*He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite Sandwich*

I come from the land down under

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I love my husband -- He is my favourite grown up person on this planet but it FLAWS me that he hates!! vegemite.

How can any redblooded Australian hate vegemite?!?!?!?

Aren't vegemite sandwiches the main staple of any Australian kids diet - didn't we all take vegemite sandwiches for lunch at school.

it's amazing -- Vegemite puts a rose in every cheek - The vitamin B in Vegemite helps kids grow up stronger. It wakes you up - makes you feel great - wash it down with a glass of milo (more milo then milk!)

Put it on Vita-wheats - make worms!!

Add some red frogs -- mmmmm Vegemite and Red frog sandwiches :- see this Link

It's completely unAustralian to NOT LOVE!!!!!!!! vegemite. Remember the song?!?!!? Do you come from the land down under?

Now people are allowed to differ on the amount of vegemite - I personally like a little spread evenly with lots of butter but I have a friend who has no butter and the vegemite is almost as thick as the bread it's spread over.
But you can't be Australian and HATE vegemite -- that's like ...wrong!!

MMM Vegemite sandwiches - think I'll go make me another one.

(in honour of vegemite I've left this blog black)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Quoting Men at Work earns you an automatic insightful.

No fair quoting them just to get the bloody points, though!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually I wasn't - I lost what I was going to say half way through -- It was supposed to be more then just a rant about people not liking Vegemite - more of an ode to Australianism -- but I got lost - as I tend to do -- perhaps I will edit it one day

Or someone else with better prose can rewrite it
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ok... I have to ask

What the hay is Vegimite or milo?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
OH Joey you're breaking my heart

Okay Vegemite is a black sticky jar of yeast extracted spread (the UK has Marmite and Promite - no substitute) -- if you went inot any Australian speciality shop you'd get some.

Please say you remember the Men at Work song - Down Under (what Gideon was referring to ie the title of this blog)

Milo - is a malt drink - produced by nestle - other staple of every Aussie kids diet -- tastes FANTASTIC sprinkled over ice-cream -- these days you can get milo ice-cream, milo biscuits (cookies) and milo chocolate bars
Basically it's a choclatety malt powder that you stir into milk but its chunkier then ovaltine and it sits on top of the milk so you eat it with a spoon -- the link I put in my article talks in depth about milo as well as other Aussie food - like tim tams.

Better yet - Janders just pop on a plane - bring your hubby and come down under - Between Muggaz Mig and I we'll have you sorted out in no time!!!
(*note to Muggaz - and you said I didn't have to Americanise everything)
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
thanks for the clarification.

I will have to check out the ingredients on the vegimite next time I am at byerly's (a specialty grocer), to see if I can try eat.

Sad to say I wont be trying milo anytime soon, malt is on my list of foods I cant eat. So have a extra glass for me!

If I am ever down under, you can fill me (the silly American) in on everything to eat!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Trina~ I do remember the Men at work song, I am a true child of the 80's!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Joey!!

I think I've misinformed you - I'm such a ditz

You can get malted Milo - but it's not actually a malt drink -- but I have no idea what it really is - malt was the best I could come up with -- help me out here Aussies
But I think it may contain a malt extract - so you're probably better off not eating it - just in case
I don't have a tin to look at (we ran out of milo months ago and never replaced it -- we're coffee drinkers)

As for Vegemite
Yeast extract, salt, mineral salt (508), malt extract (from barley) natural colour(150d) Contains preservative 220 Vegetable extract, niacin, thiamine, riboflaven, folate
*suitable for vegetarians*
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Love the Men at Work song, hate Vegemite but then, I'm an American.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I had never heard of vegemite, but I am intrigued now . . . mmmm . . . black, gooey, non-meat substance . . .

Cute post, trina!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mason - I shake my head at you Americans are convertable too.

I shake my head at YOU Texas! You haven't even heard the Men at Work song? -- it was part of the 1980's quiz we all took a few days ago

Black gooey non meat made from beer and quite salty -- MMMMM - is good for mouth ulcers/colesores too.

Well I charge all you non alergic people to find and eat some vegemite in the next week!! I recommend a small amount on bread (with or without butter) to start with and then add more according to preference. And report back with your opinions
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh Cosmos why did you have to say such a thing -- call yourself a proud Aussie?!?!?!

Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame - (I'm Daryn Hinch)

Seriously - you hate vegemite - WHY?!?!?!?!
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
I can understand why anyone wouldn't like Vegemite... but why someone wouldn't enjoy Milo is beyond me...

I love them both beyond beleif!!! A Typical breakfast is Vegemite on toast with a great big glass of Milo!!! Yummm!!!!

My brother loves Milo so much that we got him a really big tin of it for Christmas, and it was one of the best presents he ever got!!!

Good blog TRinz

BAM!!!
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Seriously - you hate vegemite - WHY?!?!?!?!


Ummm... if it quacks like a duck...

It smells like shit, it looks like shit, it tastes like shit... therefore it must be shit! (unless it is a REALLY thin spread with HEAPS of butter on Toast... not Bread!).

Ever had Marmite?
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
oohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh vegemite on toast with butter -- not margarine -- and a glass of milo where you make sure the milo stays at the bottom, drink all the milk except for a little tiny bit that you mix into the milo and make into a feral looking paste that tastes diviiiiiine.

i've loved milo for as long as i can remember -- when i was a little kid and i asked my mum about drug addiction she explained it to me that it: "you know how you really like milo? well it's like loving milo a LOT" which of course made perfect sense to 5 year old me. go mum and the nestle company.

vegemite is certainly an acquired taste. i used to only like it very thinly spread on toast but i've built up a tolerance to it and am now able to enjoy vegemite sandwiches and the spread amply applied to toast. it's also good instead of using beef stock (one teaspoon of vegemite in a cup of hot water) and my friend lisa spreads it on lamb chops before cooking them.

a veritable myriad of uses! thanks for a cool blog bina, and tell nick he should reassess his alliegance to australia. maybe he should compensate for not eating vegemite by eating extra jaffas, timtams, milo and hamburgers with beetroot on them?
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
It has the same ingredients as Beer so it should be good! But i have my doubts.

If I am hungry enough I would eat it and say "thank you very much!"
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
To bad it has malt extract or I would pick some up, maybe I will anyway and make my husband try it.

Have you ever had Nutella? That is the best!
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey Trina .. i HAte vegemite as well! really gross! BTW i think now we should point out that Vegemite is no longer owned by an Australian company but is now American.. remember the Dick Smith debacle? Funny cause my sister not long ago handed me some toast with vegemite on it.. I would rather peanut butter.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh yeah - but better then nutella is MILKY WAY SPREAD -- its nutella and white nutella swirled together - mmm (they also made a snickers spread which was sooo great - peanut butter, nutella and caramel in a jar!!!!! - on TOAST!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes Joey - make Mr Right have some Vegemite on Toast.

Gosh I love food!

*tegan with all this talk of foodstuffs can you explain to me why my doctor wants me to have tests on my thyroid for being too thin???

OH Jaffas - I forgot about those -- mmm Australia produces the best stuff.
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
black sticky jar of yeast extracted spread


sounds.....nasty.

*shudder*
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah yeah kraft blah blah -- It's still Australian INVENTED

and don't talk to me about aussie might or mighty mite or those other vegemite wannabes -- they taste totally different - and kinda gross

*promite is much sweeter btw*

pffft - Un-Australian PB just like my husband
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah yeah kraft blah blah -- It's still Australian INVENTED


Australian Invented American made.. lol..what else is new? Vegemite is way too salty! Anyhow Im Aussie to Italian Parents... Yeah Nutella is YUM!
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Australian Invented American made...lol..what else is new?


Exactly - can anyone say Ugg Boots
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
vegemite on toast with butter -- not margarine --


margarine is the devil!

Even with butter nearly doubling in price over the last year, we don't EVER buy margarine...we just ration our butter.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
I eat everything, we've got extra virgin olive oil spread in our fridge at the moment.

But my dad or sister would only ever have butter -- I could harldy ever tell the difference.