SC - Re:the top 8 icks list

[Elaine Koogler]

Don't let anybody kid you.  It's nasty, nasty stuff and should be banned from
everywhere!  It has a strong "dark brown" taste that is really icky.  I would give
it a perfect 5 on the "ick" scale others have used elsewhere!  And yes, I did get
some elsewhere than the US...I lived in Papua New Guinea, and tried some there!

Kiri

CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/30/00 9:33:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> lorix at trump.net.au writes:
>
> > > What on earth is vegemite?
> >
> >  Vegemite is an Australian institution!!!
> >
> >  Basically it is a spread for bread, toast or whatever else you feel like
> > putting
> >  it on.  It *looks* (to the unsuspecting) like a chocolate spread, it tastes
> >  (mainly) of salt!
> >
> >  If you took a vegetable stock cube, added a smidgen of water, your come
> > close to
> >  its taste ;-)
> >
> >  Lorix
>
> If I'm not mistaken, it is the cooked and highly salted trub gleaned after
> brewing beer.  Essentially, yeast and malt extracts and such.  My brother in
> law is from Sydney, so we had to find a source for it here in the states
> (still no source for Vic Bitters, though).  Turns out KRAFT makes it, and you
> can buy it in most grocery stores.
>
> Try baking some cupcakes and frosting them with the stuff, and then see if
> you can make it out the door before your guests kill you...  It's a great
> little game I like to play...
>
> Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
> Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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