# I'm eating Vegemite.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2000, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402 "2000-09-16T14:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402/41 "2000-09-19T02:25:09Z")

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And why did I eat peas as a young kid but they make me gag now? 😉  
And for the record I’ve eaten wichity grubs several times too (several aborginal tribes eat them traditionally). I’ll stick to vegimite though.

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**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:** [September 19, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402/42 "2000-09-19T02:54:02Z")

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I’ve had Vegemite once. It was spread thin on a cracker or bit of bread, and it was still very noticeably salty. I don’t recall if there was margarine with it. It has a yeasty, beery quality, and it seemed like it fit well with a culture where the average person drinks three beers a day. None of this seemed to make it as inedible, in my mind, as, say, curry.

Hey, I just had a grilled sandwich of the last couple slices of “liver cheese” I was willing to eat before I threw it out–it was tasting a mite moldy. And I’ve been known to eat Romano cheese that’s been sitting in the fridge for six months. I guess I can stand a little yeast.

Beer, on the other hand, doesn’t appeal to me. But then, I never have gotten used to alcohol on my lips. bleh.

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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402/43 "2000-09-19T13:05:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Billdo \*  
> … I loved the stuff when I was in Australia two years ago, and had used up the supply that I had brought back.

You should have told me! The jar you brought me from Australia is still moldering, barely touched, in the back of my fridge. I would have been more than happy to give it up.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402/44 "2000-09-20T18:09:42Z")

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I can’t verify this, but I’ve heard that vegimite is the gunk left over on the bottom of beer barrels after the beer had been drained out.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-vegemite/33402/45 "2000-09-20T18:20:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by dpr \*  
> Hangover cure? Yes some swear by it but rarely Australians because we also have something called Baroccas which are the best hangover cures known to man.

**Berocca** is a soluble vitamin B supplement. You can get it in the UK too. My (Australian) SO tells me that it’s not as vitamin B rich as Vegemite, though.

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