Vegemite ban in the USA.....

[Kaylan-R]

I never liked Promite or Marmite...yet I love vegemite. It's so wierd. What's the difference?

[MajiKat]

not sure - they're both festy (sorry to those fans out there but they are!)

i always found one of them too salty. i know vegemite is salty, but its kind of sweet aswell (or that just my weird taste buds?)

[Elspeth]

Apparently, it turns out the article about the US banning Vegemite may have been a hoax.

US Govt. denies it's banned Vegemite

[Dark One]

mysterikat said:

oooo i hate marmite! and promite!

whenever we'd go to my nan and pops, they'd have a special jar of vegemite just for us. pop was a brit, so he loved his fakeymite spreads...(sorry british ppl's, but vegemite wins hands down)

by the way - whcih one is British - promite or marmite?

Marmite is the British one. I've never heard of Promite.

I guess its all down to individual taste. I like Marmite, but i'm not as keen on Vegimite

[Lucy]

I've never tried Vegemite...surely there can't be that much difference? I may have to conduct some kind of taste test (I'm sure it would be an afternoon well spent
People who like marmite: do you have butter with it, like, if you're having it on toast or something?

[Dark One]

Butter?? Good god woman! You can't have butter with marmite!

[Lucy]

I KNOW!
But I watched a Nigella Lawson show once where she mixed butter and marmite together to make sandwiches. Apparently it cut the time down of having to but both on separately. It was the yuckiest thing I've ever seen her do. So, I just wondered if I was in the minority or majority of thinking that mixing is wrong

[Dark One]

i think we're both in the majority of thinking that mixing is wrong. I guess we'll probably have to wait and see what the others say though

[Swallow]

They used to sell cheese mixed with vegemite here... and that was a bit of a yick pairing, i love my vegemite and cheese, but seperately. Some reason when they sold the vegemite cheese slices it wasn't quite right.

Marmite is just... wrong. Just plain wrong. And i think it purely comes down to vegemite being fantastic with butter. *hugs her vegemite*

and it's a good thing it was a hyped up response. I don't think i could handle travelling around America without my vegemite.... okay, taking it a bit too far, but i know i would be missing it sorely.

Anyway, I love Pratchett's explanation of vegemite. It's just so revolting that you keep going back to make sure it really does taste like that

[Cookie Lover]

Yeah, gotta love any Pratchett quotes. But vegemite with butter??? Ick. It's fine on its own. In large amounts.

[Squirt]

I eat my Vegemite with butter on toast but if it's on a sandwich (is that spelt right? It looks all wrong!) then I have it on its own. I thought nearly everyone ate butter with Vegemite? Even the thought of Marmite or Promite makes me feel ill.

[Dark One]

I've tried Marmite and Peanut Butter on toast before. It tastes suprisingly good!

[LinJa]

I have tried vegemite and my taste buds rejected it, sorry to say, but I know the vegemite song very well! ^_^

I like peanut butter and nutella.
Why is it called peanut BUTTER?
Do they have actual butter mixed in with the peanuts?

I like my bread (single slice) with butter/margerine on first and peanut butter on top.

Peanut butter and celery - eck - not cool for me.
It's like two extreme tastes!

But yes, ridiculous ban!

Lots of countries have ridiculous bans (and fines that come with it)

[Dark One]

This site should tell you more about peanut butter:

www.peanutbutterlovers.com/history/index.html

[Lucy]

Wow, I'm loving that site! Especially this para:

"In 1903, Dr. George Washington Carver began his peanut research at Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama. While peanut butter had already been developed by then, Dr. Carver developed more than 300 other uses for peanuts and so improved peanut horticulture that he is considered by many to be the father of the peanut industry. " ;D

LinJa, peanut butter and chocolate spread is amaaazing! I'm so pleased to find someone other than myself who can tolerate such an insane number of calories in one sandwich/on toast Yummy.

I can't handle peanut butter and butter though...that's a bit of a butter overload.

It seems all spread threads (ha!) everntually turn to peanut butter. On another forum I regularly visit we had a jam thread, which now seems to have turned it's attention to peanut butter. It just proves how marvellous it is, I suppose!

[Dark One]

Lucy, do you remember ready mixed peanut butter and chocolate spread? It had a yellow lid and a yellow and brown striped label. It was made by the same people that made all the other Sun Pat peanut butter brands.

I can't stand having butter with my peanut butter!

[Lucy]

Yup, I remember that, DO! It just didn't taste as good as when you put it on separately yourself though. D'you remember when MilkyWay brought out a similar thing but it was chocolate spread and white chocolate spread swirled together? Horribly sickly...

[Dark One]

Yes, that was very sickly! God knows why they thought people would like that stuff!

[Lauren Hedgehog]

I liked it But then, I've always liked my chocolate I've always liked peanut butter and honey and my Mum eats peanut butter and tomato sandwiches But vegemite is still my favourite on toast for breakfast