Re: Someone is paid money to come up with this!
Posted: Sat May 23, 2015 7:47 pm
Smoke infused I suppose - makes sense.
I've never really understood the Vegemite hate thing, to me it's an evolution of the Marmite that I grew up on in the UK - it's better, smoother, a tad more subtle, and, in moderation delicious.
You really do not eat spoonfuls, as Bent was told, smear it on a piece of buttered toast, or indeed, very much indeed a light smear on a roast and definitely in gravies and injections.
We go through a large jar a year, about half for cooking the other half is a mix of toast and the kids visiting, they all four of them love Vegemite sandwiches
My theory is that those who have a problem with it probably don't like liquorice either, as in it's black, can't be good for you (Liquorice actually unless refined is really, really bad for you but Vegemite is not )
Eh, some people do not like caviar, good, more for me
Cheers
Edit:
No idea if this is whole truth, comes from ThinkGeek, usually pretty reliable:
"Vegemite, like its English predecessor Marmite, is a savory spread beloved in the countries of Australia, New Zealand, and in the How-To Geek kitchen as well. The spread itself is something of a bit of culinary and entrepreneurial genius as it is primarily composed of the waste product of beer brewing: the spent brewer’s yeast. If there’s anything more clever and entirely Australian than producing millions of gallons of beer and turning right around and producing millions of jars of delicious spread with the leftovers, we don’t know what.
Between its introduction in 1922 and today, the Vegemite recipe has remained almost completely unchanged. The Vegemite manufacturing facility in Port Melbourne produces 22 million jars a year; the 1 billionth jar rolled off the processing line in 2008.
In addition to being a practical use of a waste product, it’s also the world’s most Vitamin B dense food with an enormous amount of thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and folic acid in each serving."
Mind you - Geeks can have rather strange food preferences