public service announcement

[deird1]

Being slightly homesick, have spent half an hour on YouTube watching Americans eating vegemite.

GUYS. IT'S NO WONDER YOU HATE IT. YOU'RE EATING IT WRONG.


Everyone keeps grabbing a spoon, scooping up a big glob of vegemite, and sticking it straight in their mouth. Then gagging and saying they hate it. I'm not surprised. I'd hate it too.

Vegemite is extremely potent stuff. It's supposed to be used to add a hint of flavour to your food, not be eaten as an OVERWHELMING FORCE the way all the YouTube people are doing it. Honestly, you're basically putting a full heaped tablespoon of salt in your mouth, and then complaining about everything tasting salty!

...which is a pretty good analogy, because vegemite is quite salty, and works in a similar way to salt.


To properly eat vegemite:
1) Make a piece of toast.
2) Add copious amounts of butter to the toast.
3) Get a very very small amount of vegemite, scrape it over the toast, and then scrape any and all excess off. You should be left with a light-brownish layer of vegemite, through which you can still see the butter.
4) Now eat it.

Quite simple, really.

Comments

[redsixwing]

IDK from Vegemite, but Marmite is delicious.
The grocery store had a teeny-tiny pot of it for sale, and remembering a friend's experience with a spoon, I did not in fact put a big wad of it in my mouth.

I like it with jam. :)

[deird1]

Vegemite and marmite are remarkably similar - just a slight difference in flavour.

I congratulate you on your wise non-spoon decision. :)

[frayadjacent]

I prefer marmite because it has a bit of sugar; vegemite doesn't. Though after a year in Australia I'm coming around. Vegemite is definitely easier to find. But I'll say it's not *just* a matter of quantity -- vegemite is definitely an acquired taste. But starting in tiny amounts is necessary to the acquisition.

I'm sorry you've been homesick! I hope the videos cheered you up.