The Australian government is proposing banning the sale of the popular Vegemite spread in some communities because it is used to make alcohol.
Australia may limit Vegemite sales amid 'alcohol abuse' - BBC News
Bovril tastes better!
The Australian government is proposing banning the sale of the popular Vegemite spread in some communities because it is used to make alcohol.
Australia may limit Vegemite sales amid 'alcohol abuse' - BBC News
Bovril tastes better!
Nahhh Marmite, Bovril and other copy cats will never replace the Vegemite kids as I assure you eating that and plenty of black sand as an Aussie child growing up in the 50's made you Aussie tough, on hot toast lashings of butter and a good dollop of Vegemite you can then take on with GI Joe his worst enemies in your back yard with a bag of Aggits (marbles) a cardboard box to hide in and win always. I know because I was there.........:lol::dancingbanana:
Vegemite has been scientifically proven to addle your brain .... `Tis a FACT!
Why just Vegemite? Why not limit the sale of all yeast containing products - bread, cake, the lot? Any yeast or yeast product can be used to produce an alcoholic brew when combined with sugar substances (fruit, etc.) and water.
Why do I know this? My Dad told me he and his mates did it during WWII.
This type of legislation proves beyond doubt today's politicians will pander to the lowest common denominator in society. What could be next?
You just can't fix stupid!
As if they didn´t have anything better to do .... Why don´t they just take our cash .... and then go home and leave us alone?
(BTW Vegemite stunts your growth)
KIDS vs. FOOD #2 - VEGEMITE - YouTube
And the rest of the world wonders why Aussies use their teeth as bottle openers and wrestle crocodiles!!! :mad smile:
Had the unpleasant opportunity to try Zout candy once. Take a tablespoon of salt, add a dash of decomposing flesh juice and that will give you an idea of the taste.
You lot who don't like Vegemite simply don't know how to eat it. You don't slather it on bread or toast like bl**dy jam or marmalade. Try a Vegemite and cheese sandwich that is always a hit. A word to the wise for the North American audience: Australian sandwiches are made with butter or (better yet) "Meadowlea" margarine and NOT mayonnaise.
Ok, sooo does Outback steak house serve this? cuz that's the only Australian restaurant I'm familiar with. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Paul S.
You'll have no luck at Outback Steakhouse. Outback Steakhouse is about as Australian as Pizza Hut is Italian. While I can find Vegemite at a particular local market, our local "Pommie shop" and World Market you might have to go to Amazon.com for it. ( Amazon.com: vegemite: Grocery Gourmet Food )
If you do shop at Amazon.com you might want to try Tim Tams as well. Coffee drinkers like to bit off two diagonally opposing corners and sip their coffee through the Tim Tam. Being a tea drinker - not a coffee drinker, I can only take their word for it that it is fantastic.
Yea, I knew that.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul S.
Ah, tim-tams and Anzac biscuits. That those two single items take me right back to my late teens/early 20's. My boss's wife knew I liked them so she'd send a couple in for me. Thanks lovely Marlene from Castlemaine.
Vegemite is a bit of an acquired taste after growing up in Pommieland, being fed cheese sarnies with just a smear or marmite on them. In Oz we used to get the same on what we called 'the supper tray'. But this time cheese and a smear of vegemite
Sounds like maybe about 1000 hrs up in the Offr's mess in Aussie...? A tea break...Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
ANZAC Biscuits are my favourite. The wife bakes a couple dozen for me each month, but they only last me a fortnight if that. There is nothing a nicer than ANZAC Biscuits and a cuppa in the late afternoon just before "knock off time".
She uses the recipe from "The Commonsense Cookery Book" which was the NSW girls' high schools cookery book back in our teen years. That book has been around almost from "Year Dot" so the recipes are tried and true good tucker.
Do some people really believe the yeast extract in Vegemite is active? Well, it’s not. It’s dead and totally worthless for making moonshine.
Take an Anzac biscuit. Smear on a dollop of Vegemite. Lay on a good slice of mature cheddar.
Enjoy!
Used to travel to Australia twice a year on business. I have made many friends there. Aussies are great people and easy to befriend. I thought they liked me too, until one 'friend' asked me to try Vegemite. It was then that I realized that they were actually attempting to kill me!
This is the nastiest stuff ever made. NASTY! :yikes:
MMMM Tim Tams...
I shared Maple Sugar with an Australian and he shared his Vegemite (comfort food while deployed in Baghdad Iraq) he did admit he got the better end of the deal:lol:
I've never understood the Australian fondness for Vegemite - it tastes like someone mixed the residue from the bottom of a brewing keg with some tar and has has been laughing riotously as their butler drives them to the bank ever since.
Marmite, as any prandial spread connossieur will tell you, is the one true spread. Not that English stuff, either; the stuff from New Zealand. If you look in a man's cupboard and see a jar of New Zealand Marmite in there, you know he's a Real Man™ and not one of those hipsters who go around impurifying our great nation's essences. :D
The secret is in how thin you spread it on hot buttered toast! Whats the go with Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches you all go catnipping on and Balony sandwiches! :confused: Vegimite guys does not stunt your growth myself at 193cm and a son at 195cm is proof it does not limit ones growth and an Addled brain Hmmm now where was I Oh! yes.............
My butler tells me that he has spoken with the kitchen staff who maintain that the original product was Argentinian. Leftovers from the immense slaughterhouses boiled the beef until all that remained was a sticky substance sold as `beef extract´. This was popular but expensive so that manufacturers in the Midlands came up with a cheap substitute made out of yeast. This is now sold as Bovril, Marmite, Vegemite and all the rest. And this is what is now consumed by the proletarian masses (the ones who have not yet turned to Nutella).
Vegemite was classified unobtainium when my wife and I first came to the US so we brought a few jars with us. The only available alternative then was Marmite in an area heavily populated by British ex-pats. When the Vegemite ran out I, being younger and less experienced, tried substituting a jar of Marmite in a vain attempt to placate the mother of my children.
I was promptly informed in terms that can not be repeated in polite company that not only was Marmite NOT a substitute for Vegemite, it was NOT an "alternative", and that further attempts to pass off such _____ would promptly result in a painfully cruel death.
Lesson learned.
Balogna with onions and yellow mustard,,,Yummy!! Replace the Balogna with Liverwurst and you my friend are eat'in good.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Not a U.S thing but regional is Scrapple. After all the desirable cuts are taken from the pig what remains goes into scrapple, and I mean everything!!! We eat it with breakfast. I'd punch a nun to get it like my mother cooked it again....
Sounds like what we called Head Cheese...Quote:
Originally Posted by WarPig1976
Yes, it does sound revolting! Better keep it (and many other things) on the other side of the Atlantic.
They do share some ingredients. Scrapple is more of a solidified mush fried until crispy on the outside, mushy on the inside.
Revolting? the German settlers of this area came up with it!!...:roll eyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by villiers
Having eaten Scrapple when I was in Pennsylvania I will be the first to say that I thought its seasoning and flavor was actually very good. The wife on the other hand, thought it was ghastly. Like Vegemite, it is an acquired taste not attractive to everyone.
You know what I'd like to know. Who was the very first knuckle dragger that picked up an oyster cracked it open an said to himself, I think I'll stick this in my mouth. It had to be on a bet???
The darer was probably the mate of the knuckle dragger who was pushing a rock wheel he invented and wondering what practical use it would be to the world! :lol:
Probably a good mate of the first person to look at a cow's udder and think "I wonder...?" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by WarPig1976
Might have been one of the poor sods the tribal leaders hand picked to test which mushrooms and other hunter-gatherer fodder was safe and which not. That or some bloke whose missus was trying to poison him with something she reckoned was so nasty looking it had to be deadly.Quote:
Originally Posted by WarPig1976
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Boxox, AKA "beef tea". Remember that?
I do believe we have scientifically narrowed the search for the guilty parties involved in the great mystery. Anyone with the surname Kahned, Wheeler, Sucker, Tester or Lucky would be a good place to start!!
Beef broth, no? That or chicken broth on a cold winters day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul S.
They still drink something like it in the UK, Bovril.
No I remember Bonox and my mother trying to force it down my throat after I had the first sip of the steaming brew it was pure sh*te I bet even a Hyena would turn its nose up at a cup of that......
I'm pretty sure they just use the vegemite for flavouring purposes...much like the whiskey traders used tobacco, red pepper and soap here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Vincent
Speaking of which, my exposure to vegemite was similar (identical down to facial expressions???) to the children in the video...
----> That's supposed to be BONOX. B****y spell check!Quote:
Originally Posted by ...[COLOR="black"
marmite and vegemite have different uses! marmite and honey toast,vegemite and cheese.
one of the worst things about living in asia is how hard they are to get,and my last lot got thrown out by my nanny when she was cleaning because she thought it had gone bad-this is a issue as I need it if I'm to bring my son up with cultured taste buds
Its the other way round for me, Marmite and cheese, must admit never could stand it but love it now.... strange how the taste buds change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Res
The Vegemite is used as a nutrient to feed the yeast to convert sugar to alcohol. If you haven't got Vegemite a jar of Leggs Tomato Paste will do the same trick.
All legal in NZ.
If your wife or girlfriend ever gets a yeast infection, you'll never touch Marmite again :thdown:
Harry, did you really need to go there? :thdown: