Marmite, Vegemite, and Peanut Butter

[Luzion]

Marmite, Vegemite, and peanut butter. These are supposedly good examples of food stuffs that you must grow up with in order to enjoy. So Im bored and curious to see if this is true. Are these food stuffs really that nasty that the only way someone would like it is if they had a childhood built around this stuff?

Anyone wanna share their experience of say, traveling to Australia and trying out Vegemite? Or perhaps some non-Americans came over here and tried peanut butter for the first time? What was your reaction to these foods?

[bravos1]

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Marmite, Vegemite, and peanut butter. These are supposedly good examples of food stuffs that you must grow up with in order to enjoy. So Im bored and curious to see if this is true. Are these food stuffs really that nasty that the only way someone would like it is if they had a childhood built around this stuff?

Anyone wanna share their experience of say, traveling to Australia and trying out Vegemite? Or perhaps some non-Americans came over here and tried peanut butter for the first time? What was your reaction to these foods?

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Vegemite is just plain nasty! I don't know of anyone who thought peanut butter was nasty (talking about non-americans). Some don't like it much, but could still eat it... I can not say the same for vegemite! I almost puked.

[STLantny]

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Marmite, Vegemite, and peanut butter. These are supposedly good examples of food stuffs that you must grow up with in order to enjoy. So Im bored and curious to see if this is true. Are these food stuffs really that nasty that the only way someone would like it is if they had a childhood built around this stuff?

Anyone wanna share their experience of say, traveling to Australia and trying out Vegemite? Or perhaps some non-Americans came over here and tried peanut butter for the first time? What was your reaction to these foods?

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Vegemite is just plain nasty! I don't know of anyone who thought peanut butter was nasty (talking about non-americans). Some don't like it much, but could still eat it... I can not say the same for vegemite! I almost puked.

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I like peanut butter, I dont know what the other things are.

[cold_cash]

Obviously you don't come from a land down under.

[bravos1]

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Obviously you don't come from a land down under.

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No suprise there... I was visiting (and nearly puking)

[Luzion]

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Obviously you don't come from a land down under.

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No suprise there... I was visiting (and nearly puking)

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How much of it did you eat? Ive read that a little goes a looong way.

[samjjones]

http://www.nndb.com/people/550/000042424/colin-hay-goofy-med.jpg
HE likes it...

[JaBlue]

vegemite is disgusting

nutella, on the other hand...

[bravos1]

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Obviously you don't come from a land down under.

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No suprise there... I was visiting (and nearly puking)

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How much of it did you eat? Ive read that a little goes a looong way.

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Not much at all.. a very little bit spread on a small peice of bread. It was spread about as thickly as you spread butter on toast.

[Ray Zee]

even most aussys wont eat that stuff. its awful.

[Dex]

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Where women glow and men plunder.

[4_2_it]

If vegemite was served in prisons, the ACLU would be filing lawsuits faster than a 2+2'er holding quad aces calling an all in re-raise.

[sfer]

Vegemite is gross on many levels. Not the least of which the label:

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I've had it once, spread on hot buttered toast like I was told. Disgusting.

[Luzion]

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even most aussys wont eat that stuff. its awful.

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Is that true? Damn. Then which aussies eat that stuff? And is it the same for Marmite in the UK? Those Marmite commercials Ive seen online seem to try to take advantage of that fact that you either hate it, or love it.

[daveymck]

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even most aussys wont eat that stuff. its awful.

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Is that true? Damn. Then which aussies eat that stuff? And is it the same for Marmite in the UK? Those Marmite commercials Ive seen online seem to try to take advantage of that fact that you either hate it, or love it.

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I love marmite but I also like Bovril which is simiar type of thing but have it in drink, was brought up on that nighttime soccer matches with my dad we always had a flask of bovril for half time warming up. Marmite on toast is fantastic as are marmite crisps (chips). People say vegemite is the same as marmite but it isnt is completely horrible disgusting stuff.

Can get vegemite in most stores in the uk though so must be a market for it here.

BUt marmite is a love hate thing it seems.

[lem45216]

Im in the UK, and i like peanut butter, but not many people seem to, certainly not as many as in the US, where, as i seem to remember, they were always making reference to peanut butter sandwiches on sesamee street. But yeah i've grown up with the stuff. I also like marmite, and i've grown up with that.
Not too sure bout vegemite though, what is it? Whats the difference between it and marmite?

[daveymck]

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Im in the UK, and i like peanut butter, but not many people seem to, certainly not as many as in the US, where, as i seem to remember, they were always making reference to peanut butter sandwiches on sesamee street. But yeah i've grown up with the stuff. I also like marmite, and i've grown up with that.
Not too sure bout vegemite though, what is it? Whats the difference between it and marmite?

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I do like peanut butter as well but havent tried it with jam.

Vegemite I think is hard to describe but its a bitter and different consistency to marmite.