To those of you in the know, can you give me a comparison of Marmite and Vegemite. I have tried vegemite and while I never did acquire a taste for it just spread on toast I found it gave a lovely flavor to stew, soup, spaghetti etc. I did manage to use my entire jar of it in just a few months.
Just wondering how to compare the two. Is Marmite sweeter? saltier? beefier?
Definitely very much a comfort food for me. I love the stuff. I can see why people might not like it (hey, I don’t like peanut butter), but the extreme reactions I find a bit puzzling. It’s got a strong flavour, sure. But it’s just a sandwich spread, when all is said and done.
The good old Vegemite sandwich is great. Actually an open sandwich (bread ‘n’ Vegemite) is better. Teach your kids to like the stuff - ain’t nothing wrong with supermarket white sliced boring bread, margarine, and Vegemite.
Vegemite on toast is probably where it’s really at. Getting up into a blissed-out state there. English muffins are marvellous with it as well, as are crumpets (though I remember getting blank US stares last time I tried to describe an Australian crumpet on these boards - I don’t think you guys have them). They are round, pale things the diameter of a CD, about three quaters of an inch thick, and they have small holes all over the top (which just happen to hold melty butter and Vegemite perfectly). They are heavy, slightly moist, and only half-cooked when you buy them. Revolting in that state, they are heaven when toasted.
Vegemite and lettuce sandwiches are lovely.
It’s great on a single slice of thick poppyseed loaf as well.
An unusual, but quite tasty, snack is to butter and put Vegemite on a semi-sweet biscuit (like an Arrowroot). The sweet/Vegemite thing actually works for some reason. I used to like this as a kid.
I can’t say I’ve even done much actual cooking with it though.
Go gentle with it though. I think much of the North Anmerican revulsion is due to folks piling it on like peanut butter. Don’t do that until you become a hard case. you should be able to see the butter coming through here and there when you spread it. One millimetre is fine for newbies.
I tried Vegemite while in Australia. I think it might make a good substitute for Syrup of Ipecac.
::Shrug:: I wanted to see what it tasted like. I didn’t put that much thought into it.
I appreciate all the responses. I’m going to start slow with toast and cheese, then maybe try a little bit in some gravy or spaghetti sauce.
That was a childhood staple for me too.
Nope, never heard of Vegemire and nuts on a sandwich. Not terribly sure I’m keen on the idea.
Perhaps I just had odd tastes as a child. I also loved Milo sandwiches.
I’ve never heard of that before, but I’m going to try it as soon as I get home. I love my Milo.
I reckon a glass of orange juice to go with my Vegemite on toast is the perfect breakfast. Especially if I’ve been drinking the night before, so you get a hit of vitamins B and C.
Nope. Per the story linked above by Mr. yax, I went with a scrapingly thin layer for my first time out, and it still tasted like butthole. Must be something you get used to in youth.
It is true that many Aussie parents put a little Vegemite on rusks for teething babies to have a nibble at. So yeah, we start young.
I have never had butthole on toast though. 
It’s a North American delicacy…surprised you’ve never had it.
You might like it though, I’ve heard it tastes like Vegemite. 
Touché.
Ehh. I’ve tried lips&butthole casserole, and it’s no great shakes, I’m afraid.
An Australian friend just told me Vegemite is a great hangover remedy because it’s so rich in vitamin B. He said you have to lightly smear it onto your gums for that to work. Anyone else ever hear of that? He loves the stuff, and told me it made his mouth water just typing about it, because he’s been eating vegemite since he was 6 months old.
Cripes. I might prefer the hangover.
I’m a latecomer to Vegemite, only tasting it for the first time in 1985 or so.
It’s good in breakfast burritos. A friend at work liked it on his Thai BBQ chicken. (I liked that as well.)
One of the guys I worked with had been a missionary in Papua New Guinnea. He said he had a friend there who would carry a jar of Vegemite on a string, and dip is finger into it for a taste and a boost of energy whilst trekking through the jungle. As for my co-worker, he habitually ate an English muffin with marge and Vegemite, half a papaya, and a cuppa tea for breakfast every morning. When he returned to the States he found that his blood pressure, which had been a little high, had dropped dramatically and was now well within the normal range.
Is “Vegemire” a pun, a typo, or a Freudian slip?
Try it with some oral sex.
Cats love vegemite- use it to enhance your pets food (if you have a cat). It also flavours gravy nicely.
Typo. Typo,typo,typo. Guys, ya gotta believe me, for the love of Og!!! Guys?