Comments on: Rite of Passage: Eating Vegemite in Australia http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: vegemitelover http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-154586 vegemitelover Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:41:12 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-154586 We're happy little vegemites As bright as bright can be We all enjoy our Vegemite For breakfast lunch and tea Our mummies sau we're growing stronger every single week Because we love our Vegemite We all adore our Vegemite It puts a rose in every cheeeeeeeek!! I know it off by heart :) gotta love the aussie spirit (i'm australian) ooh and eat vegemite on toast and then wash it down with a nice cup of milo or chocolate milk mmmm We’re happy little vegemites
As bright as bright can be
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast lunch and tea
Our mummies sau we’re growing stronger
every single week
Because we love our Vegemite
We all adore our Vegemite
It puts a rose
in every cheeeeeeeek!!

I know it off by heart :)
gotta love the aussie spirit (i’m australian) ooh and eat vegemite on toast and then wash it down with a nice cup of milo or chocolate milk mmmm

]]> By: lisa` http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-10808 lisa` Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:44:48 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-10808 vegemite is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yuck how can u eat man just ewwwwwww i hate vegggggeeeeee miteeeeee well f u lyk it den is totally lyk ur choice so ya vegemite is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yuck how can u eat man just ewwwwwww
i hate vegggggeeeeee miteeeeee well f u lyk it den is totally lyk ur choice so ya

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]]> By: Emma http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-2099 Emma Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:31:57 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-2099 Great article. But I don't agree on one point. Quote - Do not eat Vegemite by itself. It is not a sweet snack to be surreptitiously scooped from the jar. If you do, you will absolutely regret it. As will your oesophagus lining. WRONG. I eat vegemite straight out of the jar, as do many of my friends. It's just what you do, get home from school, put a thick layering of it on crackers (ones with the holes so you can make worms:)) with cheese or get a spoon and eat a couple of mouthfuls straight out of the jar before afterschool sport. It might just be my town... I don't know. :) Great article. But I don’t agree on one point.

Quote – Do not eat Vegemite by itself. It is not a sweet snack to be surreptitiously scooped from the jar. If you do, you will absolutely regret it. As will your oesophagus lining.

WRONG. I eat vegemite straight out of the jar, as do many of my friends. It’s just what you do, get home from school, put a thick layering of it on crackers (ones with the holes so you can make worms:)) with cheese or get a spoon and eat a couple of mouthfuls straight out of the jar before afterschool sport.

It might just be my town… I don’t know. :)

]]> By: Nat http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Nat Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:18:32 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-982 Olive, totally agree with you 100%. Many nights we have spent together stumbling home, popping on the kettle and making the traditional dish - vege toast! Definitely need a thick layer of butter to make some sort of paste with the vege - you simply cannot consume without it. Olive, totally agree with you 100%.
Many nights we have spent together stumbling home, popping on the kettle and making the traditional dish – vege toast!

Definitely need a thick layer of butter to make some sort of paste with the vege – you simply cannot consume without it.

]]> By: JoolzGirl http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-980 JoolzGirl Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:12:35 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-980 For me, I think more butter than vegemite on the toast is preferable. Bush cooks put it in their soups and stews too. And I like PROMITE BETTER! Haha! For me, I think more butter than vegemite on the toast is preferable. Bush cooks put it in their soups and stews too. And I like PROMITE BETTER! Haha!

]]> By: Brian http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-118 Brian Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:00:27 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-118 There is so much that can be written about our National dish and how to actually consume it... if it floats your boat the way you eat it, that is enough. I have never seen the medicinal uses for Vegemite written about. Whilst in Pushkar, India (1981) I met up with an English guy...he happened to have contracted amoebic dysentery prior to leaving Nepal. I nursed him for a week but he was dying...we needed to get him out of there. He was too weak to travel, having not eaten for a week. He said I'd love to try eat something, but couldn't stomach the thought of local tucker. I had one teaspoon of the black gold left in my jar... I just added boiled water. Next morning we were able to get him to Jaipur and fly him home to England...I truly believe it saved his life. oh yeah I'm a 'Boomer' not a 'Y' There is so much that can be written about our National dish and how to actually consume it… if it floats your boat the way you eat it, that is enough.
I have never seen the medicinal uses for Vegemite written about.

Whilst in Pushkar, India (1981) I met up with an English guy…he happened to have contracted amoebic dysentery prior to leaving Nepal. I nursed him for a week but he was dying…we needed to get him out of there.
He was too weak to travel, having not eaten for a week. He said I’d love to try eat something, but couldn’t stomach the thought of local tucker. I had one teaspoon of the black gold left in my jar… I just added boiled water.
Next morning we were able to get him to Jaipur and fly him home to England…I truly believe it saved his life.

oh yeah I’m a ‘Boomer’ not a ‘Y’

]]> By: Trix http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Trix Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:24:10 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-103 Livvy - couple more ways to consume the National Treasure (Vegemite) below: 1. Buy Weet-Bix, resist temptation to immediately add milk, halve Weet-Bix length ways, spread margarine/butter onto Weet-Bix, cover with Vegemite. Best consumed with a glass of Milo. Oi Oi Oi. 2. "It is not a sweet snack to be surreptitiously scooped from the jar" - This does work a treat if you are doing Absinth or Tequila shots sans salt and lemons.... Livvy – couple more ways to consume the National Treasure (Vegemite) below:

1. Buy Weet-Bix, resist temptation to immediately add milk, halve Weet-Bix length ways, spread margarine/butter onto Weet-Bix, cover with Vegemite. Best consumed with a glass of Milo. Oi Oi Oi.

2. “It is not a sweet snack to be surreptitiously scooped from the jar” – This does work a treat if you are doing Absinth or Tequila shots sans salt and lemons….

]]> By: Samuel Webster http://www.trespassmag.com/rites-of-passage-eating-vegemite-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Samuel Webster Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:33:15 +0000 http://www.trespassmag.com/?p=280#comment-72 Olivia - I agree with all of this bar the butter comment. A large helping of butter is not necessarily a requirement, and should not be a thick layer as you suggest. On hot toast, a lot of butter is fine, but to mix too much butter with vegemite is a bit of a sin. There should always be equal butter to vegemite, methinks. And vegemite quantity should be a thin layer that covers from edge to edge, unless eaten in a sandwich where you can use more, particularly if cheese is included. Olivia – I agree with all of this bar the butter comment. A large helping of butter is not necessarily a requirement, and should not be a thick layer as you suggest. On hot toast, a lot of butter is fine, but to mix too much butter with vegemite is a bit of a sin.

There should always be equal butter to vegemite, methinks. And vegemite quantity should be a thin layer that covers from edge to edge, unless eaten in a sandwich where you can use more, particularly if cheese is included.

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