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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: ZylonBane on November 29, 2002, 01:03:20 pm

Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: ZylonBane on November 29, 2002, 01:03:20 pm
Arr, it's my first pointless poll! I feel so dirty.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Fineus on November 29, 2002, 01:09:00 pm
Bovril owns your Vege****e ;)
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: CP5670 on November 29, 2002, 01:24:31 pm
what is that? I never heard of it... :p
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on November 29, 2002, 01:34:17 pm
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Originally posted by Thunder
Bovril owns your Vege****e ;)


Huzza for Bovril!

Bovril, Bovril,
The one for you and me.
Nice 'n' beefy Bovril,
All stuck up a tree!


I could eat that stuff straight from the jar!
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: diamondgeezer on November 29, 2002, 01:46:48 pm
My mate, Marmite...

(http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/marmite.jpg)
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Knight Templar on November 29, 2002, 01:49:35 pm
riight....


pfff and they say we are proud to be americans because of our freedom...
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: diamondgeezer on November 29, 2002, 01:52:23 pm
No, what we say about americans is too offensive to post here :nod:
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Post by: Knight Templar on November 29, 2002, 01:57:22 pm
I'm talking about the multitudes of comercials about freedoms and proud to be american stuff you see here post 9/11, silly.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on November 29, 2002, 01:58:11 pm
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
No, what we say about americans is too offensive to post here :nod:


Oh so very true. The number of forums I've been banned from...
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: mikhael on November 29, 2002, 04:06:55 pm
Vegemite, Marmite, Parwil and Bovril are all pure, unadulterate, imported straight from the 9th Circle of Hell, autographed by Hitler, hatred.

My wife loves Vegemite. I can't open the jar without feeling an urge to retch. My DOG WILL NOT GO NEAR THE STUFF and he'll eat cat droppings. This is a signifigant indicator, in my opinion.

Drink the Coopers, don't eat the Vegemite.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Blue Lion on November 29, 2002, 06:49:36 pm
What the hell are they?
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Post by: mikhael on November 29, 2002, 06:54:40 pm
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
What the hell are they?


Vegemite and Marmite are both basically the same (though in my experience most brits and some aussies will tell you that Marmite is the better of the two--this is the same as picking between arsenic and strychnine, imho): an extract made from the yeast that is left over after the brewing of beer. In Australia, Vegemite originated with Coopers' Brewery* in (I think) South Australia.

Imagine a salty, brackish purple black slime. Further, imagine a smell not unlike the scent of corpse-rot. Now imagine it congealed, concentrated, jarred and spread on toast with butter. This stuff is purified and fortified evil.

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* My wife informs me that Coopers might be Victorian, and not South Australian. I'm not sure, personally, I'd want to be the city that claimed the origin of this foul venom.
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Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Blue Lion on November 29, 2002, 07:06:53 pm
Is this some kind of torture?
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Post by: ZylonBane on November 29, 2002, 07:42:05 pm
(http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/vegemite.jpg)

Y'know, considering how international the membership here is, I'm genuinely surprised that "Vege-what?" is leading the poll.

Vegemite sandwiches for everyone!
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Post by: diamondgeezer on November 29, 2002, 07:50:17 pm
Right, time to register some alt-nicks and get voting, then :nod:
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Post by: Black Wolf on November 29, 2002, 07:54:16 pm
OK - to represent the views of the people who really know (The Australian Public) I'd like to have my say - Vegemite owns. It is an integral part of our culture as a whole! I have been eating it since I was born, and will continue to eat it until I die. It does everything, sates hunger, cures diseases in cats (I'm not sure which one, but you're supposed to put Vegemite on their paws, they lick it off and then get better), cures headaches (No seriously, try it) and puts the rose in every cheek :D Whenever I go anywhere, it's the first food I pack. When my cousin toured Europe for some school competition, she took the biggest jar she could find and still ran out coz all her friends kept pinching it off her. I have tried and hated the alternatives like Marmite - in fact we had a jar sitting in our pantry for over a year with about 5% gone because nobody would eat it. Vegemite - it's the greatest of man's inventions. :D
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Post by: diamondgeezer on November 29, 2002, 07:57:25 pm
Dude, Vegimite is a Marmite substitue - not the other way around...
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Post by: mikhael on November 29, 2002, 07:58:09 pm
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Originally posted by Blue Lion
Is this some kind of torture?


Its an Australian form of auto-erotic sadomasochism. That's all I can figure. Vegemite fans get off on torturing themselves.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on November 29, 2002, 08:20:15 pm
*slaps ZB*

Bad ZylonBane.... bad! Quit spamming!
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Post by: Shrike on November 29, 2002, 10:00:14 pm
Pure concentrate hate doesn't even begin to describe it.......
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Post by: diamondgeezer on November 30, 2002, 12:02:02 am
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Originally posted by nuclear1
*slaps ZB*


Oh, that was smart. Now Zylon's going to hunt you down and use sarcasm on you. If you're unlucky, he might even deploy the irony...

You best run while you can, friend...
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on November 30, 2002, 03:04:50 am
I tried Marmite once.  It was the single strangest taste experience of my life.  Never before or since have I had one part of my tongue report "By golly, that's not bad!" while simultaneously other parts of my tongue were screaming in the abject horror of a man faced with the malevolent, seething, black power of an ungodly incarnation of evil itself.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: 01010 on November 30, 2002, 03:31:44 am
Marmite Bad.

Vegemite Bad.

Twiglets Good.

Strange that.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on November 30, 2002, 04:29:25 am
It's because Twiglets are Bovril-saturated, not Marmite or Vegemite.

As Thunder said, Bovril OWNS! Bovril can be used for anything, I use it in gravy. It's meant to be a drink, like OXO, but I also use it on toast, or just in a sandwich. or eat it straight from the jar.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on November 30, 2002, 04:33:58 am
HAHA!

Dilute Bovril and put it in a Soda Stream!
Bovril IceCream!
Use Bovril as glue fro broken pots, or as a puncture repair kit!
Woodstaining, anti-vamdal paint.

Oh, the many uses of Bovril.
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Post by: Nick O Tine on November 30, 2002, 04:37:11 am
Or it makes good bottled suntan, or hair dye or gel.

Marmite and vegemite are nasty vegetable based filth. But bovril, liquid beef! A real drink/paste/obscenity.
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Post by: 01010 on November 30, 2002, 04:58:39 am
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Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
It's because Twiglets are Bovril-saturated, not Marmite or Vegemite.

As Thunder said, Bovril OWNS! Bovril can be used for anything, I use it in gravy. It's meant to be a drink, like OXO, but I also use it on toast, or just in a sandwich. or eat it straight from the jar.


Always thought twiglets were yeast extract like Marmite. Ah well, learn something new everyday.

Personally I could never eat anything that has the consistency of something you'd scrape from a heavy smokers lungs.
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: diamondgeezer on November 30, 2002, 05:01:38 am
Says "Marmite" on a Twiglets packet, does it not?
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Post by: Tiara on November 30, 2002, 05:04:30 am
My opinion on this thread -> :blah::ick:blah:
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Post by: Kazashi on November 30, 2002, 05:27:32 am
It's a staple in my diet, I wouldn't get my RDI of whatever vitamins and stuff are listed on the jar without Vegemite. Dare I say that it tastes good too. Another vote for that which is too tough for the rest of the developed world to palate ;)
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Post by: Tar-Palantir on November 30, 2002, 06:04:06 am
I think Marmite (the 'grandfather' of all these 'foods') were thought up as a joke:

'Hey look! We have this half decomposing yeast product. If we mash it up a jar it, we'll make lot of money!'

I voted for the 'pure evil', if you hadn't guessed. :D
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: elorran on December 01, 2002, 12:57:52 am
I'm not that much for marmite, though vegemite is actually okay when I'm in the mood.
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Post by: Tar-Palantir on December 01, 2002, 05:58:08 am
You have my sympathy. :D
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Post by: Reaper on December 01, 2002, 06:31:30 am
It's pure concentrated hate!!! :lol:
It looks evil... i never tasted it... and i never wont
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 01, 2002, 07:54:12 am
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Originally posted by Reaper
i never wont


:wtf:

Are you one of these who says "I'm not doing nothing." thereby implying that you are, indeed, doing something?
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Black Wolf on December 01, 2002, 07:56:46 am
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Originally posted by Reaper
It's pure concentrated hate!!! :lol:
It looks evil... i never tasted it... and i never wont


Ever seen half melted chocolate?
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: diamondgeezer on December 01, 2002, 08:58:41 am
:wtf:... what an odd thing to say...
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Post by: an0n on December 01, 2002, 10:33:22 am
*sings along the Motely Crue's track Girls, Girls, Girls*

Neeouw....Neeouw....Neeouw....Girls, girls, girls.........
Title: Vegemite: Good or Evil?
Post by: Black Wolf on December 01, 2002, 10:44:22 am
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
:wtf:... what an odd thing to say...


May look gross, but it still tastes good :D