Has anyone here tried Vegemite?

Only once. No. Yeast, to me.

I think it is an acquired regional taste like haggis or scrapple.

I’ve tried both Vegemite and Marmite. They are just as Marina describes them. Aussies eat the stuff just as we yanks eat peanut butter. Definitely an acquired taste.

Too strong & salty for me.

@Marina – What is scrapple?

Scrapple = Grotesque pork and flour/corn meal loaf. Kind of like Spam but with a meatloaf consistancy. Usually fried, not boiled in a sheep’s stomach so it’s probably better than haggis, though.

Eeek, that doesn’t sound too appetizing.

Well, AC has the gist of it. Here is more technical and less prujudicial info.

When I was introduced to it in Philadelphia, people tended to fry it very thinly and so well done that while attempting to try my first bite, I forked into the “slice” and sent the chosen piece shooting off the plate and across the room.

I ask you, is that the way to cook something one loves?

“Scrapple may contain pork skin, pork heart, pork liver, pork tongue—even pork brains.”

Mmmmm, braaaains! :D

I think I may try it anyway though! I’ll try anything (well almost anything) at least once!

Try Marmite, it’s so much nicer than Vegemite.

I didn’t like Vegemite, too salty/yeasty/malty/whatever.

@AstroChuck, haggis is wonderful! And don’t spare the neeps and tatties.

I’ll take the Scrapple, with a drizzle of maple syrup, thanks. :D

I’ll pass on it all, thank you.

Awww no fun!

I sent my brother in USA a sample of Vegemite and he said he used it around the foundation of his house to keep out termites. I would be deported if that were public knowledge. Although there is a movement afoot here to banish it from grocery stores because it is so high in sodium and I think fat. But the second in command to the Prime Minister says she is a happy little Vegemite and it will never happen as long as she has anything to say about it.

Ha, we took Vegemite to our Indonesian inlaws, they thought they had been poisoned! same with licorice.
But here in Aust it’s no big deal, we have Marmite and Peanut Butter as well, and being Scottish I don’t mind Bovril.
But c’mon whats wrong with Haggis, or better still try some well made Black Pudding.
Sweet Tooth, try a Mars Bar coated in batter and deep fried…

And I thought deep fried candy bars was Southern US white trash cooking! Up there with funnel cakes. Wait, that’s deep-fried frozen Twinkies….

It was hard to get past what it looked like, but I love all things Australian so I had to try it. I agree, a bit too strong of a taste for me. It’s always fun to try something new though, isn’t it!

I thought Vegemite tasted like a cross between soy sauce and Maggi Seasoning – so salty! Scrapple, I can take if it’s cooked as mentioned above, fried to a crisp. But I must defend Funnel Cakes…I believe it is physically impossible to sit on the trashy Boardwalk of Ocean City and people watch without a delicious funnel cake in hand!

@bythebay- Is Boardwalk Elvis still hanging around the boardwalk?

@AstroChuck: He was there last summer, boom-box & all! So, you’ve experienced the culture that is the BWalk?

THERE’S A BOARDWALK ELVIS? Must. Go.

Vegemite and Marmite are both completely foul if you’re not used to them.

My daughter lives in Marion Station (near Salisbury), MD, so when I’m out east we often go to OC.

I wish I’d taken up all those offers to head out there now.
Regret blows.

@asmonet-no regrets, you still have plenty of time!

It is on my to-do list as of…..now.

I LOVE VEGEMITE!!!! IT IS AMAZING!!! i got addictied to it when i went to Australia and i cant find it anywere in maryland so i order it online….but the stuff is addicting if anyone knows were i can get some let me know!!

We have it on toast here in Perth, WA. it’s nice with cheese.
We took some over to our in-laws in Java, Indonesia. They thought we’d tried to poison them! same with liqorice… even with all the exotic things they eat, must say they got me a few times with their food.

I’m not fond of Vegemite, but I love licorice and assumed it was known all over, not just Australia as is Vegemite. I am surprised Indonsians were not familiar with it. Wiki says, “While the origin of licorice is uncertain, it is believed to have originated in the East and has been grown since early times in China, Persia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, northern India, Russia, north Africa and the Mediterranean countries.”