Vegemite

November 2, 2007 at 10:22 am · Filed under random, thoughts

Those of you already familiar with Australian culture will know what is Vegemite. Those who don’t might know Marmite, a similar British brand. However if you don’t know any of these you might wonder what can it be. According to Wikipedia, “Vegemite is a dark brown, savoury food paste made from yeast extract, used mainly as a spread on sandwiches, toast and cracker biscuits”. Well according to me its looks just like another wax for your shoes. Well thats what I thought at the beginning.

Actually I did not eat that much of Vegemite in one year in Australia (I only tried it a couple of time I think) and its only since I came back to France with a tube of Vegemite so as to have it taste (as a joke) by my fellow that I started to really enjoy it. Yes, believe me, as soon as the Vegemite is on the table I must take a piece of bread, spread some butter on top of it and add the magic ingredient. It is much like these other drugs (ie Nutella, Peanut Butter…), you can’t stop eating it until you get sick of it. But hey, it’s full of vitamin B so it won’t do no wrong!

You can find a lot of recipes using Vegemite but I will advise most novices to use half of what the recipe will tell you. Otherwise you might see some funny face around the table.

http://www.vegemite.com.au

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