# I just ordered 5.5 lbs of vegemite **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194 "2004-04-27T01:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/41 "2004-04-27T14:38:26Z")
> [@cabdude](#): > > 5.5 lbs sounds like an odd quantity? That converts to about 2.5 kg, which probably isn’t as odd I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/42 "2004-04-27T14:50:19Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > That converts to about 2.5 kg, which probably isn’t as odd I suspect. I realise that - it seems odd to me because you’d never see it sold in Oz in anything other than metric measures. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/43 "2004-04-27T14:54:11Z")
Ah, right. Probably either **QtM** is converting it to pounds for the benefit of the metric-confused Americans, or the stuff that’s allowed for export into the US has a parenthetical notation about the pounds conversion on the label. Hmm. Or maybe he’s found a black-market source which produces this in a secret warehouse in the US… ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/44 "2004-04-27T15:12:58Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Ah, right. Probably either **QtM** is converting it to pounds for the benefit of the metric-confused Americans, or the stuff that’s allowed for export into the US has a parenthetical notation about the pounds conversion on the label. > > Hmm. Or maybe he’s found a black-market source which produces this in a secret warehouse in the US… Yeah - that’s what I was getting at. The idea that some US Government official has approved the importation of bulk vegemite after objecting to the labelling WITHOUT objecting to the contents make me chuckle. Asking around the office no one has even seen a container of vegemite that big. Opinion is that you’d need to order it special from Kraft and either have a bulk vegemite purchasing permit or show reasonable cause for acquiring what appears to be several years supply of vegemite. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/45 "2004-04-27T16:05:06Z")
[http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/images/veg2-5.jpg](http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/images/veg2-5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/46 "2004-04-27T16:14:28Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > My fave: Toasted english muffin, slathered with butter and vegemite, then topped with 5 year old cheddar and a sprinke of onion powder, then broiled briefly. This summer, when you can get garden-fresh tomatoes, try a VLT (Vegemite, Lettuce and Tomato, of course) sandwich on toast. Just thinkin’ about it gets me all drooly. ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/47 "2004-04-27T16:25:24Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > [http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/images/veg2-5.jpg](http://www.aussiefavourites.com.au/images/veg2-5.jpg) Hells bells, you could paint a house with that. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/48 "2004-04-27T17:45:50Z")
Does importing that much vegemite violate the USA Patriot Act? I wonder what Customs does when they hand inspect it upon entry? BTW, I still have two remaining (standard size) jars of vegemite when I left Oz four years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/49 "2004-04-27T19:46:07Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Does importing that much vegemite violate the USA Patriot Act? No, but you run the risk of having your house designated as a Superfund site. > [@astro](#): > > Please describe the taste of vegimite in detail to the uninitiated (ie me). I’ve told my “honeymooning in Fiji” story before, which includes the once-and-only-once adventure in this new flavor, but in short, to me, the taste of vegemite was akin to performing cunnilingus on a somewhat uncooperative Rottweiler. Er, I assume. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/50 "2004-04-27T21:00:18Z")
Hm, i love vegemite…but then again I am wierd=) As to what it tastes like…my best way to describe it is to take plain homemade beed stew. Then take a can of dinty moore beeef stew, or some other commercial beef soupish product. taste them both. The commercial product will have a sort of yeasty/smokey flavor. That is the hydrolyzed yeast they add to it…in other words, vegemite=) i have a goddaughter who refused to eat homemade soup or stew because she did not get the hydrolized yeasty flavor present in commercial products, but she would eat mine because i use a dab of vegemite to put in the yeasty flavor [well, actually the hydrolized yeast acts sort of like MSG without the headaches…] Now if I could only get musk sticks and musk lifesavers, and cappuccino tim tams here=\ ---
**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:** [April 28, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/51 "2004-04-28T00:56:46Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Sheesh, **Qadgop** , I make probably a cup or so of that stuff every month; you should have told me you were running low. I was up in that (_cough_) bustling metropolis just to your north this past weekend. > > Well, mind you, it’s in the pre-Vegemite state - brewer’s yeast proper, that is - but I suspect someone could whip up some homemade (homebrewed?) version of the real thing with it. Heh. Vegemite is yeast _extract_. You ever try to extract anything from yeast? It ain’t like milking a cow, my little klompendanser! Hey! Vegemite on worstebroodjes! I bet dat’s goooooood! ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/52 "2004-04-28T01:52:25Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > … **Qadgop the Mercotan** : I’ve had Vegemite broth, and I’ve used Vegemite as a condiment on breakfast burritos and Thai BBQ chicken. Of course, I use it as a spread. But I’d really like to get some of your recipes. > > How about starting a Vegemite Recipes thread in Café Society? 🙂 I’d love to second this suggeston. I like both Vegemite and Marmite but am at somewhat of a loss as how to use them in cookery. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/53 "2004-04-28T02:08:55Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > I’d love to second this suggeston. > I like both Vegemite and Marmite but am at somewhat of a loss as how to use them in cookery. So Be It! [cooking with vegemite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=253380) ---
**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:** [May 2, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/54 "2004-05-02T01:24:17Z")
I had the foresight to buy a small stock of Vegemite before I left L.A., but I didn’t not realise how difficult it would be to find a place in Bellingham that sells this yummy treat. I’m more than half-way through my last jar. Fortunately, [simplyoz.com](http://simplyoz.com) is right down in Rainier. I’ll have my own 2.5kg pail of Vegemite by Tuesday or Wednesday. 🙂 \<=== Me, as a happy little Vegemite! ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/55 "2004-05-02T04:06:42Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > The Mercotan family has been suffering a drought of vegemite lately. Most of my usual retail sources in the area have dried up completely. Noone’s got the stuff. I scraped the last bits out of the last jar with a tupperware spatula weeks and weeks ago. It’s been rough. > > Today I went to my final source: Leroy’s Market down in the 'hood. I poked around amidst the quiche, norwegian goat cheese, chitterlings, and honey pot ants. _They_ didn’t have it! “Not much call for it, Squire” was all the clerk behind the counter would say. I was devastated. > > Fortunately they had some Marmite (English, not Australian, thank the gods!) so I bought the last of their stock. But I knew this could not continue! My recipes have been without that mystic ingredient for too long now! Marmite is a fine substitute for muffins and bagels et. al. but when you’re cooking up a great big pot of Qadgop’s 16 bean soup with turkey sausage, chicken parts, 47 cloves of garlic with the Beano already added, there is no substitute for 2 tablespoons of vegemite! > > So I broke down and contacted my sources on the shadier side of the web. Soon, in an anonymous package delivered to my doorstep, I should have the jumbo tub of vegemite!! > > My only concern: We live in a small community where everyone is pretty well known. If they deliver it during regular work hours, they just might drop it off at Mrs. Mercotan’s office at the local high school since they know we won’t be home (the mail carrier is my first cousin). I fear what might happen if she’s caught with vegemite on school grounds! Great balls of fire! I’ve got to assume you would have salivated at the odor of fermenting leftovers coming from the Pennick and Ford plant on the south side of Cedar Rapids, IA in the 1950’s. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/56 "2004-05-04T02:26:43Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > Great balls of fire! I’ve got to assume you would have salivated at the odor of fermenting leftovers coming from the Pennick and Ford plant on the south side of Cedar Rapids, IA in the 1950’s. Not really. It’s the end-product, not the process, which is most important here. BTW, the vegemite came today! 2 and a half kilos of salty, gooey, brown goodness! Who needs peanut butter? Who needs beef boullion? Who needs edible body paint? I’ve got my vegemite! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194/57 "2004-05-04T02:37:06Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Who needs edible body paint? I’ve got my vegemite! :eek: I try to be a tolerant person, but… that’s just **sick**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-ordered-5-5-lbs-of-vegemite/242194.md?page=2)