BBC - Australia may limit Vegemite sales amid 'alcohol abuse'

[WarPig1976]

You'll have no luck at Outback Steakhouse. Outback Steakhouse is about as Australian as Pizza Hut is Italian.

Yea, I knew that.....

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[Peter Laidler]

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

[browningautorifle]

fed cheese sarnies with just a smear or marmite on them

Sounds like maybe about 1000 hrs up in the Offr's mess in Aussie...? A tea break...

[Paul S.]

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.

[Vincent]

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.

[Lee Enfield]

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.

I'm pretty sure they just use the vegemite for flavouring purposes...much like the whiskey traders used tobacco, red pepper and soap here...



Speaking of which, my exposure to vegemite was similar (identical down to facial expressions???) to the children in the video...

[Patrick Chadwick]

Take an Anzac biscuit. Smear on a dollop of vegemite. Lay on a good slice of mature cheddar.


Enjoy!

[Drill Sergeant]

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!

[AFJon]

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

[Colonel Enfield]

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.