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Do you happen to know the difference between marmite and vegemite?
by dfxm12 5y ago
Do you happen to know the difference between marmite and vegemite?
- hilbert42 5y agoYes, but its hard to expalin unless you've tasted both. Here are brief Wiki extracts: "Marmite is a brand of savoury food spread from the United Kingdom, based on yeast extract invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig. It is made from by-products of beer brewing (see Lees (fermentation)) and is currently produced by British company Unilever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite ..." "Vegemite is a thick, dark brown Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne, Victoria in 1922. ..." A spread for sandwiches, toast, crumpets and cracker biscuits as well as a filling for pastries, Vegemite is similar to British Marmite, New Zealand Marmite, Australian Promite, MightyMite, AussieMite, OzEmite, German Vitam-R, and Swiss Cenovis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite." Special note to Americans: Vegemite is owned by Kraft, a US multinational. So you're to blame for foisting it on the world!
- classichasclass 5y agoNot anymore. Bega bought Vegemite from Mondelez, so it's Aussie through and through again.
- hilbert42 5y agoOK, right. Thanks. So the label on my jar is out of date. That's one for books, but as far as I recall Kraft was there from the outset in the 1920s (so it was really always US-owned until recently). Edit: just checked the low-salt version (both are used here—it's the smaller jar) and the label is different. Never noticed that until now.