I live next to a brewery (Yay! But…) every now and then a huge articulated Marmite tanker goes through the gates to fill itself with the yeasty residue.
I live in fear of some kind of accident: a huge slick of black slurry gushing over the roads, toxic waste control people closing off the streets for miles around, hundreds of dead birds covered in a black slime that makes crude oil look like a gentle facial wash, and me never being able to go near my flat again.
But what’s even more perplexing is the sign on the back of the Marmite truck: “For food use only”.
Hijack:
I ribbed some European friends of mine for liking marmite, which undoubtedly is the most disgusting food substance known to man. They replied that Europeans felt the same way about Americans liking peanut butter.
I think she must love you very much.
Though if she loved you more she’d have given you a small jar of Marmite, because, as the Good Book* says:
Marmite on peanut butter on toast is rather good. Or peanut butter on marmite on toast, so long as the toast is on the bottom.
Best laugh I’ve had in a long while I got from watching some American friends encountering Twiglets for the first time. Twiglets, for those who don’t know them, are little knobbly wholewheat breadsticks coated with a very light rendering of a yeast-extract based substance. To American tastebuds, they apparently resemble “some kind of punishment”.
I’m a Marmite fan myself; I’m not going to make any claims about it being superior to Vegemite (which I have tried); it’s a personal preference and nobody should assume that their personal preferences are any kind of objective measure.
I like to toast wholemeal or rye bread, then let it cool completely in a toast rack (so that it does not go soggy with its own steam), then generously apply REAL butter and a nice smear of Marmite on the top. It’s nice on Ryvita too (spreading the toppings on the holey side, of course).
Does anybody here LIKE crispy chicken skin (and/or those little sticky bits of concentrated chicken stock from the roasting tin) and NOT LIKE yeast extract products? - they are very similar flavours, to my palate.
Probably for the same reason that fish trucks say “FISH”.
You used the whole top layer? On one piece of toast? No wonder you didn’t like it! I use maybe a quarter of a teaspoon of vegemite on a piece of toast, with lots of butter. A friend of mine used to eat it spread thick like peanut butter, and I’ll happily agree that vegegmite in those kinds of quantities is truly foul.
However, if you really want to get rid of the stuff, dogs flip for it (both of mine do, as well as every other dog I’ve tried it on). My mother once made vegemite and cheese cookies for my dogs as special treats, and they thought they were in puppy heaven 
Strange and beautiful concoctions:
Has anyone ever heard of a sandwich of peanut butter and avacado?
sound creepy?
a chef-friend from Trinidad introduced it to me once, and it was mighty interesting.
And to an American, it was a tad less inflammatory than vegemite.
Speaking of Europeans, Peanut Butter, and wierd sandwich combinations, on a message board I regularly post on, their is a British woman who swears by peanut butter and pickled onion sandwiches. The odd thing is a few of the other regulars have tried it and like it, even one of the other Americans. Another Brit and I have formed a pact to never try it. Even if the entire rest of the board decides to, we will not give in!
With Jam/Jelly/Preserves, honey, bananas, marshmallow fluff, and chocolate sauce, what more does one need to put with one’s peanut butter?
But then again, I have heard of people eating peanut butter and ketchup…
Mmmm. Peanut butter and honey. Specifically, crunchy Peter Pan peanut butter and my grandfather’s honey on two thick slices of homemade maple-wheat bread. That there’s some energy food!
Vegemite. I think my friend’s Aussie mum mentioned it at some point, and how difficult it was to find in any quantity. Ah yes, it was the stuff that sent me reeling with just a whiff from a nearly empty 4-ounce jar. But I should try it at some point. After all, I can think of a couple of delicious dishes that don’t smell all that appetizing at first.
Thanks for the update gophergod72, I was wondering whatever happened with you and the Vegemite. Pity you didn’t like it. My youngest lad (9 months) has just started having some rusks to chew on. A little smear of the black stuff never goes astray in early indoctrination 
Vegemite is the reason Aussies can drink all that beer day after day.
Buying bread from a man in Brazil
He was six-foot-four, and full of muscle.
I said do you speak-a my language
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich!
[sub]After reading this thread, I spent all day trying to remember that song… now it’s out of my head and in yours :)[/sub]
NardoPolo: You’re welcome…
Hoopy Frood: This is WAY OT but at least Clan of the Cave Bear has that EXTREEMLY HOT Baywatch/Chaz in Charge girl in it when she was much younger, much hotter, and much more scantily clad. (What can I say, I saw that movie for the first time during a really hard adolesence when I was about the age that she made that movie…) Or am I thinking of a different movie?
Syzygy: Everyone I know thinks im REALLY weird b/c I love PB and Honey sandwiches…Nice to know other people like it…
Speaking of drinking, has anyone ever noticed that very strong tasting foods taste wonderful when you’re drunk, but disgusting all other times? I’ve come to this conclusion by observing my dad, my friends and through personal experience. My fav drunken foods are: Buttermilk, Caviar on Triscuits, that stinky smelling cheese (forgot the name) on triscuits, and strong swiss cheese on trisuits.
Im going to perform an experiment: Get really drunk and see if Vegimite is the Ambrosia of drunken foods…Thats IF I ever find some Vegimite…I checked in the supermarket by the Spam and deviled ham spread, but it wasnt there…anyone have any idea where it would be?
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Buying bread from a man in Brussels - not Brazil (rhymes, you see).
Yo,
This is OT sorry…I heard that that part of the song as well as the part like ‘with a slack jaw and not much to say’ was about drugs…
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Ah, is there no end to the collective wisdom of the Straight Dope? Many thanks.