Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:22:11 -0400
Reply-To: Sam Scholten <scholten1@MARSHALL.EDU>
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From: Sam Scholten <scholten1@MARSHALL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Vegemite.
In-Reply-To: <362C3AE1.6131024D@pnc.com.au>
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Maybe Vegemite (sp?) goes with a good Australian beer- you know how it can
be, when you hated food as a kid, but when you started drinking, your
tastes began to broaden. Maybe you just need to be fried out like your
combi in order to appreciate the stuff.
Then again, I need to face my own heritage. Wurst? Braunschweiger? How
much Dutch and German beer do you need to really like that stuff???????
Best regards,
Sam
P.S. I would love to find out what American meat products are disgusting
to Europeans and Australians. Beef jerky might be one. I doubt that a
T-bone steak or baby-back ribs would be considered awful, though. Who
knows?
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ray Hunnam wrote:
> Amen to that folk's
>
> I hate the bloody stuff. My best description is that it resembles tar,
> is very very salty, and definitely an acquired taste. They have been
> trying to force it down my throat for the past 50 years and I do say
> without any luck. All I can say is that the wife and kids love it.
>
> Ray.
>
> P.S. It's a beef extract actually.
>
>
> David Marshall wrote:
>
> > I always thought that it was a yeast extract.
> >
> > At 15:15 10/18/98 -0400, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> > >Joel: It is a paste that one puts on bread or crackers that is the
> > >consistency of peanut butter, the color of chocolate (with a bit of
> > >red) and (to the north American palette) is foul tasting. It is an
> > >animal extract with what tastes like huge amounts of salt in it.
> > >
> > >If you want to get an idea of the taste, put an "Oxo" cube in your
> > >mouth!! That is about as close as I can describe it to a North
> > >American.
> > >
> > >Popular in Aust. and maybe UK.
> > >
> > >I lived in Tasmania for two years and never got use to it. It IS an
> > >acquired taste.
> > >
> > >Maybe someone from Aust. can send Joel a bit of it.
> > >
> > >> but what the heck is Vegemite!!!?????
> > >>
> > >> inquiring old farts want to know! :)
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> > -- David Marshall Quesnel BC Canada mailto:david@volkswagen.org --
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> > -- 87 Audi 5KQ, 85 1.8L VW Cabrio, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab --
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>
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