Anyone remember Moxie?

--imm

drink that horrid stuff and so did my brother. Yuk!

thinking about that video yesterday. It's funny, thanks for posting it.

But not Vegemite.

I love my Vegemite on a slice of bread and butter, like my mum gave me when I was a kid.

Yum!

but I don't know any of my fellow Aussies who eat it with a spoon. It's spread THIN on bread, not eaten with a spoon.

I used it back east in the US to add flavor to vegetarian sauces and gravies. It worked very well for that, diluted and thickened, meat eaters always thought they were eating meat and I never set them straight.

Out west, it's hard to find so I use Marmite the same way.

I can't imagine trying to eat it by the spoonful. Yuck.

I certainly prefer Marmite, although if you loathe Marmite or Vegemite the chances are you will also loathe the other one.

I wouldn't eat either one by the spoonful.

I'd rather live.

I never ate Marmite when I lived in England, so I can't say what it's like. Loyalty, I guess.

Or maybe Vegemite really is better.

It's whats for breakfast!

When I lived in Oz, I loved Lamingtons. My family had a restaurant but we didn't make them in the restaurant kitchen; we got them from the local bakery. Yum. Although there are loads of recipes on the internet, I've never attempted to make Lamingtons at home.

"A lamington is a dessert of Australian origin. It consists of squares of sponge cake coated first in a layer of traditionally chocolate sauce, then in desiccated coconut." Wikipedia

In Oz, we ate Vegemite on bread with butter and a huge amount of lettuce. It was the only way to make it palatable.

I also remember liking meat pies, essentially a street food purchased often at walk-up counters and eaten out of hand. Their cherry pies were a shock -- they left the pits in.