Richard - I just got this package in the mail from my brother:
I still have 99% of the jar you bought me in 2004 - now I have a two-lifetimes supply. Yippee.
That's more than two lifetime's supply.
Probably appropriate that that jar is sitting on a motor as Vegemite is a good substitute for axle grease.
Come to think of it, the axle grease probably tastes better!
I still have that taste in my mouth from trying it! Ugh!
Last Wednesday evening I saw a jar of vegemite just like that. I was less than five feet from it.
I lead a group that has formed a 501c3 organization that raises money to help 4-H members in our county to be able to participate in out-of-county learning experiences, especially those promoting leadership experiences. In 2013 we awarded a $1000 stipend to a fine young man to assist him in participating in the International Four-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) program. This program sends kids from all sorts of places to other countries around the world to experience life in a different culture. The length of stay varies from a few weeks to several months. This young fellow spent nearly a month during June and July in Albury, New South Wales, Australia living with a farm couple and their five children. Albury is about 290 miles from Sydney and about 160 miles from Melbourne. He attended our annual meeting and gave us a 30-minute presentation on his excursion and showed us numerous items he had acquired while in Australia, including the dreaded vegemite. He confessed that he had tried the vegemite, but did not care for it. He said that about half of the Albury family members thought it was great and the other half thought it was terrible. He spoke of eating kangaroo, emu and alligator while there and really enjoyed kangaroo meat. His journey included a day or two in Melbourne upon his arrival and a day or two in Sydney upon his departure.
Divine Kine,
My brother told me his Aussie friend instructed him to butter some toast, butter it again and then smear a little dab of engine cleaner Vegemite on it where, once spread on the toast, the engine cleaner Vegemite is so thin it's translucent. I countered with tamping a dab down the barrel of a loaded gun and shooting it into a tree. A lot less work with no horrid aftertaste. Likely kill the tree though.
Pussies! Vegemite is great!
Vegemite is not great but it's nowhere near as bad as all the histrionics would lead you to believe.
> I still have that taste in my mouth from trying it! Ugh!
Yea...same here!!! :-O Nasty stuff man!! :bored:
Come on guys it put chests on your hairs !
Mike that decade old bottle of Vegemite could make you a fortune!
Only seems like yesterday we were romping in Bend park with Scot B4 dining with your daughter for lunch.
RADU
I knew the Vegemite call would wake you from your slumbers
Indeed Richard - time marched on in the quick step. If my brother ends up relocating to Southeast OZ to be with this gal he visits numerous times a year, we'd come down to visit and side trip over Adelaide way and we could romp and dine some more.
And now my earworm of the day is "Down Under" by Men at Work. :music:
(I was told by a Brit to toast some bread, butter it, and put a thin smear of Vegemite on the toast. Worked for me. Why, I've willingly eaten it more than once!)
I knew the Vegemite call would wake you from your slumbers
Mike, You are on! Simply purchase a ticket with Adelaide as a stop over point or end point and other destination your stop over.
Will have toaster ready, ut bno need to bring your life time supply of Vegemite.
BTW What is your now not so young daughter doing these days?
RADU
Vegemite Cheesybite
Radu,
What is Vegemite Cheesybite like? Better? Not so much?
Bruce
Vegemite Cheesybite
That is disgusting stuff and should never have been allowed.
Vegemite is not to be adulterated!
I discovered the disdain for our culinary delight when in Hawaii.
And yet all (well most) Aussie Defence have a supply sent over when there is a shortage.
