slamilcarBarca wrote:shangrila wrote:slamilcarBarca wrote:an australian once gave me vegemite and told me it was good.
i will never trust an australian.
I'm convinced it's a joke I've never been let in on.
It tastes like ass and looks like feces. I have to avert my eyes when I pass it in the supermarkets. Why anyone would pay money for it, let alone actually eat it, is beyond me.
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Ok, so bear with me as I share my Vegemite story, and my take is ultimately different than the ones here.
When I was in the Marines, we did this exchange thing with the Australian army where my company went to an Australian base to train for a month and they had a company go to our base for the same purpose.
My buddy and I saw Vegimite in their chowhall and having heard the Men at Work song, had to try it for ourselves. So we both got a piece of bread and slathered it on like peanut butter. I took one bite and about threw up. The stuff was revolting.
A day or few later we got the bright idea of daring each other to eat a whole piece of bread with the stuff and again spread it on like peanutbutter. I managed to get through the whole piece, though it was a horrific experience. But being young and maybe stupid I did it anyway.
My buddy then remembered an Australian girl he had previously met at some bar in Hawaii and gave her a call. Apparently we were doing it completely wrong. She suggested a piece of toast with butter and the Vegemite spread very very thinly on the toast. (Our spread it like peanut butter method was completely wrong.) Start with a small amount and if you can't spread it all the way over the whole piece, you're doing it right. Add a bit more until you just barely manage to get it spread all over.
So we went back and tried it again, this time with that much needed guidance from a local. And I really liked it. My buddy still didn't, but I was eating 2-4 pieces of buttered toast with Vegemite every morning the rest of the time I was there. I think maybe the shock to my tastebuds from eating a whole piece of toast with it thickly slathered was enough to rapidly develop a taste for it.
When I got back to the States, I made a bet with my wife, who I was just beginning to date at the time, and if she lost she had to have a piece of Vegemite toast. (The right way not the peanutbutter way.) She lost the bet and to her horror, I insisted she eat the toast. We've been married for 20 years now yet that moment remains the one that came closest to ending our relationship.
I have a jar of the stuff in my pantry right now, and still eat some from time to time. Usually I'll have a piece of toast with jelly and one with Vegemite and go back and forth between the pieces.
Anyway, I like the stuff and feel that qualifies me to be an honorary Australian.
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