OT Vegimite redux

Try Marmite, think of Vegimite with attitude. Or try Bovril to make beef tea. Yummy!

Vegemite is the poor second cousin ( Australian) to the original British Marmite!! I know you can find Marmite in Hannafords. Some stores, in their ignorance keep it where they keep packages of yeast. It was quite fun searching for it last year. I managed to replace it at a store down here, Sweetbay, who claim they are independent, but all the generic stuff is Hannafords. Just love that shop!!

Actually, it is an excellent source for some of the Vitamin Bs. At $6 for a small 4,4 oz jar, remind DS it i used *sparingly*. Slather it, and it is gross (right Sharon in NB??)

BTW, there is no beer flavor.....or Marmite flavor in beer. I love them both, but they are to separate entities.

Gill

Just so Sharon knows she isn't alone, my comment is "PYUCH."

Ssssh ! Don't tell him that !

I'm the only Australian I know who doesn't like Vegemite.

Also Tim Tams (chocolate biscuits made by Arnotts)

They both have a cult following in Aus.

Edna

He knows - his comment later was that they both taste like when I tried making a soured starter for bread and he tasted then raw dough...

Australians acquire a taste for Vegemite because most of us get it from the time we first start solid food. I guess my family must have been a bit unusual, because I never tasted Vegemite until I was an adult. Just a very thin smear on hot buttered toast gives a salty/ onion/celery hit. Any more than that would be gross. Vegemite has always been a useful sandwich filling because a small amount goes such a long way.

Well, I am now on the look out for it at store. I know I can find Marmite....

I can't say I like Vegemite (I'm a Marmite person) but I sent some to a person in NB who insisted on trying some right off the knife. Small wonder it didn't taste good, she was too obstinate to try again with a smear on toast or bread.

I like a nice grainy roll smeared with Marmite for lunch, the biggest benefit is that basically there are no calories in a smear.

WEll, we know that no getlewoman would EVER eat off the knife...no, not even peas.

Marmite is superb with toast, crumpets(not as good as butter and pepper), fresh-baked crusty bread....or Ryvita as a last resor, that tends to be 10pm snack when DH and pups have gone to bed.

Gill

I have also tried Marmite and didn't like it either.

Edna

I read somewhere that Vegemite is made from the yeasty waste products of beer brewing, but I may be completely wrong about that. Because I was never a Vegemite kid, I very seldom eat it, but it's one of those things that Australians tend to have in the store cupboard, and there are many Australians who wouldn't consider travelling overseas without a small bottle in their luggage. Every couple of months or so I'll get a salt craving and have it on toast (as I said above). It's certainly salty, but you have such a minute amount that it doesn't really push up your salt intake too much.

I am not sure about vegemite but certainly Marmite is made from yeast extract. For some reason most people think it is a beef product. I think both of them have a high salt content, but one is only eating a smear, not spooning it out the pot.

I think most people think that Marmite and Bovril are the same and I think Bovril is a meat product. I never tasted vegemite, but if it's similar I think that too must be ich,ach,ptui.

Lucille

Marmite is made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. Bovril was a meat extract until 2004 when it became a yeast extract after an export ban on British beef because of fears of mad cow disease and the beef stock was replaced with a savoury yeast mix. However, in

Vegemite tastes better with some butter, or even cheese spread.

Get a small jar in case he changes his mind.

Rosemary

Does he realize the girls may not like him with garlic breath ???

But he won't have to deal with vampires either so maybe it's a tradeoff. lol.