Vegemite: banned in the U.S.A.

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20623973-2,00.html

The accompanying picture is worth it alone.

It goes without saying at this point, but this is the stupidest ban ever.

But this will end up being the thing that will turn Americans on to Vegemite, since it's now illegal.

I had vegemite on toast earlier this year in Melbourne during breakfast across the hostel. Quite a bit of it. It's just brewed soy sauce paste, basically. Shrug.

Ban fucking Big Macs first.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

[Luther Campbell pic links encouraged]

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, aren't people SUPPOSED to eat folic acid?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but PROPERLY.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Have a vegemite koala taco, MATE"

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

TOO RIGHT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

i heard about this. its kind of alarming. im tempted to hit 'everything australian' and buy up their supply.

Quite a bit of it.

this is the mistake all non-australians make. it isnt peanut butter.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Folic acid only counts if you get it from Trix or Lucky Charms.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - But I didn't regret it!

I had a Vegemite cheese roll earlier that weekend, and I really liked it!

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

can we please stop posting stories about how the town I live in is populated by 100% knuckle-dragging mouth breathers, for like a day or two

― SOME LOW END BRO (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i had vegemite and cheese sandwiches every day throughout primary school. they were great except for when my mom forgot to take the plastic off the cheese.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Vegemite tastes good with peanut butter. It's like a whole new food.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

you think everything with peanut butter is good

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait for my next visit back from Vancouver

"You have any RAW VEGEMITE WITH YOU?"

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I like to chew up some vegemite and spread the resulting paste between two intact slabs of vegemite.

(This only works if you imagine a liverwurst-analogue filled with vegemite.)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

"I mean FUCKIN RAW YEAST. YEAST THAT'S YELLIN SEXUAL THINGS ACROSS THE PLATE FROM YOU. REALLY FUCKIN RAW VEGEMITES"

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

worms

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bareback vegemite.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeast filled vegemates #7

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

In every vegemite ever

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sbarro: legal
Vegemite: illegal

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHGGGGH!!

I'll be having a drink with Tom commiserating in the midst of the knuckle draggers.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Vulva puppets: legal

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I guess they're probably outlawing it on the premise that someone could somehow overdose on folic acid, but considering all of the legitimately unhealthy food out there this seems pretty stupid.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

To the Americans who've never tasted vegimate: your gov't just did you a big favour!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Folic acid comes in vitamins now though so I think they're just making things up at this point.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

its in orange juice, no? maybe thats an added ingredient.

i know this: dont try to take folic acid away from a pregnant woman.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

can we please stop posting stories about how the town I live in is populated by 100% knuckle-dragging mouth breathers, for like a day or two

hahaha can't, it's too fun. I'm protected by living on the other coast from these people, so it'll be a while before they infect out here.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

surely it's more um natural to get one's folic acid from yeast/brewing by-product than a tablet though? am i mising something about folic acid here? it's a good thing right? or do they giv eit to pregnant ladies cos they hate them? look, now i'm going to have to google "sources of folic acid" to find out WHAT ELSE those crazy septics are going to ban...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love how they ban Vegemite the day after I get an offer of internship in the United States!!

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

can you get folic acid from beer?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love how there is an expiration date on vegemite/marmite. Like how can you tell? I just had a vegemite and butter smeared bagel this morning.

― eatadick.com (Carey), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

would this apply to marmite? i need to stock up.

― eatadick.com (Carey), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

esteban! where in the US and are you taking it??

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

estaban! are you the US and where are you taking it??

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Can you still get Steinlager there though?

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Have a vegemite koala taco, MATE"

WE INSIST.

Steinlager is like, the official beer of Hawaii.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

steinlagers is from nz. vegemite is fromn nz. russell crowe is from nz

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

Yes, I am taking it (subject to visa approval)! In Philadelphia!

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

BANNED AUSSIE IMPORTS:

1) FOLIC ACID
2) ESTEBAN BUTTEZ

????

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

vegemite is from nz now?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

I went to look up wiki to see where it is now made (I thought Kraft still had the factory in Port Melb?)

And ey oop, I found this:

US denies Vegemite ban

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

(I thought Kraft still had the factory in Port Melb?)

you can see it from the west gate freeway!

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps it is a publicitee stunt

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I mean dont you love how the Herald-Snu jumped on this story even though it seems to have been an unsubstantiated crock? No one else reported it.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, theres a thot.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

haha,

LCD Soundsystem's already recording an album for Vegemite.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

"IS LCD's POWER IN MITE THE HIGH VOLTAGE OF 2007?"

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

sure puts the rose in my cheeks

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

HA-HA-HA-HAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES AT MY HOUSE
HA-HA-HA-HAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES AT MY HOUSE
HA-HA-HA-HAPPY LITTLE VEGEMITES AT MY HOUSE

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE WEHERE IS VEGETIME MADE

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Australia.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Steinlager tastes like vegemite. Sorry for confusion.

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

still confused

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, my cousin came through last week and brought 6 tubes of Vegemite, and had no problems whatsoever. (Tubes of vegemite? Wtf?)

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

we brush our teeth with it

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

For that savage glow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

WTF, Ned? Is that some sort of Pauline Hanson remark?

...

;-)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah the tubes are weird. I think they're meant to be for picnics or something, I dunno.

A little vegemite in a roast beef gravy is a *great* flavour boost, akin to adding worcestreshire sauce. Goes nice similarly in soups too.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

GET MARMITE INSTEAD ... you can buy that shit on amazon!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

Marmite is cack. Too sweet!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

marmite is an abomination.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

getcher god dadburn vegemite outta our country. god bless South Car'lina. whar's mah gun

― badg (badg), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

marmite is an abomination.

i agree ... BUT so is vegemite!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://images.blogthings.com/whatenglishspeakingcountryareyouquiz/australia.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

What sort of koala booster are you, Tad? ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

the three people in the US who eat vegemite are weeping this loss greatly

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

Except, there isn't one, because it isnt banned.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

I give this a week before it gets a SNOPES entry hehe.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

channel ten was reporting it as well today, including the doubt over the veracity of the rumour. they said it was definitely true but people could still bring it in to the US because customs have never been required to search bags for it. who knows how credible channel ten is though. i don't care too much because there is no ban here!

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Ive since read a retuers that said there always has been some kind of import restriction (this isnt the same thing as a sudden new ban of course) but people can bring stuff in anyway. Dunno which is right but I bet there hasnt been some recent full on ban specifically because "it has folate in it".

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

folatio joke in 10... 9...

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

vegemite is made is australia but owned by kraft who are american. "new zealand"? WHATEVER.

but yeah russell crowe is from new zealand. mel gibson is from USA, nicole kidman was born in hawaii. blah blah blah. but ellen's hot girlfriend is all OZ.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

I give this a week before it gets a SNOPES entry hehe.

How about one day?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was pretty pissed off about this for a minute

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Snopes are fast.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/DOGS.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

so can you buy this stuff at stores or what? what does it taste like?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ass gone bad.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

It tastes like apple butter, but without the apple or butter flavor.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

hmm. love apple butter, not big on ass.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

This looks like it's the only Vegemite thread, so I'll pretend it's a CLASSIC OR DUD thread:

CLASSIC.

Aimee introduced me to it, and I've mostly been having it on toast with butter, but my favorite use for it by far is on a cheeseburger, preferably with some sort of spice (habanero Cheddar, for instance, or hot sauce in addition to the Vegemite and cheese). Also good on roasted potatoes, and I've just had a bowl of glass noodles with roast pork, roasted asparagus, Vegemite, and a little demiglace to thin it out.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

You are the only person I know who would ever even think of that.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was reading a blog entry about someone eating noodles with Maggi in Malaysia, and Maggi's in that class of Thick Brown Umami Condiments with Marmite/Vegemite/etc, so I figured what the hell.

Dinner tonight: pimento cheese-stuffed burger with Vegemite.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kraft need to hire you for a new ad campaign man.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've never stuff cheese or anything into a hamburger. What is the method?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

I keep looking for the reply button.

Vegemite is really an ideal burger condiment, because it's compatible with the existing traditional burger condiments -- so unlike teriyaki sauce or something, it gives you an expanded palette rather than an alternate one, something that doesn't happen as often. (Of course ketchup itself is an example of this happening -- in fact, an example of it happening twice.)

Cheese-stuffed burger: I pressed a layer of ground beef on a plate that was thin enough that the resulting burger wouldn't be massive, but thick enough that things wouldn't leak through; spooned some pimento cheese onto it, leaving a wide margin just in case; and then pressed more ground beef on top of it. This burger happens to be rectangular because I'm out of buns and am using a sub roll, but that shouldn't matter.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, I wasn't sure if you did that or rolled a meatball, thumbed a hole, pushed the cheese in and pressed the whole thing flat.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't want to do that with pimento cheese, but I think you could with something more solid -- Cheddar, roasted peppers, etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25633898-401,00.html

we know you love vegemite and we totally respect that and we won't change your Vegemite, it's a national icon 8==m=D~

but here try this its srsly smoother and better

― wilter, Sunday, 14 June 2009 11:48 (sixteen years ago)

"It's the like New Coke, it'll be around forever!"

― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 14 June 2009 12:11 (sixteen years ago)

While the exact recipe is a closely-held secret, the new Vegemite experience is, basically, regular vegemite combined with cream cheese.

So it's Vegemite and Cream Cheese. But the exact recipe is a closely-held secret. All we can tell you that it's Vegemite and Cream Cheese.

― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 14 June 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

loll

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Sunday, 14 June 2009 12:27 (sixteen years ago)

To determine the level of that affection, Kraft undertook its “How Do You Like Your Vegemite” census and the Vegemite forum.

”They told us they wanted a Vegemite that doesn't require combining with butter and one that's easier to spread,” Mr Talbot said.

Wait, whaaaat. The whole point is the melted butter. I dont want the butter BUILT IN. I tried those vegemite flavoured Kraft Singles and they were complete ass. DONT MESS WITH MY MITE.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:35 (sixteen years ago)

Mind you a very-slightly softer formula wouldnt go amiss, I have to admit. But only if NOTHING ELSE CHANGES.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:36 (sixteen years ago)

Being a Snu article, I'm suprised theres no comments and "vote now" on that article, with 675654534232 frothing old aussies saying "HANDS OFF A TRADITION YOU FILTHY SEPTICS"

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)

otm re melted butter Trayce. For a while I was going no butter, just 'mite. I was such a fool

― wilter, Monday, 15 June 2009 01:46 (sixteen years ago)

this is str8 bullshit and i look forward to its complete failure

― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:49 (sixteen years ago)

it mite go well in cheesymite scroll bullshit tho

― wilter, Monday, 15 June 2009 01:51 (sixteen years ago)

mmmm

― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:52 (sixteen years ago)

are u frontin on cheesymite scrolls wilter?? good god

― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

The new Vegemite won't be on the supermarket shelves until July 5 with the launch being forced on Kraft after the existence of the product became public.

are they worried people will download it from rapidshare or something

― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:55 (sixteen years ago)

hahahaha

― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Monday, 15 June 2009 01:56 (sixteen years ago)

co-worker just told me while waiting for the coffee to brew that her son eats a vegemite sandwich every day at school, BUT in a bizarre twist he will only eat it if the two slices of bread are spread half with vegemite and half butter, then folded individually in a triangle shape. it's not even a sandwich at all if you ask me!!

kids are fuckin weird sometimes, for serious

― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:08 (sixteen years ago)

If they called this shit Cheesymite and made it clear it is what it is - vegemite flavoured Kraft Cheese Spread - then all well and good. Otherwise blurgh.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:12 (sixteen years ago)

lolstralians

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Monday, 15 June 2009 02:14 (sixteen years ago)

;__;

― wilter, Monday, 15 June 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)

H i do <3 the scrolls!

sometimes they're just not vegemitey enuff tho.

― wilter, Monday, 15 June 2009 02:17 (sixteen years ago)

trayce i reckon bakers delight might have a few words to say on your naming plan there

― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah well they can shove it.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

Creamymite then.

― ghetto nanna (sic), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

it might indeed

― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Monday, 15 June 2009 03:49 (sixteen years ago)

Ewww.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Monday, 15 June 2009 04:00 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

we got some vegemite from family friends in australia.

should i try this shit or is it super duper grossville?

― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

there is only one way to find out...rub it all over a brown banana and scarf it.

― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:28 (fifteen years ago)

i would hate to ruin the ~~shock~~ surprise

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

I think it is really delicious & I eat it lots, but most people's first exposure to it results in screams of "gaaah what the fuck"

basically if you're not the sort of eater who on tasting something weird goes "people like this? I wonder if I ate more if I'd start to like it too" then you should give it a pass

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

pro tip: the more you slather onto a piece of bread the better it tastes

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:31 (fifteen years ago)

see now if you are hoping to enjoy it I would say "start with a very thin coating" but I think jjjusten, not to cast aspersions, does not have the noblest of intentions here

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

http://cafecomritalina.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/vegemite-2.jpg

― circa1916, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

Agreed. Also, works better on toast than bread. Grainy bread is better than white, with a touch of melting butter, a dabbed spread of vegemite. No, fuck it, white is great too.

― paulhw, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

pro tip: if i like you and give you a "pro tip", i am probably trying to ruin your day for my own amusement

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

lord forgive me
the vegemite got me not knowin' how to act

― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:37 (fifteen years ago)

i did a taste test on this + other weirdo aussie/NZ/britisher spreads here somewhere but i cant remember the thread title. i also had my poor unfortunate dog undergo the same trials.

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:38 (fifteen years ago)

fyi:

this looks to be "kids" vegemite or something, it has a cartoon kangaroo on it, don't know if that means its a slightly different version of vegemite or not

― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

psst MARMITE RULZ AND VEGEMITE SUX SHIT

note thread title is v incorrect

― you're the fucking treasurer (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

what is marmite???

jjusten:

is vegemite basically australian lutefisk?

― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

hahahahahahaha

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)

i have to think about that but uh maybe. pretty sure im still down with the bovril option above the others tbh.

does this stuff ever spoil? because i think i still have all three somewhere in my cupboard

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

the other thread title was a big fat lie.

― estela, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)

marmite precedes vegemite historically I think but an Aussie told me marmite was a "pale English imitation" and he said it with such conviction that I agree no matter what the facts of the matter are

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)

protip: use a holepunch and punch a hole in a brown banana. squeeze out all the contents. using a syringe, inject the same brown banana with vegemite. eat said banana w/o peeling.

― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

xposts otm: best on toast with melted butter, teeny tiny scrape of vegemite. White bread is kind of a must.

Salada worms are awesome too (too much vegemite in this picture imo)

http://www.howdoyoulikeyourvegemite.com.au/images/type-photos/9.jpg

Marmite = ass

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:49 (fifteen years ago)

uh I'm pretty sure that cracker is infected.

― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:50 (fifteen years ago)

ahhhhhfghghghhhhh

― Kool G. Frap (jjjusten), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

lolll

― you're the fucking treasurer (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

;_;

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

I used to love making the vegemite/butter wormies with my saladas or .. those other crackers I forget the name of wtf is wrong with me.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

Also I <3 JD even more now because he reps for the Vegemite.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

Marmite is awesome, you fools. But I fear this is an argument that may cause permanent war between Australia and the UK.

― emil.y, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

guys, they're all terrible

― 156, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

no no no...j0hn sez vegemite roolz. case closed.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:07 (fifteen years ago)

'zactly.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

look you guys let me break it down for you what quality snacking is all about. get some crackers. then get you some nice sharp cheddar cheese. slice the cheese into cracker-sized pieces. spread vegemite on one cracker, place slice of cheese atop vegemite, top with other cracker to form the immortal cheddar cracker vegemite sandwich of destiny. snack and be happy. have a cooper's if you are still thin enough to be drinking beer and have a club soda if you have had to bid a sad farewell to beers.

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

^^^ Would definitely agree if Vege- was replaced with Mar-.

Although if your waistline can't take beers I'm not sure what it's doing with cheddar.

― emil.y, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

I am unlikely, after eating a cheddar cheese cracker or two, to feel compelled to drink 8 16-oz bottles filled with cheddar cheese, and indeed unable to resist the temptation to do so, all the while insisting that those around me join in -- my treat!

key difference

― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

I envy your restraint. This may be why I'm getting a tad porky.

― emil.y, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

man I would really like some cooper's right now

― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

Would drink all this bottles of cheese fwiw.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:30 (fifteen years ago)

Love Marmite, not too bothered about Bovril... does Vegemite taste like either?
My jar of Marmite in the cupboard is hardly touched, though, as I can't find any bread nice enough (that isn't sourdough etc) to do it justice.

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)

I'll take a Coopers, hold the cheese

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:32 (fifteen years ago)

Vegemite stronger than Bovril, better than Marmite :D

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:33 (fifteen years ago)

Could one compare the flavour of vegemite to Guiness, at all? I'm trying to think how to describe it, when you grow up eating the stuff it just isnt alien at all.

― C.R.E.P.E (Trayce), Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:55 (fifteen years ago)

They brought out a Guiness Marmite a while ago iirc

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 1 July 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

The taste is closer to soy sauce I reckon. Soy sauce + Guinness

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 1 July 2010 01:08 (fifteen years ago)

mmmm

― 156, Thursday, 1 July 2010 01:29 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

happy birthday

glad u haven't been banned from the usa

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

nodding my head like yeah

― markers, Monday, 18 April 2011 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

The new Vegemite won't be on the supermarket shelves until July 5 with the launch being forced on Kraft after the existence of the product became public.

are they worried people will download it from rapidshare or something

― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Monday, June 15, 2009 11:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is complete lolz

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:38 (fifteen years ago)

hb vegrrl!

Vegemite is so utterly normal and ubiquitous that I keep forgetting foreigners don't have it.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

Vegemite is so utterly normal and ubiquitous that I keep forgetting foreigners don't ~~have~~ want it.

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:46 (fifteen years ago)

it was okay iirc but certainly no crunchy peanut butter + honey

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:47 (fifteen years ago)

I keep a jar at my desk at work, I try to convert people on the regular

Yr next mookie

Also thanks for birthday wishes and for not banning me from the USA <3

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:48 (fifteen years ago)

xp Did you spread it thick like peanut butter?

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:49 (fifteen years ago)

in my experience Americans who've tried it and hated it have done it unsupervised and spread it like peanut butter which is in clear violation of the usage codes...just no helping people

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:49 (fifteen years ago)

yeah mookie how did u spread it

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

Urg that sounded a little weird out of context lol

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:50 (fifteen years ago)

I mean you CAN spread it like peanut butter but that's an advanced technique. Newbs and the general public are advised against it unless they absolutely know what they're doing.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:52 (fifteen years ago)

I used to suck it off a spoon.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:52 (fifteen years ago)

i don't really remember! it was at like a b&b where shit was laid out with no usage codes at all. i was too exhausted from driving on the left to figure it out

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:54 (fifteen years ago)

hot toast, lotsa butter, scrape of Veg...it should be right on the label for imported jars or at touristy places

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

xpost when were you in Australia, mookie?

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

"scrape of Veg"

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

happy birthday btw

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

new years 2007

still haunted by hook turns tbh

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 05:57 (fifteen years ago)

Nothing goes better with matzot than thinly spread Vegemite

― moley, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

Hook turns are easy, you just go into the left lane when you see a tram line, stop in front of a load of cars, wait for the light on the perpendicular road to turn either red, amber or green depending on which rule book you have read, which junction you're at and what year it is, wait for the traffic behind you to fail to stop and then simply continue through unless the oncoming cars aren't paying attention and plough ahead killing you and your family. I fail to see how this is difficult to understand.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

Whereas Vegemite is just a thin layer. THIN.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:01 (fifteen years ago)

Hahah yeah thats about right. xpost

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:02 (fifteen years ago)

oh hook turns ;_; also triple lane roundabout with a tram running through the middle at Royal Parade. Rites of passage/trauma/carnage

xxpost thanks Schlaf <3

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:07 (fifteen years ago)

I have navigated that roundabout several thousand times and it still scares the living shit out of me. There's a similar one in Essendon next to the Lincolnshire Arms, i don't even

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:09 (fifteen years ago)

At some point actual people in an actual room have had an actual conversation about that roundabout.

"What's the most logical route for that tram line?"
"Straight through the middle of the roundabout"

madness

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

Vegemite is made from the ENTRAILS of the victims of that shit fyi

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 06:13 (fifteen years ago)

akin to trying to cross the traffic circle surrounding the arc de triomphe on foot without realising there's a tunnel, perhaps

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:14 (fifteen years ago)

Always was convinced it was a fuck-you from whoever designed it to the city council, or something....seriously those kinds of shenanigans should NOT be allowed in city planning

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:15 (fifteen years ago)

there's a tunnel under the Arc de Triomph? Good to know

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:15 (fifteen years ago)

pretty sure the only traffic through that roundabout is out of towners and sadistic parents teaching kids how to drive

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 06:17 (fifteen years ago)

isnack2.0 was a bit of a hook turn for Vegemite

― moley, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:01 (fifteen years ago)

whut is that?

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:05 (fifteen years ago)

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:06 (fifteen years ago)

i do not know where to begin, i actually do not know where to begin

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

I'm afraid now

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

http://images.brisbanetimes.com.au/2009/09/30/762143/420isnack-420x0.jpg

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:08 (fifteen years ago)

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:09 (fifteen years ago)

iirc Kraft ran a competition for the public to name a new version of Vegemite that's mixed with cheese. Some feller submitted "iSnack 2.0" and WON, and they actually launched this thing and stacked shelves across the country with it. Within weeks the damage wrought to the brand was so pure that Kraft ditched it and renamed it Cheesybite.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:10 (fifteen years ago)

This was an enormous furphy here. Vuvuzela-like moans of disgust were audible across the land.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:11 (fifteen years ago)

has American Idol taught people nothing? People are morons! Don't ask them about this stuff!!! Ugh omg lololololol

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:12 (fifteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite#Vegemite_Cheesybite:_new_recipe

The name was chosen by a panel of marketing and communication experts to appeal to a younger market, capitalising on the popularity of Apple's iPod and iPhone.[19][20] ... On 30 September 2009, only 4 days after the announcement, bowing to significant pressure from consumers, Kraft released plans to abandon the iSnack name

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:12 (fifteen years ago)

I mean it's all so outlandish that we could be having you on but dead set this was a real thing.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:13 (fifteen years ago)

Have they released the tapes from the marketing meeting where they all creamed themselves over iSnack 2.0?

God the backpedalling must have been magical to witness

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:14 (fifteen years ago)

Was the competition run through the Herald Sun y/n.....or open only to 20/20 contributors

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:15 (fifteen years ago)

loooooooool

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:18 (fifteen years ago)

I still reckon the whole "oops" of that campaign was a get-attention beatup. NFI why tho, its not like vegemite needs sales boosts.

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:21 (fifteen years ago)

p sure American Idol hasn't taught Australian food execs much tbh

― Hypermotard: (sic), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:24 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah but I think they got the wrong kind of attention, short-term greed damaging long-term gain sort of thing xp

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

btw rest of world, hook turns are a Melbourne-only thing, and proof that fair city is cursed by foul demons

― Hypermotard: (sic), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry if this is upthread - but vegemite is the same as marmite, yes?

You can get premium aged Marmite like it's port or something, which is WTF in its own special way, tho not on an iSnack 2.0 level.

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:26 (fifteen years ago)

vegemite, tampons, pet food...shit walks off the shelves whether you advertise or not, just leave it alone jeeeeeeezus

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:26 (fifteen years ago)

xp Vegemite comes from yeast but yeah, similar. We have Marmite here, it's called Our Mate.

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:27 (fifteen years ago)

oh marmite comes from yeast too, nm

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.britzinoz.com/uk-australia/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/our-mate.jpg

^ once again, not a joke

― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:28 (fifteen years ago)

what a disaster for oz

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:28 (fifteen years ago)

Polite answer: marmite similar product, somewhat different flavor
Australian answer: raaagggh fug off with yer marmite

Premium marmite? Really? Weird

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:28 (fifteen years ago)

Our Mate??? What the Christ is that?

What the fuck has been happening over there

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:29 (fifteen years ago)

next thing you know they'll be drinking fosters

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:30 (fifteen years ago)

ILX needs a 'like button'

― moley, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:32 (fifteen years ago)

only it should be called 'liek'

― moley, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:32 (fifteen years ago)

yeah please tell me Fosters is not making it's way back

If that becomes an ironic hipster Pabst Blue Ribbon thing I'd lose my shit

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:34 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4542176197_1e26c29fbf.jpg

Using four specially selected yeast sources, our master blender has crafted the secret Marmite recipe and matured it four times longer to create a Marmite so strong and full bodied it can only be for the most devoted of lovers

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:45 (fifteen years ago)

EXTRA OLD

Lololol

Omg I'm dying over here

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:47 (fifteen years ago)

That shit sounds like it would melt your face off

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:47 (fifteen years ago)

Does anyone use it? Like, to eat?

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:48 (fifteen years ago)

don't want to know about yr aged yeast tbh

― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:48 (fifteen years ago)

Hahaha

Its not my birthday anymore but now I am "extra old" lololol

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:50 (fifteen years ago)

I have never heard of Our Mite before, this is monumentally stupid

even more so than Dick Smith's usurper Aussiemite

― Hypermotard: (sic), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:52 (fifteen years ago)

xp I haven't tried it yet no. I'll buy a jar, have it for breakfast tomorrow and report back.

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Monday, 18 April 2011 07:52 (fifteen years ago)

Be careful dude

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:53 (fifteen years ago)

xxpost oh Dick Smith, god I remember all that bullshit...is the Easter Bilby stil a thing too?

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 07:54 (fifteen years ago)

Easter bilby very much a thing... need to choose my words carefully as my dad was one of the ringleaders in its establishment

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 08:10 (fifteen years ago)

Shut up, really?

I got given an Easter Bilby for Easter at uni one year...thought they were a weird crackpot notion until then, and I got such a kick out of it I don't think I ever actually ate it.

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 08:15 (fifteen years ago)

who wouldn't want some of The Electronic Dick's breakfast spread, I ask you

― Hypermotard: (sic), Monday, 18 April 2011 08:22 (fifteen years ago)

*raises hand*

But I would like to fly his helicopter (not a metaphor)

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 08:25 (fifteen years ago)

Shut up, really?

Yeah--don't know if you're of an age to remember the Curiosity Show, but my dad was one of the two fellas on that, and the Easter Bilby was one of his more recent unlikley projects

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 09:28 (fifteen years ago)

!!!

― estela, Monday, 18 April 2011 09:57 (fifteen years ago)

JESUS

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

srsly if my dad were THAT COOL i wouldn't be keeping it under my hat for 10 yrs

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

i had a thing to say about dick cheese but fuck it, boring suddenly

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:24 (fifteen years ago)

As long as it wasn't in reference to my dad...

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:49 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah--don't know if you're of an age to remember the Curiosity Show, but my dad was one of the two fellas on that,

OK holy crap what the heck!? Thats AWESOME!

I used to always joke that I knew the show had just been on cos I'd walk into the kitchen to find my brother standing over a fire in the sink, going "well that didn't work".

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:55 (fifteen years ago)

Your dad was awesome goatee beard dude! I'm sorry this is really blowing my mind.

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:59 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa8h-7kiZzQ&feature=related

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 10:59 (fifteen years ago)

wau this is my favorite thread in ages.

― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:00 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks to this thread I now have the Curiosity Show theme stuck in my head.

"cuuuriosiiteeee! Whatwhowherewhich how or whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy *crappy 80s synth noises*"

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:15 (fifteen years ago)

...

SHOW

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:22 (fifteen years ago)

That's the one!

Surreal moment in our house was the night we were watching the Comedy Company and they did a send-up of it and Glenn Robins was being my dad.

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:26 (fifteen years ago)

brilliant

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:30 (fifteen years ago)

OK holy shit thats nirvana right there that is. LOL.

James hang on where in mongrel land are you and have you been to a FAP? I did wonder.

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:40 (fifteen years ago)

and do you pack maroon skivvies

― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 18 April 2011 11:41 (fifteen years ago)

Ha! No maroon skivvies--I'm in Adelaide.

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

Not that the 2 are mutually exclusive

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

xp: no, this will melt your face off:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xpVin2DPLkY/TZSXhbizbqI/AAAAAAAAC0w/Qu2y_IWh4Q4/s1600/Vaseline+Lip+Therapy+Marmite.jpg

― light...sweet...crude (Sanpaku), Monday, 18 April 2011 13:20 (fifteen years ago)

James! Curiosity Show owned my after-school watching!

Wow, this is a wonderful development! god bless the easter bilby!!

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 17:53 (fifteen years ago)

I was scrolling through this thread and saw "vegemite tampons" in a post; I am not going back to verify if that's actually what I read or not

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Monday, 18 April 2011 17:54 (fifteen years ago)

Rest assured that there is a comma between the two, Dan.

― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 18 April 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

They make Marmite sausages, so cylindrical items flavoured with vegetable extract are not unheard of.

― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Monday, 18 April 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)

somehow a period seems more appropriate

― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Monday, 18 April 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)

The Marmite Vaseline is an April Fool's, but Marmite Chocolate is all too real.
http://www.fdin.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/marmite-chocolate-300x220.jpg

― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Monday, 18 April 2011 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

Very peculiar--they're not kidding!

― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Monday, 18 April 2011 22:05 (fifteen years ago)

Heck if chilli choc can exist, i guess so can that. I wonder what it tastes like.

― Concubine Tree (Trayce), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

something not unlike "ass paste" is my guess

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

I wonder if NotEnough survived his breakfast test with premium Extra Old marmite...

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

chili chocolate is amazing

― Hypermotard: (sic), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:46 (fifteen years ago)

fuck all of you marmite haters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

marmite forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:49 (fifteen years ago)

Marmite tries to hard.

― moley, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 05:14 (fifteen years ago)

xp I didn't go to the shops last night, I had a haircut instead (less tasty on toast, I'm sure) so no marmite xo report today. I promise i'll be on it tonight tho.

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 07:28 (fifteen years ago)

Marmite XO was a disappointment, tbh. I had some one slice of toast with XO and one with regular marmite, spreading it equally thinly/thickly on each, and I had a cup of strong coffee to cleanse the palette after each bite (also to wake me up). I would describe XO the way that people who don't like regular Marmite describe it, sort of leathery and cloying; I guess that's the super-yeast. I'm not sure its particularly pleasant, but that might be just me not being used to it. I'll give it another go tomorrow and see what happens.

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:36 (fifteen years ago)

I'm sure it tastes like melted vinyl...I mean, I'm sure aged Vegemite would taste equally as horrid.

"hey we have this product with a very strong acquired taste...I know, let's make it so strong it becomes an industrial adhesive!!!!"

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:38 (fifteen years ago)

I have never tasted the stuff, but based on what I know by reading (your posts) I think I would probably like the stuff. I hate sweets and really go for the savory. I will go to the food imported store and bravely purchase a jar of Vegemite and get some crackers, thus will probably gain 10 lbs in a 48 hour period, but it's worth it, (right?????) for the whole introduction of Vegemite to the USA thing.

― Wiggywoo, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:55 (fifteen years ago)

Waht, I have Vegemite on Vita-Weat all the time, not fattening at all.

― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:56 (fifteen years ago)

golden rule: USE IT SPARINGLY

A light smear with a little butter on a cracker you will be fine

Do not spread that shit like peanut butter or it will be your downfall!!!

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 06:59 (fifteen years ago)

they make hitler parody videos about people who take too much vegemite

― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:02 (fifteen years ago)

freaks of nature

― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:16 (fifteen years ago)

I don't want to get used to Marmite XO then unable to go back to normal marmite because I can't taste it, and I get locked into paying an extra quid for Extra Old.

Its an hour later and I can still taste the XO after after another 2 cups of coffee. Bleugh!

― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:39 (fifteen years ago)

I have some things to say but I guess I am not saying them fast enough - twice ILX keeps timing out (shit) so whatever, I will now abbreviate and say I will try the V stuff and buffer with some butter and advise back, if ILX's new server will give me a chance to post!!!! xoxo Wiggy.
Thanks VegemiteGrrl and Autumn Almanac for instructions. I'd be lost without you both!

― Wiggywoo, Thursday, 21 April 2011 07:59 (fifteen years ago)

My first Vegemite - with less sodium:

http://www.kraftbrands.com/kraftvegemite/Pages/product-information-my-first-vegemite.aspx

― moley, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

B b but we're happy LITTLE vegemites!

― Trayce, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

We tried it, it's beefy.

― finish with a fast piston pump (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 00:39 (fifteen years ago)

Actually I could kinda get with a lower salt one if it was full of flavour. I should give it a go.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

Harrumph

― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 01:59 (fifteen years ago)

waiting for MyFirstVegemiteGrrl dn

― balls deep understanding (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4542176197_1e26c29fbf.jpg

I got some of this, it's not actually much stronger than normal Marmite, and thus not really worth the extra money, but it does taste fucking good on a buttered crumpet.

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 14 May 2011 10:46 (fifteen years ago)

^^^ yeah my dad got this, you can deffo tell the difference, tho. nice.

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 15 May 2011 21:25 (fifteen years ago)

i'd say the trick for beginners is to lightly grill some toast, but lots of butter on and then a just a little bit of marmite. before long you'll be slathering it on. (toast, that is)

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 15 May 2011 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

also, stir a little bit in as you're frying mince beef: WELL FIT.

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 15 May 2011 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Late happy bday Veg!!!!

Also reviving this thread for its startling claim-to-fame reveal by oor James up there.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 04:15 (three years ago)

I have my first small jar of vm in six or seven years and I'm going abso ham on it, have demolished like 1/3 in 8 months

also hb shazdog?

― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 04:44 (three years ago)

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:12 (three years ago)

still love a bit of veg on toast, klassik

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:13 (three years ago)

I didn't really like Vegemite as a kid. But when I was living in France I developed this real craving for it and used to go on a pilgrimage to the only shop I knew in Paris, somewhere on the Left Bank, where you could buy it. Now, it's about the only thing I like to put on toast. The mysteries of Vegemite!

― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:45 (three years ago)

startling claim-to-fame reveal by oor James

WHAT, THE, FUCK
those guys were SUCH a part of my mental landscape they were practically family in the 70s/80s.
INCREDIBLE

― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 07:49 (three years ago)

LOL that was exactly my reaction when this came up!

(should have tried to make some kind of "I have one I made earlier" gag)

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 22:15 (three years ago)

HB VG
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― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 20:19 (three years ago)

Neverban VG
Happy belated hope you had a great day!

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 20:36 (three years ago)

cheers! it was suitably enjoyable :D

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 20:38 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

gifted my beloved children with the Easter Bilby this morning, thanks James and his dad

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 31 March 2024 01:20 (two years ago)

Had a packet of vegemite shapes yesterday, nice to eat as a novelty but I'll stick with the nacho flavour (unbeatable).

vry cool claim to fame earlier in the thread. Gonna pick up an Easter Bilby next year

― H.P, Sunday, 31 March 2024 01:25 (two years ago)

happy easter, mongrels and bilbyfux0rs

(am now onto a second jar)

― bae (sic), Sunday, 31 March 2024 04:39 (two years ago)

my 6yo insists on eating hot cross buns with butter and Marmite. I like Marmite well enough but that's going too far

― kinder, Sunday, 31 March 2024 18:41 (two years ago)

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