"He Just Smiled, and Gave Me a Vegemite Sandwich"...

Just before he was promptly arrested.

The silliness continues.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10554664

Actually, the article is sloppy as it says the Australian Government is discussing taxing high salt and high fat food, but then says that if the government has its way it would ban that type of food. So which is it? Either way, I would oppose this, and do not believe that taxing or banning any of the food mentioned (including blue cheese) will bring about the results the politicians assert they want to achieve.

While I find both Vegemite and blue cheese abhorrent, I am, of course, not in favor of governments protecting me from them. Just as I am not in favor of governments protecting me from all unpasteurized cheeses.

(At my last place of employment we had a large number of Aussie participants. We always made sure there was Vegemite in the breakfast room. I tried it once. Only once.)

And I thought we were more compatible. I like 'em both. I only wish Vegemite or Marmite weren't so expensive.

Also a useful "secret" ingredient in chili & cottage pies etc. as in addition to filling out the flavour, it seems to help "bind" the minced beef.

is it not true that in the Old Testament (perhaps Leviticus?) it is written: That among the abominations are Vegemite, Marmite and, God protect us, that thing called "Gentlemen's Relish".

As to government intervention in dining on such abominations, I am clearly opposed. Let them that wants them, eat them.

Best
Rogov

P.S. I adore Gorgonzola and many other blue cheeses. No connection whatever between those and Vegemite!!!!!!

Vegemite is a crime against taste buds. I tried my hardest to like it because *Celia* told me it was a cure for hangovers. Well, it only makes things worse. Except for shoes. It does serve as a fine shoe polish.

Are you hung over now, Dave? No? See, it worked.

I personally doubt it's going to happen, after all, the article was from Crikey...

Vegemite is the food of kings.

As a small child, I was fed quite often on "vegemite broth" - a generous spoonful of vegemite melted in hot water. Break a few chunks of white bread into it, and - voila! I think the baby boomer generation was brought up on this. Mothers would say, "It's got vitamins in it!" I imagine it laid a foundation for hardened arteries and high blood pressure in later life - certainly contributed to a taste for salty foods.

I quite like vegemite but eat it rarely.

I once had a tour of a Kraft laboratory (Kraft Food Ingredients)- one where they fashioned "food".

It was like going into the Pentagon. I had to have an ID badge. I passed through several locked doors.

I was escorted the entire way.
There was nothing anywhere that resembled what most folks would recognize as food.

Everything had a number and a chemical name on it. The "cooks" were all chemists.

They were trying to contract me to use some of their stuff and combine it with real food so they could show their marketing people how to sell it.

I went away that day with several boxes of stuff like "cheese powder #s 6 & 12", some fake bacon, and a case of "Sweet & Sour" in #10 cans.

They called me a few times over the next few months and asked me if I had come up with anything.
After hanging up I would go look in the pantry again and try to make myself get the stuff out and do something with it. I couldn't.

Kraft has been proudly producing Vegemite since the 1920s!

...Everything had a number and a chemical name on it. The "cooks" were all chemists.

Ach zo .... molecular gastronomy!!!

...Everything had a number and a chemical name on it. The "cooks" were all chemists.

Ach zo .... molecular gastronomy!!!

Indeed.

It reminds me of a remark I heard from a winemaker in Alsace, concerning winemaking in Germany: "The Germans are not winemakers. They are chemists. Their wines have no soul."

Personally I don't agree with that evaluation of German winemaking.

But I consider anything from KraftCo as artificial until proven otherwise.

-Paul W.

In general, I'd agree with you. But vegemite is just leftover brewer's yeast extract, and even though Kraft owns it in this country, it doesn't always put its logo on the jars. Probably because it never caught on and they don't want to be associated with it.

Are you hung over now, Dave? No? See, it worked.

I personally doubt it's going to happen, after all, the article was from Crikey...

Vegemite is the food of kings.

Celia, if Vegemite is the cure for hangovers, it could only be so proactively: I'd avoid drinking if I knew I had to eat Vegemite afterwards.

Are you hung over now, Dave? No? See, it worked.

I personally doubt it's going to happen, after all, the article was from Crikey...

Vegemite is the food of kings.

Celia, if Vegemite is the cure for hangovers, it could only be so proactively: I'd avoid drinking if I knew I had to eat Vegemite afterwards.

Wuss.

I was at a birthday dinner for my wife last night, and a Brit was seated across from me. Somehow we got on the topic of Vegemite and Marmite. He liked it, I like it, my wife doesn't like it and the other people have never tried it. The Brit likes it on butter toast; I like it on crackers.