Are there other countries with Vegemite/Marmite style condiments?

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Or is this purely an Anglo-Australian phenomenon?

― Fat Mama Kick, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmm vegemite is a gift from god

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Freak

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Marmate is immense - I must buy anothe rtub, I get through one of those big tubs in a fortnight, and I can't go without it on toast as my mornign munch.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I see salty liquorice as the Netherlands Marmite.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought salty liquorice was Swedish?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

the name vegemite always makes me think that there is a meat version somewhere.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Aussie Bovril is called Meatmite.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

as in the phrase "fancy some meatmite mate"

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

how much meat might a meatmite mate if a meatmite might mate meat?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

We just bought some vegemite and melba toast the other night. I could see acquiring a taste for it.

Is there a difference between vegemite and marmite?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Vegemite tastes more vegetable stocky than Marmite, and has a grainier texture. Marmite is nicer.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Aussie Bovril is called Meatmite.

pish

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Good pish, though.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there's an equivalent in the U.S., though I'm told peanut butter is similar in that almost everybody outside the U.S (and Canada?) thinks it's disgusting.

I have always wondered, however, how is Marmite/Vegemite eaten? Do you put it on sandwiches? And how much? It's so pungent I can't imagine really slathering it on, but then again I can't really imagine eating it at all.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Your peanut butter information is faulty. We just don't eat with jam (jelly) very much.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(you just spread it very thinly. A pea-sized amount will cover two slices of bread)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut butter rocks, what could be wrong with it?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So you just eat it on toast? In place of or in addition to butter?

I think it was a French person who told me that "everybody in the world" other than Americans hated peanut butter. It's quite possible she didn't know what she was talking about, though it wouldn't surprise me if most French people didn't like it. It doesn't seem quite their thing.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. Vegemite definitely lasts forvever — I have a small jar a brought back with me in November 2002, and it still seems to be OK.

It's hard to tell with that stuff if it's spoiled, though. It looks like grease someone collected from bicycle chains — and this is coming from someone who LIKES it. And yes, it rocks on toast.

― Satan's Onion (twowaydream), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

So you just eat it on toast? In place of or in addition to butter?

In addition to. Unless you're weird. Some people are weird. Not just toast - on fresh bread too.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too hard to spread if you don't use butter.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

No it isn't, I don't have butter with it & it spreads just fine. I like peanut butter on crumpets, fresh bread, toast, ryvitas, crackers, pretty much anything tbh!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, you're talking about peanut butter. I thought you were still talking about marmite. Sorry, wasn't paying attention.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought we were talking about marmite too.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

We were. My apologies for brining the apparently not so universally reviled peanut butter into the picture.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate peanut butter.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

God I'm so confused!! Peanut rules. Marmite is lovely & I have it without butter, but it's so much nicer with!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

what about brown sauce?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh god i'm not helping)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut butter in the UK is strange and has a bizarre texture and is not at all like 'merkin Peanut butter. I once heard an american guy exclaim "It tastes like semen," and well, that pretty much sums it up.
I like brown sauce. I do not like the yeasty taste of vegemite.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, brown sauce.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Finns might want to claim that salted licorice think as well (salmiakki). I've managed to find its purest essence in syrup form, which allows one to make not only salmiakkikoskenkorva (vodka), but also a myriad of desserts and sweets. Have yet to try it on toast, though. I have sampled it on the overpriced doughnuts here, and they taste pretty darn good.

I noticed the peanut butter in Germany lacks a certain desired consistency as well.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I once heard an american guy exclaim "It tastes like semen,"

did you ask him "what does semen taste like?"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut butter in the UK is strange and has a bizarre texture and is not at all like 'merkin Peanut butter. I once heard an american guy exclaim "It tastes like semen,"

!!!

Are you talking the crunchy variety or the smooth? (of semen, obv.)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It depends what kind of peanut butter you get I suppose, but I cannot see that it tastes like semen on any level. I mean, I'm sure there would be far more blow jobs taking place if this was the case.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

He was referring to texture more than the taste, I think. But pinXor has a good point.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/images/marmite.jpg

Children love Marmite, apparently.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

even from a texture pov!
x-post
dude, you hope that's marmite! (ignoring the jar obv!)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

texture is more a feel rather than a taste isn't it?

You taste, just like a semen
you feel, just like a semen

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Haw.

I bought a tub of Marmite in the UK. When it runs out -- that will be the signal to me that I need to return to England.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

eat faster pls.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if it's possible to develop a taste for Marmite.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"this is the thread where we ask Marmite to make major decisions for us"

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Marmite,

My toast and I are looking for something to make our breakfasts together more exciting. Can you help us?

Something's Missing in Brooklyn

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

For the ultimate cheese on toast experience spread some marmite on the cheese after you've grilled it. Yum.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

btw - I don't think Marmite is a condiment.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant imagine eating marmite. or vegemite.

i cant imagine peanut butter being at all like semen either. even the crappiest kind ive had isnt totally gross. it tastes like fucking peanuts. its not like some yeast extract where you're like, hmm, what could this really taste like? peanut butter is ground peanuts. if you enjoy peanuts otherwise, how could you not like it?

i actually like it MORE than regular peanuts.

http://www.ilovepeanutbutter.com/ ive never been, but wish to go.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Peanut Butter & Company is great, if a bit overpriced. Their spicy peanut butters are delicious.

If Marmite isn't a condiment, what is it?

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

A spread?

A condiment is something like salt or vinegar that you add to spice something up.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I was hoping you were going to say it was a living creature.

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It's spreadable love, Nemo. Spreadable love.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Now we're back to semen.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Marmite goes bad? I was hoarding marmite and vegemite at one time. Now I have a jar that says it is expired. And I want to finish the jar before i open another jar so I put, like, a tablespoon of it in oatmeal and use it in place of miso. I should really just go to the grocery store and buy bread.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I always forget I have vegemite in the cupboard and as a result have about 5 open jars in various sizes in the pantry.

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither of these are as weird to me as Marmite, but Turks and some middle-eastern countries have this Eggplant spread called something like Agvar. Also olive paste is pretty popular in some mediterranean countries.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Marmite >>>> eggplant paste

eggplants are just bleurghh!!!

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

do americans/aussies have branston pickle? worcester sauce?

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno about branston pickle, but holman's worcestershire sauce is a pretty popular condiment in my household

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

actually now that i think about it i think it might be holbrooks. whatever. it has an orange label and is yummy in bloody marys.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You can buy Branston Pickle at some safeways and coles supermarkets

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

branston pickle always makes me think of brompton cocktail which is a slightly different thing..

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

There's always Cheez Wh1z, which is quite the American spread/condiment with a gross-out factor to many outside (and inside) N. America.
I puree a can of chipotle peppers and call that a spread/condiment for toast or tortillas, but I don't know if that's a mexican/south american tradition at all or just my own bastardization. Really good though.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

After having my marmite on toast this morning, I'd just like to day that my 'pea-sized amount for two slices' was a bit of an underestimate. A pea per slice, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not very good at converting spread amounts into legume sizes and should never have started on the whole project.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i like a 'smidge' of vegemite with butter on each slice wholemeal toast. 'smidge' is a highly term, and i think more accurate than the legume scale.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

*highly technical

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Marmite on wholegrain toast for breakfast of a morning. No 'smidge' for me - I slather it on, for that ultimate shove-off-the-cliff start to the day.

I worry that it might make my breath smell horrible though, so I then have to spend half an hour scrubbing my teeth with Colgate before I can leave for work.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely Gentleman's Relish* pwns both Marmite and Vegemite, plus any other similar condiment?

*This is not a euphemism for spunk.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

nothing on earth pwns vegemite. also please note that vegemite pwns its poorer rivals such as marmite and promite.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you had toast with Gentleman's Relish* on it in the morning? You'll see I'm right.

*Still not a euphemism for spunk.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i am afraid i don't think i could bring myself to partake of toast with gentleman's relish, because of its uncanny connotation of spunk. while i realise this is quite cowardly of me, fortunately vegemite fills the hole created by my reluctance to try spunk on toast.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you talking about this stuff? I had to buy some of that for my grandfather once.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

But... it's full of salty anchovy goodness!*

*Still not spunk.

Enjoy the 'definitely not spunk' condiment here.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post Yes.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ok so admittedly it totally sounds like my cup of tea in the way of condiments. maybe i'll live on the edge a bit and see if it is available from my local supermarket's condiment aisle. i think it would always have to be known as spunk though.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Gennelmun's Relish - not for the faint-hearted or anti-anchovy amongst you. Oh, it is so good and fishy and spicy.

It so does not taste like spunk. Well, maybe the spunk from someone who's eaten a large amount of well-peppered anchovy pizza in the recent past.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

great. now it has to be known as fishy spunk.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's kind of grainy and brown, so maybe diseased fishy spunk?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm appetising

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

GR* on yr Ts.

*Yes, this time it is a euphemism.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread keeps on coming back to semen.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a bit like life in that respect.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I did a google search for Marmite (my initial search for "spreadable love" proved to be somewhat of a distraction), and found the claim that if you haven't developed a taste for it by the age of three, you probably never will. But how did people develop a taste for it to begin with? Were there hordes of toddlers in nineteenth-century England sneaking into breweries to scrape out the vats and lick their fingers?

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"There's always Cheez Wh1z, which is quite the American spread/condiment with a gross-out factor to many outside (and inside) N. America. "

i always thought that cheeze whiz existed solely to provide characters in sitcoms and movies a chance to gratuitously spray it into their mouths as an act of "comedy".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheez Whiz is made by Kraft, which also makes Vegemite. Coincidence? I doubt it.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

now it has to be known as fishy spunk.

Except that actual fish spunk is harvested and sold as milt.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

So apparently I don't have to refrigerate Marmite? I opened a thing of it and left it out on the counter for a couple of weeks and I was worried that it would go bad and I would never be able to tell.

I haven't been able to get into it on toast, but it made an interesting addition to a stir fry.

― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:06 (thirteen years ago)

I was tricked into eating a piece of marmite chocolate last week and it was so horrible I started heaving and nearly vomed all over myself. Evil evil stuff.

― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:36 (thirteen years ago)

A joke...

Do you know which 80's indie guitarist is like a divisive yeasty condiment?

No, I don't, but Johnny Marr might.

― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:45 (thirteen years ago)

causes insomnia

― buzza, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:11 (thirteen years ago)

No, you don't need to keep Marmite in the Fridge.

A little bit of Marmite on hot buttered toast is one of life's little pleasures.

Also, if you "whip-up" Marmite with a knife it goes white!

― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

Marmite is my secret ingredient in vegan vegetable broth. I've come to much prefer it to the Kraft foods product Vegemite, which is sweeter, less sharp, and more difficult to spread.

No English/Aussie partisanship involved here, though I have found 16 oz jars of Marmite at a Indian-American owned ethnic foods store about a mile from here.

― der dukatenscheisser (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)

I haven't had Gentlemen's Relish in ages, must rectify that soon.

― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

I have neither bread nor butter in the house, but later this week I will give Marmite another shot. I am pretty sure I like the flavor, but it's just too strange to me to tell if I actually do.

Except that actual fish spunk is harvested and sold as milt.

Chicago's alt-weekly does a column called "Key Ingredient" in which local chefs make something with an unusual ingredient. A few weeks ago it was cod milt.

Duncan Biddulph of Rootstock takes on the male genitalia of the fish —including semen

http://i.imgur.com/80VWP.jpg

― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 02:13 (thirteen years ago)

oh lord that is an ugly sack of flesh.

i like marmite it's pretty good. mostly just tastes salty?

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:18 (thirteen years ago)

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