Maybe Vegemite (sp?) goes with a good Australian beer- you know how it can
be, when you hated food as a kid, but when you started drinking, your
tastes began to broaden. Maybe you just need to be fried out like your
combi in order to appreciate the stuff.

Then again, I need to face my own heritage. Wurst? Braunschweiger? How
much Dutch and German beer do you need to really like that stuff???????

Best regards,
Sam

P.S. I would love to find out what American meat products are disgusting
to Europeans and Australians. Beef jerky might be one. I doubt that a
T-bone steak or baby-back ribs would be considered awful, though. Who
knows?

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ray Hunnam wrote:

> Amen to that folk's
>
> I hate the bloody stuff.  My best description is that it resembles tar,
> is very very salty, and definitely an acquired taste.  They have been
> trying to force it down my throat for the past 50 years and I do say
> without any luck.  All I can say is that the wife and kids love it.
>
> Ray.
>
> P.S.   It's a beef extract actually.
>
>
> David Marshall wrote:
>
> > I always thought that it was a yeast extract.
> >
> > At 15:15 10/18/98 -0400, 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! :)
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
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