# $95 for a jar of Vegemite **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243 "2003-08-10T19:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/1 "2003-08-10T19:36:14Z")
I rode down to the English shop to replenish my Vegemite, as there’s barely enough to scrape in the jar I have. But the shop was closed. It wouldn’t open for another 45 minutes. [Ye Olde King’s Head](http://www.yeoldekingshead.com/) is right next door, and I couldn’t resist. After being on the Atkins diet for a month, I _had_ to get the English breakfast. The English back bacon was okay for me to eat. The eggs? No problem. The banger? Well, it _did_ have bread crumbs in it. Cheating a bit there. The grilled tomato slices were probably okay, not being _packed_ with carbs. But the baked beans probably blew my carb allotment for the whole day. And then there were the two slices of fried toast! Well, if you’re going to cheat, cheat big! As long as I was there, I may as well get a black YOKH T-shirt to go along with my grey one. The shop opened, and I couldn’t resist the tea. Four tins of it – Ceylon, Darjeeling, English Breakfast and Earl Grey. I thought I might have damaged my teapot, so I got another one. I’ll take my old one to work. (I wonder if it’s microwave-safe?) And what’s this in the fridge? Cheshire and Caerphilly cheeses! Yum. ka-ching. I did get my jar of Vegemite though. ---
**Author:** ![gothelen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@gothelen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gothelen)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/2 "2003-08-10T19:48:04Z")
Forgive me for being picky, (I don’t post often so this may seem snarky), but Vegemite is Australian, how come they sell it in a British shop. Admitedly they do have Marmite too but I don’t get why the Vegemite. I understand that Australians live in the US but why is it in a British food stuffs type shop. Please don’t flame me? gothelen ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/3 "2003-08-10T19:53:17Z")
They did carry Marmite (in bigger jars, too), but Vegemite is better. I remember when Olivia Newton-John had a chain of Australian stores – Koala Blue, I think they were called. I never went to one. But Australian stores seem not to have caught on here. We do have a large English ex-pat community, though, and I think that’s why English shops are so popular. They must stock the Vegemite because of all of the Australian visitors. And I assume Brits like Vegemite as well. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/4 "2003-08-10T20:12:07Z")
Just looked up Koala Blue in google. Clothing store. No wonder I never went. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/5 "2003-08-10T20:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*I did get my jar of Vegemite though. \*\* Well, that’s the most important thing. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/6 "2003-08-10T20:54:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*Clothing store. No wonder I never went. \*\* Well, that cues up some disturbing mental pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/7 "2003-08-10T20:58:49Z")
**lel** : Unfortunately I’m not allowed white bread to spread it on, not English muffins which are my preferred substratum. Well, at least I can put it on my omelettes. And I have some low-carb tortillas and some low-carb brown bread. ---
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/8 "2003-08-10T21:46:56Z")
What is vegemite? My only expeience is the reference to said material from a Men at Work song. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/9 "2003-08-10T22:47:50Z")
[All about vegemite](http://www.vegemite.com.au/)! Ah, poor **Johnny L.A.**! No bread for one’s vegemite – the horror! What does it taste like on omelettes? My preferred place to spread it is on wheat bread anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/10 "2003-08-10T23:21:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*They did carry Marmite (in bigger jars, too), but Vegemite is better. \*\* Heresy ! Burn him, burn him ! 😉 I’m a Marmite fan myself, but if trapped in the US, I would make do with Vegemite, rather than be denied that black yeasty goodness completely. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/11 "2003-08-11T00:06:06Z")
**lel** : It’s good on omelettes. Especially if you have some salsa as well. And salsa and Vegemite on a breakfast burrito is great! **Goo** : No worries. We have Vegemite _and_ Marmite in the British shops. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/12 "2003-08-11T00:11:25Z")
In the food store next to Ryerson University in Toronto, they sell Marmite in the… _cleaning supplies_ section. I suspect nobody there knows what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/13 "2003-08-11T00:43:29Z")
Marmite and Vegemite BOTH taste like crap. It’s the essense of evil, I tell you, EVIL! ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_B.Phart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Capt\_B.Phart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_B.Phart)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/14 "2003-08-11T00:48:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > \*\*they sell Marmite in the… _cleaning supplies_ section. \*\* EEK - imagine someone trying to **clean** something with it - Jeez:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/15 "2003-08-11T01:27:42Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s the essense of evil, I tell you, EVIL! No, it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/16 "2003-08-11T01:48:34Z")
**Johnny** , I gotta say, that there have been a few times recently that I preferred a dab of marmite over vegemite. Now I’m a guy who went thru a 1 kilo tub of Vegemite in under a year, and I’m still serving it up to all and sundry. Why, just today, I introduced my nephew and his friend to it, on english muffins with butter, aged cheddar, somersausage and onions. But I’m not sharing my marmite. I use it when simplicity is best, such as _just_ muffin and butter and marmite. And I’d _never_ use it by the double tablespoon, in my soups or stews or sauces, like I do my vegemite. So what do you think it means? I’m not much of an anglophile, so I don’t think I’m getting an attitude of snobbery. I see it more as a difference between using a quality extra-virgin olive oil for both cooking, and dipping breadstuffs versus using the extra-fancy extra-virgin olive oil for the pure taste treats. Or am I just fooling myself? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/17 "2003-08-11T01:54:45Z")
You’re the doctor! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/18 "2003-08-11T02:40:58Z")
When I first started coming to this board, I remember distinctly the first thread I ever read. It was a thread about Vegemite and Marmite. I swear I’ll never forget that thread, people going back and forth about it and I still have no idea what either of them are (I’m guessing some kind of spread or jelly). ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/19 "2003-08-11T03:04:32Z")
**flood** , in the interest of fighting ignorance, let me answer your question for you. Vegemite/Marmite is the devil’s diarrhaea. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243/20 "2003-08-11T03:15:32Z")
OH MY SWEET FREAKIN HECK! I read the subject as "$95 for a bottle of **VASELINE!**" I was thinkin Must be one HELL of a party ole **Johnny L.A.** is planning to throw… wonder how I can wrangle an invite?"😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/95-for-a-jar-of-vegemite/194243.md?page=2)