Vegemite Museum?
Ahh, the wonders of Vegemite. To the uninitiated, and if you are, thank your lucky stars, Vegemite is a sandwich spread, a toast topper, a floor wax and a bathroom caulk. Well, not actually the last two, but it definitely is something that the average Australian can be found most mornings spreading on their toast.
Vegemite is fairly simple to describe. It's black, gunky with a taste that is intensely salty and yeasty and bittery. It's the kind of thing that makes people who taste it for the first time rush to the sink and try and salvage their taste buds by pressure rinsing with the hottest tap water imaginable. I loved this stuff as a kid living Down Under. I ate it on toast. I ate it on white bread sandwiches. I ate it smeared on anything that didn't wiggle too much. It was glorious! Vegemite, interesting enough, is the answer to the question - what do you do with all that leftover brewer's yeast extract after you've finished making beer? You add some vegetable protein and spices and voila! Vegemite!
Some decades later I had the opportunity to try Vegemite again and it was awful. Really, really awful. I mean, it was so bad that I briefly envisioned a time where I might never want to eat again. It passed in a couple of minutes but the memory lingers.
So imagine my surprise when Jaunted mentioned that there was some discussion about building a museum dedicated to the wondrous spread in
One additional factoid is that the Vegemite brand is owned by Kraft Foods. So far they have been pretty much completely incapable of getting Americans to eat the stuff. Which is kind of amazing when you think about it, since we will eat hot dogs in mass quantities for instance, and god knows what's inside of those.
