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OK, sooo… Vegemite is related to Bovril how?
Sounds like trying to ban liquid “soup cubes”. Anybody want some Maggi cubes? If you eat them raw they’ll make hair grow not just on your chest but also on your toenails and your teeth, but one in the tomato sauce is good. And if you lick 'em slow, no hair growth ensues (I determined this experimentally when my age was in single figures).
Tartex definitely contains some of the flavor components, but Vegemite is about 1,000 times stronger.
Vegemite is a foul abomination, a blight upon breakfast foods throughout the land.
Yea, let us give thanks for the existence of Marmite, the One True Spread, Enhancer Of Bakery Products And Toasted Bread, Ender Of The Night-Time Fast, Harbinger Of The New Day, Praise Be Unto It.
(In English, Marmite is better than Vegemite and anyone who disagrees is a Gay Communist Heathen) 
The trick to eating Mar/Vegemite involves putting spreading some margarine or butter (Gold in colour, and slippery to the touch!) onto some toast, letting the margarine/butter melt into the toast, then spreading the Mar/Vegemite on top of that. Delicious.
By all means. It’s the yeast I can do!
I tried Marmite about twenty years ago, and found it just like Vegemite. Then last year, there was an online Marmite vs Vegemite debate, so I thought I’d try it again. I tried to be impartial too. I found it too sweet. That said, it’s quite edible, and I’d use it if Vegemite wasn’t available. Promite is the real abomination.
Agreed. In fact, any “-mite” that isn’t Marmite or Vegemite is an affront before all that is good and right… this includes Promite, Mightymite, and all those other yeast-based spreads you find at Aldi, The Warehouse, Crazy Clarks, and The Reject Shop.
As others have said, I think it’s one of those things you really need to have grown up with to appreciate. Just as I think a lot of people in the US can’t possibly grasp how a pie could have- gasp- meat in it, most people in Australia and NZ can’t possibly grasp how you could have a pie that didn’t have meat in it. Marmite and Vegemite are the same thing- if you grew up with them, then they’re the Greatest And Best Thing In The World, and if you didn’t grow up with them, then they’re weird, inedible, and slightly suspect.
Funny how this thread is throwing up US-based (Texan, in fact) advertisements for jars of Vegemite “big and small”.
I think you mean Violet Crumbles.
The last time I saw Marmite in Toronto, it was in the cleaning-supplies section.
I guess no-one knew what it was.
While fruit/dessert pies are definitely very American (as in, “as American as apple…”), there is no shortage of meat-based pies there, either. I doubt you could find a grocery store worthy of the name that did not have meat pies in the frozen food section, and chicken pot pie is a diner staple in many parts of the country.
Of course, no meat pie compares to the wonderful tortierre, that most admirable of Quebecois contributions to Canadian cuisine. Although Jamaican patties are a close second. 
That’s being remarkably generous. I shot a movie once starring Tim Roth, the lovely Brit actor. I walked by while he was eating some bread slathered with what can charitably be described as isomerized feces. He derided my poorly educated American palate and begged me to try some.
Being the manlC man I am/was, and not wanting Tim ( who is in fact a truly kind and fun fellow ) to get the better of me, I took the proferred slice.
And took a big bite.
And had to consciously suppress my gag reflex.
The word “vomitacious” exists solely because of Marmite and Vegemite. Folic Acid? Naw. The Ipecac Syrup Combine had the FDA ban it.
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A couple things.
I have my Vegemite in the fridge. Does it need refrigerated?
Also, I don’t understand all this talk of having 5 gallon buckets of the stuff in your pantry. It has even been stated that you only use a little bit on your toast. Do Aussies eat toast pretty much every morning then? Because I might have toast once a month or so and it will take me a year to finish off a 4oz jar.
I want to point out from recent experience that Kiwi Marmite is not proper Marmite. It is a disgusting parody; an abomination unto the Lord of Yeast. Took me weeks to get the disgusting taste out of my mouth. Kiwi bastards.
I personally don’t think so. It might depend on the climate I suppose, but we had a jar in our non-a/c apartment in Hong Kong for a year and it lasted fine. It’s so salty that it just doesn’t go off, while refrigerating it makes it harder to spread really thin.
I have an opened jar of Vegemite with a use-by date of 2004, which has been sitting in a kitchen cupboard unrefrigerated for more than 2 years – possibly 6 or 7 years. (It’s like an insurance policy, in case I get a craving forv the stuff, but I don’t actrually eat it all that often).
Last night, on reading this thread, I spread some on some crackers and ate them. I am still alive, and not even suffering any dangerous symptoms of respiratory tract distress. No, you don’t need to refrigerate it.
When in Australia, I usually put it on brands of crackers than are not available in the US, such as Vita-Weat and Jatz. So you don’t need to eat it on toast. (It can also be eaten on untoasted bread).
Me too. I’ve always been curious about it, but now that it’s banned I feel I must have it.
What’s so bad about folic acid/folate? A quick Google indicates it’s an essential B vitamin.
My jar of Marmite is from NZ, a gift from my Kiwi cousin-in-law, and I absolutely love the stuff. But I don’t have a very “*”-mite educated palate and I’m not a big fan of Vegemite, so maybe my tastebuds are backwards.
Toast smeared with Marmite, with a thin slice of extra-sharp cheddar just slightly melted on top is the best breakfast in the world.
Yes. I had the extreme pleasure of being in Australia in the mid-1980s, and my Aussie friends decided one night that I needed to taste Vegemite. So they made me a sandwich.
Hilarity then ensued at my response. I think, when I spat it out, that I managed to hit the wall on the other side of the room.