# American 'Vegemite'? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431 "2010-03-05T16:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **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:** [March 5, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/1 "2010-03-05T16:29:28Z")
I didn’t want to hijack the other thread, so here’s this one. I used to work with an older gentleman who grew up back East, who said that when he was a kid he liked a concentrated yeast extract. But I can’t remember the name. It definitely wasn’t Vegemite, Marmite, or Bovril. I’m pretty sure it didn’t have ‘mite’ in the name, which precludes Promite. IIRC, it was an American product called ‘Veg [pronounced ‘veeg’, by him]-something’. Can anyone tell me what it was? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/2 "2010-03-05T17:44:47Z")
Come to think of it, he may have pronounced it vee **j** -something ---
**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:** [March 5, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/3 "2010-03-05T17:55:11Z")
:smack: Never mind, I’ve remembered. [Vegex](http://www.lomalindamarket.com/_product_33339/Vegex). > [@](#): > > Vegex® Brewer’s yeast extract, has been available since 1913. Vegex® is all natural, and has enjoyed the adamant endorsement of those who have used it, for almost a century. Vegex® has also been associated with a healthy lifestyle for just as long. Early advertisements in the 1920’s for Vegex® touted the astonishing health and rapid growth of the “Vegex® Baby”… The Vegex® Baby soared far above the average child her age, as she was taller, heavier, stronger, more intelligent, and extremely well nourished. > > Since Vegex® had such impressive effects on the Vegex® Baby, it was certainly a smart idea to incorporate it into the diets of people of all ages. ---
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/4 "2010-03-05T19:26:06Z")
So whats it taste like **Johnny**? How do you eat it? ---
**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:** [March 5, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/5 "2010-03-05T19:41:32Z")
I haven’t tried it. But from what he was saying it’s similar to Vegemite. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/6 "2010-03-05T23:07:44Z")
Yank vegemite? Crud, now I want some! ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-vegemite/531431/7 "2010-03-06T04:15:00Z")
I hope it tastes more like Marmite! I’ve always wondered what was wrong with this backward country that, alone among the English-speaking nations, it cold not manage to produce a yeast-extract. (Don’t they sell Promite, at least, in Canada? Or am I imagining things?) Now I feel an urgent need to try American yeast extract. Why, I’m feeling almost patriotic!