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Vegemite on crumpets with lashings of butter, slobber slobber.


Is the meat roasted or boiled, and are the Spuds roasted or mashed?
And how does one coax a Polar Bear into the kitchen? A packet of Polar Mints?.

Hard to imagine really.

And I am one (Australian that is.)

it would have to be barbecued pale rider.

Captain. I have Marmite: Please come round for Marmite Sandwiches!

Oh God! Not Marmite, I was just required by a dear English friend to try some. When I looked up the history I understood why they ate this. During WWI the Brits were starving and malnourished so this algae product was marketed as a nutritional aid. I would rather..

They must have been permanently shellshocked or it was one hell of a marketing campaign to have that barely swallowable schmootz to remain on the store shelves or otherwise accessible any longer than it really needed to be.

Well, we must have pretty strange taste buds, as many of us do actually like the stuff!

It is not a million miles away from Vegemite, so I think (in the face of a common enemy ) the Aussies and us have to stand together on this.

We'll see if we can't get talks underway. Perhaps The Capn's favourite organisation, the UN, could facilitate this

how and why people actually began to like this stuff.....reminds me of a joke that I read somewhere

Who was the first guy to milk a cow and WTF was he thinking? Can you imagine? you walk upto a cow and start squeezing the udders or teats or whatever! First time evah!

Some pervert.

So after a google search I discovered both marmite and vegemite are available in Canada sometimes or always, so I threw it on the boss's grocery list. (Feminists: Just a note .. I did the shopping for 25 + years, but with empty nest syndrome taking over, Boss decided to get out more, so now she does it.)

Hopefully she can find either, as the net stuff said there is not much difference. (This'll get the agrgument started all over) Then I can join the discussion with some real knowledge, the experiential kind. Polar bear barbecuing aside, perhaps it will add to my B12 chronic shortage from being a lacto-veg.

This is Alberta, as redneck or more as Texas. I've seen people at a real spread of healthy food at a family reunion walk by all the veggies and literally stack their huge plate with nothing at all except the barbecued porky that just spent its corpse days going round and round on a huge spit. How the hell did I become a white Hindu.

Marmite is a yeast product not pond scum which is algebra as all mathematicians know.

UN!!

Drown them in marmite


(except those on indiamike, of course )

Marmite! I'll never forget my first visit to England, having breakfast with my English friend, putting some Marmite on my toast, thinking it was something similar to Nutella, expecting a sweet taste, having the first bit:

Oh my God, what's that? One of the most horrible things I've ever tried in my life!!!

Marmite and cucumber sandwiches - Yummmmm!

Marmite and Promite are very Similar, but Vegemite is just different somehow.
We get all three in Oz, and one called Aussiemite, just to confuse us.

Yeast extract eaters of the world UNITE.!!!!!!

So Marmite, Twiglets and Vegimite, would appear to be inferior to Tapenade in producing boorish tourists.

But continuing a 'nostalgia' trip, does anyone remember something that sounded like Vicon spread, which was suitable for Vegans and was said to be similar to both Vegimite and Marmite but without the 'animal' connections. Or is this just some drug hazed fragment of false memory from about 40 years ago.

I also remember combining marmite, peanut butter cayenne pepper and several other vivid tastes to produce out of one's box late night snacks ... perhaps I was trying to blow my drug addled mind with raw sensation as well as Captain Beefheart ... or maybe I was trying to raise the bar for those wanting to pose as having rejecting ordered patterns of consumption. Imperialists and Soviet revisionists (or Rhodes scholars) certainly flinched or fled at the mere sight of my concoctions.

Just remembered another ingredient Pan-Yan pickle, but I just can't remember how I ever combined green (lime) marmalade with Shiphams fish paste, sandwich spread or potted beef ... but marmite was the foundation for cuisine gross.

The things we British could like 'east of calais/suez where there ain't no ten commandments', we must have amused the Indian people who tried to make a few bob by catering for the non posh and culturally disoriented who drifted along to India in the wake of our Empire building betters who were, as usual, shocked by our antics. No banana pancakes in those days ....

Perhaps those sandwiches to revive the totally stoned were a precursor for some of the more exciting emerging cuisines at the cutting edge of modern gastronomy ... Marmite certainly has its uses in producing those 'unusual' taste sensations ... so could it be pacific rim cutting edge culinary innovation allow Vegimite to contribute 'experimental' dishes, suggestions would be appreciated.

'x'imite users of the world unite, you have nothing to loose but your tastebuds and perhaps the contents of your stomach.