Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/18/take-a-trip-to-the-cyril-callister-vegemite-museum.html
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A company I worked at years ago had a number of international offices, and we always asked during visitors to bring in a local snack or candy. We added them to our “Edible Oddities” shelf and got quite a collection built up, including somewhat well known Vegemite and Bovril.
“Musk” flavored Life-Savers were the worst, but if you want to try…
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Never been witness to more rapidly uttered Australian and British slang (gave up trying to note them down) than during several ad-hoc Marmite vs Vegemite ‘discussions’
links innumerable: one | two | three | four …
(the only consensus being that peanut-butter is 'neath contempt)
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but for the record,
Marmite > Vegemite, IMHO.
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Loved them when I was a kid.
Wrong symbol. You need the input rather than redirect?
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fairly certain i used the greater than symbol, which is correct (again, as stated before, IMHO).
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The first time I tried Vegemite an Australian told me “Take a piece of buttered toast and apply the Vegemite as though a kitten walked through it and then across your toast.”
I ended up adding a lot more because I liked the taste so much.
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It’s on display because not even an Australian will go anywhere near that abomination against man and god.
(Speaking as someone who loves Vegemite, and doesn’t mind oreos.)
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Considered to have made possible the invention of Marmite, because of his discovery that yeast could be concentrated to form yeast extract.
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Bit of a tangent but… the place where I’m pet-sitting now has a squeezy container of Vegemite. I feel like I need to hand in my ‘I’m Australian’ card because I can’t use the bloody thing properly. I failed miserably at the always-in-the-back-of-my-mind goal as described so well by @SpunkyTWS and smothered my buttered toast in it. Also it seems to be thinner than the jarred version, maybe to accommodate squeezing. Anyway, to return to the topic, I wonder if the museum has a squeezy container among its collection?
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Hey! I grew up on those.
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Whilst I am Australian, I must declare that vegemite is basically just a yeast infection in a jar as far as my palate goes.
Expected this to get posted much faster, certainly answered all my questions about the weird salty paste from down under
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukd3lg3Z_Pg
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