# There's no fucking Vegemite. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975 "2008-10-08T11:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/61 "2008-10-09T05:19:51Z")
I’ve been down the shop and a brand new jar of the black gloop now sits proudly on my pantry shelf. I’m a ‘happy little Vegemite’ now. Wheeeeeh! Oh, by the way **Prinny** , I always _knew_ there was something weird about you, well apart from being a Q-lander of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/62 "2008-10-09T05:53:54Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I have never had Vegemite. > > The only time I ever found it in a mainstream grocery store here in Canada, it was filed with the _cleaning supplies_, apparently because no-one knew what it was. I know about it mostly from the SDMB. > > Am I missing anything? Vegemite and marmite seem to be the thing that separates North America from the rest of the English speaking world. It seems to be almost unknown here, except by people who have lived in or visited the other Anglophone countries, or otherwise have contacts. And almost nobody here seems to like it. But everyone loves salt. So maybe it’s worth a second look?? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/63 "2008-10-09T06:01:18Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I’ve been down the shop and a brand new jar of the black gloop now sits proudly on my pantry shelf. I’m a ‘happy little Vegemite’ now. Wheeeeeh! Well done. I’ve just made a snack here at work to tide me over before choir practice tonight: crumpets with vegemite. Yummo! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/64 "2008-10-09T06:22:50Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > I’ve just made a snack here at work to tide me over before choir practice tonight: crumpets with vegemite. Yummo! In my early childhood, my family insisted that crumpets were only to be dressed with honey and nothing else. I discovered crumpets w/vegemite in my teens, and what an epiphany THAT was. Happy munching **Cunctator** : just remember to watch the drips spilling down on your shirt. Mmmmmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/65 "2008-10-09T07:55:50Z")
It’s alright. Go get yourself a nice jar of peanut butter and you’ll be better off! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/66 "2008-10-09T08:39:37Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > It’s alright. Go get yourself a nice jar of peanut butter and you’ll be better off! Hah, thus spake the stupid. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/67 "2008-10-09T08:46:04Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Such are the magical powers of substances of Mite? I might just have to try this stuff that I hear tastes like a combination of roadkill and shoe polish. _nods sagely_ Such is the power. Use it wisely. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/68 "2008-10-09T08:51:41Z")
None of you have even begun to live. I have in my cupboard the special edition ‘I Love You’ Marmite, made with - wait for it - _champagne_! Beat that, suckers! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/69 "2008-10-09T11:55:42Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Hah, thus spake the stupid. > > 😃 LOL, I have assimilated amongst you people, I’ve learnt to love crumpets no matter how odd they feel, how to go out in the sun, when and when not to spell labour with a “u”, and the meanings of various odd words like “pong” and “rort” but I cannot eat Vegemite, ugh. Peanut butter for the win. (Although my husband reckons peanut butter and jam is the oddest combo ever, and he once thought that we ate peanut butter and jelly (jello to Americans) because he heard it on Sesame Street.) Enjoy your brewery scrapings. 😉 Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/70 "2008-10-09T12:06:15Z")
> [@Gleena](#): > > LOL, I have assimilated amongst you people, I’ve learnt to love crumpets no matter how odd they feel, how to go out in the sun, when and when not to spell labour with a “u”, and the meanings of various odd words like “pong” and “rort” but I cannot eat Vegemite, ugh. > > Peanut butter for the win. (Although my husband reckons peanut butter and jam is the oddest combo ever, and he once thought that we ate peanut butter and jelly (jello to Americans) because he heard it on Sesame Street.) > > Enjoy your brewery scrapings. 😉 > > Cheers, > G You have just committed blasphemy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/71 "2008-10-09T13:18:11Z")
Comrades, plan Alpha 13 is active. The peanut butter-loving infidels of America will be destroyed, God willing. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/72 "2008-10-09T14:03:30Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > Comrades, plan Alpha 13 is active. The peanut butter-loving infidels of America will be destroyed, God willing. I’d love to comply but since I am now being forced to pay $14.95US for a 400g jar of Vegemite I found myself having to self off the Alpha 13 assets. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/73 "2008-10-10T04:48:49Z")
No Vegemite for me. Mostly because it gives me heartburn these days. ☹ Else I’d still be scoffing it with gusto. First time I encountered it, I’d no idea what it was, and spread it a millimeter thick on buttered toast, about as thick as one’d do Nutella (hey, they were both brown stuff 😃 ), and ate the lot. One bite and I went, “Oooh! Tasty!” Impressed my AUS cousins with that trick, I did. 😃 I think they were hoping for a “GAH NO EVIL” reaction, though… ---
**Author:** ![DellieM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@DellieM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DellieM)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975/74 "2008-10-10T05:37:45Z")
[quote=“Rack-a-Bones, post:54, topic:466975”] OK. To be fair it has been years and years since I tried it. Dellie says it will cure hangovers, so solely in the noble pursuit of Education I will get drunk and have some vegemite tonight. (hey, that rhymes!) See - that’s what this rock needs more of - people like your good self, committed to a cause in the name of science, alcohol and vegemite. They obviously broke the mold after they made you! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-fucking-vegemite/466975.md?page=3)