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[Reelya]

Vegemite is good. But don't be tricked into eating a lot at once. You butter toast, then put a tiny dab (about the size of a pinky fingernail) of it on the end of the knife, then spread it thinly into the butter.

Much fun is getting people who don't know anything to eat pure vegemite, or put it on thick. But ... that's equivalent to saying "I've heard salt's good! I'll try some" then trying to eat a tablespoon of salt. Clearly, you're not gonna go well with that. It's like anything else that's meant to be used sparingly - horrible if you have a lot of it at once.

The British have the same stuff basically - marmite. And there's another one call promite. Which all i can say is it's "sugary vegemite" and absolutely disgusting.

Here's Hugh Jackman preparing vegemite toast for Americans. They are scared as shit then suprised when it tastes good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_sUhTWtvG4

[NJW2000]

Vegemite's better, though the UK generally just has marmite, sadly. Have to try Promite if I ever see any. Name sounds a bit like a complex plastic than a food though.

[Reelya]

... And there's a trademark battle between OzEmite and aussieMite.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/ozemite-wins-battle-of-the-patriotic-spreads-20160813-gqrsxv.html

(Actually I'm not really surprised that the Americans in that segment are positively surprised by vegemite on toast - when made properly. Those people wolf down fluffernutters and the like, and put spray-can cheese on stuff. They can eat anything).

[Hanslanda]

1. Yes we can. Deep fried butter is a thing we have here that violates the laws of physics and is a culinary abomination.

2. What the actual fuck are fluffernutters?

[pisskop]

peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches.


Im partial to toasted peanut butter and banana sandwiches myself though.  Too much sugar in fluffernutters.

[Hanslanda]

peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches.

That sounds like it would be good deep fried.

[Reelya]

Fluffernutters are a New England / Massachusetts thing. You get Fluff spreadable marshmallow, layer that thick on a piece of bread, then slather peanut butter thick on another piece. Then cram that together, and you have a fluffernutter.

There was actually a political dispute about these. One local politician discovered his grade-school kids were being fed these every day at school. He got upset and promoted a bill limiting the amount of these the school's serve to weekly instead of daily. This outraged local republicans, and they promoted a counter-bill that would make the fluffernutter the official state sandwich. I'm not kidding.

[Hanslanda]

I don't eat much sweets but that sounds alright. I prefer turf'n'turf. Steak wrapped in bacon.

[TD1]

.....

Wait, that actually happens?

Now how to release a suitable number of them in Newry....

Man, and I had just put my Armalite back in its hiding place. You're really not making things easy for me.

The joke's getting a tad old, isn't it? If I'm getting on your nerves, please do tell me.

No nerve-getting here. Besides, it's not that hard to find your Armalite. I take it you hide it in a ballot box, right?

[Helgoland]

Naah, the Spanish police would take it away.

[martinuzz]

My dad used to eat Marmite on his bread. I believe he learned to eat in his early youth. With him being born in the hunger winter of 1945, I believe British troops handed out Marmite to Dutch families with starving young kids, to help combat vitamin deficiencies (B complex in the case of Marmite). I never liked it as a kid, but I should try it again sometime. Dutch supermarkets sell Marmite (and have been selling it for as long as I can remember). I do like special beers, so trying the yeast seems appropriate.

EDIT: With the failure of Market Garden, the north of the Netherlands was liberated later than the south, and suffered great famine in the winter of 1944-45.
When they were finally liberated, allied troops encountered people that looked as emaciated as those liberated from the concentration camps in the East. People had been eating candles, grass, and tulip bulbs in a desparate effort to survive. If they were lucky, they could get some cattle fodder beets. An estimated 22000 people died of hunger during that winter.

[Avarice]

VEGIMITE!
Yeah its smother than Mar. Get some potato chips and butter the bread then put a little bit of that black crap on it. Chur my bro.
I put it in my sauces and gravys.

peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches.

That sounds like it would be good deep fried.

Everything is good deep fried.

[Reudh]

My dad used to eat Marmite on his bread. I believe he learned to eat in his early youth. With him being born in the hunger winter of 1945, I believe British troops handed out Marmite to Dutch families with starving young kids, to help combat vitamin deficiencies (B complex in the case of Marmite). I never liked it as a kid, but I should try it again sometime. Dutch supermarkets sell Marmite (and have been selling it for as long as I can remember). I do like special beers, so trying the yeast seems appropriate.

EDIT: With the failure of Market Garden, the north of the Netherlands was liberated later than the south, and suffered great famine in the winter of 1944-45.
When they were finally liberated, allied troops encountered people that looked as emaciated as those liberated from the concentration camps in the East. People had been eating candles, grass, and tulip bulbs in a desparate effort to survive. If they were lucky, they could get some cattle fodder beets. An estimated 22000 people died of hunger during that winter.

Yeah, my family are from the North and eventually emigrated after the hunger winter. My Oma told me a story about having to drink ox blood and eat grass while she was pregnant to try and stave off anaemia and malnutrition.

[wierd]

Depending on the grass, the roots and young shoots can be steamed, and are quite nutritious, if a bit fibrous. Adult grass, not so much, unless you can digest cellulose like a cow or goat.

[Rose]

My neighbor ran into me on a random irc channel.