Who Doesnt Like Vegemite ?

[Muffy]

oh i forgot about promite!!!! i love that too!!!

[Phteven]

I'm not Australian born (although I did have an Australian mother) and don't mind the odd slice of toast with vegemite.
We always have it in the house but one small bottle will last us a year.

[Phteven]

I'm not Australian born (although I did have an Australian mother) and don't mind the odd slice of toast with vegemite.
We always have it in the house but one small bottle will last us a year.

[SophieRose]

Dp and i have the exact same fight in the shopping centre every month, on whether we'll buy vegemite or promite. (DP- "At $6 a jar i'm only buying one!") (although i always throw my jar in anyway.

I HATE vegemite. I'm Aussie born and bred and i have never been able to eat it, it's horrible.
Promite on piping hot toast smothered with butter though, mmmmmmmmm.

DP, LOVES vegemite. And i think he's a freak. If my son ends up liking vegemite i'm making him get brain altering shock therapy. Lol (of course i'm joking, but i won't be happy cause that'll mean DP will win)(we bet on everything with eachother)

[TwinsMummy]

wwwwoooooooooowwwww i can believe how many australians hate vegemite i didnt think one australian hated it but it seems like not many girls on here love it as much as me i must be weird hahaha i also love tomato sauce If theres any other very australian food that anyone can think of that they love please let me know id love to here what you grew up with and still love??

[Phteven]

kangaroo?

[TwinsMummy]

oh my dad got me to try that when i was younger.I thought it was horrible.

[Life is Good]

We quite enjoy kangaroo I think the secret it to keep it really rare (so not an option while I am UTD unfortunately!), otherwise it is sooo tough and chewy. We get the garlic 'roo steaks from Woolies - super cheap and great for the bbq

How about mushy peas on pies?!! Love that too - had it over the weekend, actually!

[{sarah}]

If theres any other very australian food that anyone can think of that they love please let me know id love to here what you grew up with and still love??

Fairy Bread!! I read this a while ago & think it's classic!

OK, so here's the story..... something that I, like may other Aussies have grown up with is the simple idea of taking buttered bread and sprinkling it with either multi-coloured Hundreds & Thousands, or multi-coloured Sprinkles.

So we move to the UK, are in temporary accommodation and Miss 5-almost-6 is about to have a birthday. Hmmm, we need something simple and easy for her classmates to share with her on this auspicious occasion that requires no cooking due to lack of cooking equipment, and won't cost a fortune, especially with the conversion rate.

AH-HA! She cries, 'fairy bread will cover the situation nicely!"

But being a new school and culture will they allow treats to be brought in. So the teacher is approached with the simple request of bringing in fairy bread. "Fairy bread???", "Never heard of it!"

I, thinking as with so many other things, imagine that the brits must just have another name for it, just like how OMO is called Persil, Kleenex toilet paper is Andrex and set-top boxes are called digi-boxes, and begin to explain.......

"I know what 100's & 1000's are......but as to the rest...? But it sounds yummy, so go right ahead!"

So I prepare for the miraculous miracle of making fairy bread, thinking to myself the teacher will either be disappointed in the results having imagined something much more creative, or will simply turn around with "Oh THAT - We call that xxxx here!"

Finally 3 grocery shops later I find 100's & 1000's and "sugar strands" (sprinkles for us Aussies) and the rest takes it's natural course with a nice, freshly cleansed kitchen becoming a field of minute, sugary land mines, but then voila, the finished result, all laid out on a nice foil dish (something I would surely have forgotten if I hadn't accidentally seen one).

So off we trot to school, fairybread in hand, and to my amazement the teacher is impressed and has never seen anything like it. "But it's such a simple idea....!" I stammer, thinking she's having me on, or as my husband thinks, pitying to poor, demented Australian girl, but no, she genuinely hasn't ever come across it before. "It must be a cultural dish" she says.
"Well, it might be..." I reply, "..but no-one's ever pointed that out to me before...."

So the humble fairy bread, a 'cultural' Australian delicacy? Who would have thought it!

Does this mean that if any multicultural days are held at school where you bring in your national dish, I can get away with a loaf of pre-sliced bread and some prettiliy coloured balls of sugar???

And I too am a Vegemite lover

[TwinsMummy]

Love musshy peas and pies and fairy bread the best