Vegemite or Marmite. Whats better?
Neither, they’re both horrid.
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Marmite.
As a kid I loved marmite. Day or night a marmite buttie would have me standing in line.
50 years later I see that the local Edeka stocks marmite. I buy a glass savouring the thought of a marmite buttie, race home, spread M on a B and take a bite……
Then I spend the next 20 minutes scraping the vile muck off my tongue.
Nostalgia isn’t was it used to be.
Vegemite: A balanced potpourri of delicate flavours that harmonise on your tongue.
Marmite: An astringent black goo to be applied in minimal quantities.
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Maple Syrup.
Even since the “love it or hate it” advert campaigns of the 1990s or whenever, and even since “a Marmite thing” has become fairly common usage to describe such a feeling, the vast majority of Marmite eaters completely fail to understand the disgust and revolt it causes in some of us.
To me the thought of eating it is no less disgusting than the though of eating my own excrement. The merest whiff of it (my wife, sadly, still likes it) is enough to get me almost physically gagging. One of the worst possible things to find in your kitchen is when someone has left the Marmite jar out without a lid, or a smeary knife sitting on the bread board. It’s like chemical warfare to me.
I assume that Vegemite is the same although personally I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it.
Isn’t Cenovis about the same? It’s not bad but I never knew how to eat this thing. Maybe it’s tastier if you mix it with butter?
I’ve eaten both Marmite and Vegemite.
I neither love them or hate them.
If I wanted to eat something with such a powerful taste, I’d choose a jar of salted anchovies instead.
For those how haven’t tried Marmite - best eaten spread thinly on hot buttered toast and don’t go easy on the butter.
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Bought Vegemite yesterday in Viadukt Zurich. 10CHF. Its perfect on toast with butter. Nothing healthier than Vege.
I think you’ll find there are plenty of things healthier than Vegemite.
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And many of them may actually be edible.
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Come on guys, de gustibus…
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I’d rather have Twiglets…
I’m repeating myself but Maple Syrup.
I hear one can lube a diesel with both Vegemite and marmite.
I have o idea how Twiglets are! But if Veganite and Marmite are basically the same thing as Cenovis I can have a slice of buttered bread with a bit of this thing and some pickles on top of it.
I too prefer anchovies though…I can eat them just simple, without bread etc. I like salty stuff.
Salty? This proves a theory of mine, that basically marmite-eaters are unable to distinguish the nastiness within. I like salty stuff too, but there’s no way my taste-buds have any capacity to detect salt, or anything else for that matter, once they’ve been exposed to the brown stuff.
Oh, and twiglets are evil. Typically in a bowl at a party, alongside others with a variety of crisps, nuts and other snacks, cunningly disguised, and with only just enough marmite that you’ll have started to chew them before you notice it, so you’re frantically running for the toilet or looking for a paper napkin to discreetly spit it all out into, plus a really strong drink to rinse it all away.
Brown stuff is just yeast with some condiments if you ask me, it’s not even that salty (if we speak about Cenovis, but I assume it’s probably very similar to the other two). If you liked to taste bread dough made with fresh yeast when you were a child, then you’d probably like the brown stuff too… Or maybe a better comparison: it’s like a beer essence. 
I don’t think salty is the main attribute here, it’s more like that taste of a bread dough only much, much more intense/concentrated.
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Like I said, there is another taste entirely, one that you’re evidently immune to.