Vegemite is the Australian equivalent of the more famous Marmite (but there is a taste difference and I prefer Marmite). It is a yeast extract made into a kind of viscous brown spread that is particularly good on toast, and as an addition to soups. I hear that it is made from the dregs of beer processing vats, but this is only a vicious rumor (or rumour). It is really an acquired taste, that a lot of people in the UK and Australia (NZ too?) grow up with. I think it is considered healthy. I acquired the taste many years ago because I was around a lot of British people, but everyone else in my family finds it quite objectionable. Moreover, many are very passionate about this stuff. I was in Gallipoli a few years ago, site of the courageous but ultimately failed attempt by the allies in WWI to establish a beachhead on the Turkish mainland. Australian and New Zealand troops participated in that battle, and many are buried there. Anyway, before I get into too much of a history lesson, it is a site of solemn pilgrimage for Aussies and Kiwis, but is a fairly rural and isolated place. I was pleased to see a sign that said, "Vegemite sold here!" Josh At 16:39 09/01/03, John March wrote: >You don't want to know, or more correctly, you don't want to eat one, that >is unless you grew up with vegemite. Worse than liver and onions <grin>. > > >At 07:57 AM 1/9/2003 -0500, jfarrelly5_at_comcast.net wrote: >>What exactly is a vegemite sandwich? ============================================================================== Dr. Joshua Teitelbaum, Senior Research Fellow Tel: [972] 3-640-6448 Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and Fax: [972] 3-641-5802 African Studies Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 Israel E-mail:teitelba_at_post.tau.ac.il www.dayan.org ============================================================================== *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 09 2003 - 06:58:18 PST
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