Marmite vs Vegemite
Let's settle this once and for all.
Which is best?
Which is best?
- Namahs Amrak
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Well, you need to consider that the formula for vegemite has changed, so maybe it should be Marmite vs Classic Vegemite vs New Vegemite.
I noticed a change in the flavour a few months ago, checked it out and lo & behold they now make it using yeast spawned on wheat grain as well as barley, whereas before it was just barley. Also, the Kraft branding has been removed and is now listed as Mondolez Foods (still a Kraft company). AN unfortunate business name for the Russian market, if a recent IB Times article is anything to go by:
"........in Russia, Mondelez sounds pretty vulgar. The first two syllables sound like a profane way to refer
to female genitalia, and the last syllable roughly resembles a verb meaning oral sex."
I noticed a change in the flavour a few months ago, checked it out and lo & behold they now make it using yeast spawned on wheat grain as well as barley, whereas before it was just barley. Also, the Kraft branding has been removed and is now listed as Mondolez Foods (still a Kraft company). AN unfortunate business name for the Russian market, if a recent IB Times article is anything to go by:
"........in Russia, Mondelez sounds pretty vulgar. The first two syllables sound like a profane way to refer
to female genitalia, and the last syllable roughly resembles a verb meaning oral sex."
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What??? You're kidding me??Namahs Amrak wrote:Well, you need to consider that the formula for vegemite has changed, so maybe it should be Marmite vs Classic Vegemite vs New Vegemite.
I noticed a change in the flavour a few months ago, checked it out and lo & behold they now make it using yeast spawned on wheat grain as well as barley, whereas before it was just barley. Also, the Kraft branding has been removed and is now listed as Mondolez Foods (still a Kraft company). AN unfortunate business name for the Russian market, if a recent IB Times article is anything to go by:
"........in Russia, Mondelez sounds pretty vulgar. The first two syllables sound like a profane way to refer
to female genitalia, and the last syllable roughly resembles a verb meaning oral sex."
I haven't had a jar of Vegemite in six months unfortunately (I'm in the USA), so I wouldn't have noticed the change. My last stash was 4 big jars from last Christmas that lasted 6 months. Been surviving on Marmite since.
I can't believe they'd have changed the flavour!?!
That reeks of Classic Coke vs New Coke as a result of the Pepsi taste test.
Where's Dolemite?
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It's OK, some say they don't notice the difference at all. To me it was obvious (ie I picked up on it before ever reading that the formula had changed), but I actually like the new flavour. It's only subtley different.Yorick wrote: What??? You're kidding me??
I haven't had a jar of Vegemite in six months unfortunately (I'm in the USA), so I wouldn't have noticed the change. My last stash was 4 big jars from last Christmas that lasted 6 months. Been surviving on Marmite since.
I can't believe they'd have changed the flavour!?!
That reeks of Classic Coke vs New Coke as a result of the Pepsi taste test.
Personally I'm going to switch to Dick Smith's brand anyway, to support local industry, so this jar of vegemite will be my last.
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This is what the Cunnilingus edition jar looks like. Note the absence of a Kraft logo
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It's a jar of dark brown paste that is a yeast extract chock full of vitamin B.Wook wrote:What's all this stuff?
Outside of Australia, Vegemite is often seen as a bizarre food product. Aussies though, virtually every household will have a jar in the pantry. Best used as a spread on buttered toast.
That tube food looks very unusual, I'll keep an eye out for it in the food section of Ikea and give it a try.
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Wook wrote:What's all this stuff?
Thanks Karma. I'll buy one jar to try. I never had caviar from a tube before moving to Sweden. Now there's always one in the fridge.Namahs Amrak wrote:
It's a jar of dark brown paste that is a yeast extract chock full of vitamin B.
Outside of Australia, Vegemite is often seen as a bizarre food product. Aussies though, virtually every household will have a jar in the pantry. Best used as a spread on buttered toast.
That tube food looks very unusual, I'll keep an eye out for it in the food section of Ikea and give it a try.
When it comes to bizzare food, my country has plenty. I'm from Croatia. It's a small central/southern Europe country. This is one of those bizzare thingies. It's pork fat that has been cooked and then brutally pressed into small pieces.
Apologies to the OP for going offtopic.
Wook wrote:What's all this stuff?
Wook wrote:
Apologies to the OP for going offtopic.
No apologies necessary. I'm all about conversation flow.
And that's fascinating. Both the tubed caviar and the fried pork fat!
Wook wrote:What's all this stuff?
Wook wrote:
Apologies to the OP for going offtopic.
Awesome.Yorick wrote:
No apologies necessary. I'm all about conversation flow.
And that's fascinating. Both the tubed caviar and the fried pork fat!
It might sound disgusting but it's really tasty and crunchy.
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You better talk to me or Yorick when you buy a jar, and we can advise you on how to eat vegemite. There are some Youtube videos where people try it by the spoonful. That's not that way it's done !
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Will do. For now, there is a store in Stockholm that has Vegemite and English Marmite. Some other similar things too but i'll go there and check it out.Namahs Amrak wrote:You better talk to me or Yorick when you buy a jar, and we can advise you on how to eat vegemite. There are some Youtube videos where people try it by the spoonful. That's not that way it's done !
Unless you're my daughter!Namahs Amrak wrote:You better talk to me or Yorick when you buy a jar, and we can advise you on how to eat vegemite. There are some Youtube videos where people try it by the spoonful. That's not that way it's done !
Actually as a kid I used to eat it by the spoonful too.
I was a Vegemite junkie!
Namahs Amrak wrote:You better talk to me or Yorick when you buy a jar, and we can advise you on how to eat vegemite. There are some Youtube videos where people try it by the spoonful. That's not that way it's done !
English Marmite blows away New Zealand Marmite btw.Wook wrote: Will do. For now, there is a store in Stockholm that has Vegemite and English Marmite. Some other similar things too but i'll go there and check it out.
Actually Sanitarium tried to ban a guy from importing the English variety (which came before it)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food- ... UK-Marmite
Oh man it's serious! When I've admitted to my family that I like Marmite, they can't believe it. I have to clarify that the English version is very different to the Sanitarium/New Zealand one.Wook wrote:Haha. Marmite Wars.
It's tangier and runnier than Vegemite.
Vegemite is more solid, and less tangy.
To say the same thing twice and repeat myself.
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I have reported you to Canberra, and am pushing to have your Australian citizenship revoked.Yorick wrote:I like Marmite
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Yorick wrote:I like Marmite
Crap, was that my outside voice?Namahs Amrak wrote:
I have reported you to Canberra, and am pushing to have your Australian citizenship revoked.
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Idle hands are the Devil's workshop. You should watch what your fingers are typing.
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which reminds me of....Namahs Amrak wrote:Idle hands are the Devil's workshop.
I don't know why you guys need to discuss this, the answer is pretty simple: http://marmite.co.nz/
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Don't expect to get through Australian Customs with that attitude, ya bloody Kiwi :s0221:raymondh wrote:I don't know why you guys need to discuss this, the answer is pretty simple: http://marmite.co.nz/
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raymondh wrote:I don't know why you guys need to discuss this, the answer is pretty simple: http://marmite.co.nz/
Hahahaha!! When I visit my work head office in Melbourne I continue to roll out the one about how I was surprised they let me into the country when I couldn't tick the box that I had a criminal conviction.Namahs Amrak wrote:
Don't expect to get through Australian Customs with that attitude, ya bloody Kiwi :s0221:
I still find that one hilarious, but for some reason my Aussie friends don't. :s0826:
When we're done with this one, we can start up the question on where Pavlova comes from :s0238:
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