You can buy this foul tasting ,nasty looking  bit of Ozzie history
here in the States.  If you have an inquiring mind try a place like Cost
Plus, Pier 1 Imports or (if you live California )  Trader Joes. They all
carry this stuff, and they are welcome to it.

    DrRufo
SOCal-81 vanagon

Malcolm Stebbins wrote:

> Joel:  It is a  paste that one puts on bread or crackers that is the
> consistency of peanut butter, the color of chocolate (with a bit of
> red) and (to the north American palette) is foul tasting. It is an
> animal extract with what tastes like huge amounts of salt in it.
>
> If you want to get an idea of the taste, put an "Oxo" cube in your
> mouth!!  That is about as close as I can describe it to a North
> American.
>
> Popular in Aust. and maybe UK.
>
> I lived in Tasmania for two years and never got use to it.  It IS an
> acquired taste.
>
> Maybe someone from Aust. can send Joel a bit of it.
>
> > but what the heck is Vegemite!!!?????
> >
> > inquiring old farts want to know! :)
> >